Comparison

Runestone Text Editor vs ComfyUInator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Runestone Text Editor

A powerful plain text and code editor for iPhone and iPad. Offers syntax highlighting, line numbers, find and replace, and extensive customization options for developers and writers.

Highlights
  • Syntax highlighting for many languages
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Advanced find and replace
  • Line numbers and cursor location
  • Code formatting with Prettier.js
  • Multiple windows on iPad
Features
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A plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more. It's like TextEdit but more powerful and optimised for iPhone and iPad. Runestone is made by a single person with a love for text editors and a vision of building the most lightweight text editor for iPhone and iPad that still has the core features for editing code. Features: - Syntax highlighting of many languages including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP, YAML, and many more. - Select one of the twelve standard themes including popular themes like Tomorrow, Dracula, Solarized, and One Dark Pro. - Innovative find and replace for searching and modifying text while still viewing your file. - Choose font and font size, including support for custom fonts imported using another third-party app. - Show the line and column the cursor is located on. - Uses the standard document browser for an experience similar to the Files app. - Quickly navigate to a specific line. - Automatically close opening brackets and quotes. - Multiple windows on the iPad. - Format code using Prettier.js. Supported languages include CSS,HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP and more. - Choose text encoding between popular encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more. - Enable or disable autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation. - Set default file extension of new files. - Open files in Runestone from the Share Sheet. - Print documents. Premium features: - Choose between eight app icons. - Show line numbers. - Highlight the selected line. - Increase line height and letter spacing. - Disable line wrapping to allow horizontal scrolling. - Show tabs, spaces, and line breaks using a selected symbol. - Enable page guide at a specific column to easily tell when lines are getting too long. - Add vertical and horizontal overscroll. - Remember the selected language per file. - Save file extensions and filenames that should always be treated as plain text files. - Enable soft tabs and choose the width of the tab character. - Specify whether pressing the tab key should insert a tab or indent the line. - Adjust the scaling of Markdown headings and disable highlighting of code blocks in Markdown. Runestone was built on the open-source framework with the same name. Find more information on the Runestone framework at github.com/simonbs/runestone

About

ComfyUInator

This app acts as a client for ComfyUI, allowing you to generate images from text prompts. It requires a ComfyUI installation on a server and configuration of your server's IP address, port, and token. You can then upload and use your saved workflows to create images.

Highlights
  • Connect to ComfyUI server
  • Configure server IP, port, and token
  • Upload and manage workflows
  • Generate images from text prompts
  • iOS client for ComfyUI
Features
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The definitive client for ComfyUI. To use this app you need a ComfyUI installed and running on some server, of which you must know the IP or domain and port of installation. You must add that IP / domain and port in the configuration of this app, as well as the token in case ComfyUI is password protected on the server using the ComfyUI Login node. Then, you must save the JSON of the workflows you want to use from the application from ComfyUI and you must upload them in the document directory of this iOS application. From there you can load them in the workflows tab and use them to generate images from text prompts. Important: this application does not generate images by itself. It is a client to communicate with a server with a running ComfyUI instance.

Screenshots

Runestone Text Editor4 screens
ComfyUInator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Runestone Text Editor at 76% against ComfyUInator's 0%. Runestone Text Editor also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.7 vs 1.0). ComfyUInator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Runestone Text Editor is free to download; ComfyUInator costs $1.99 up front. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ComfyUInator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Runestone Text Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Runestone Text Editor has 2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Runestone Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 0% of ComfyUInator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, ComfyUInator every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Runestone Text Editor versus ComfyUInator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunestone Text EditorComfyUInator
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (2K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#38 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringTheCoolBytes

Customer experience

Runestone Text Editor

All ratings1,962 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews353 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative14.2%

ComfyUInator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Runestone Text Editor

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Disappearing files
  • Difficulty pasting text
  • Scroll position not saved
  • Hangs on startup
  • Trouble opening large files
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  • Issues after iOS updates

Requested features

6 requests
  • Markdown preview
  • Code folding
  • Syntax highlighting for more languages
  • Ability to run/execute code
  • Multiple file/window support
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  • Improved undo/redo functionality

ComfyUInator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99
None

ComfyUInator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runestone Text Editor free?
Runestone Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ComfyUInator free?
ComfyUInator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Runestone Text Editor or ComfyUInator?
Runestone Text Editor is rated higher. Runestone Text Editor averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while ComfyUInator averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Runestone Text Editor or ComfyUInator have ads?
Neither Runestone Text Editor nor ComfyUInator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runestone Text Editor or ComfyUInator?
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, and ComfyUInator every 4 days. Most recently, Runestone Text Editor was updated on October 12, 2026 and ComfyUInator on October 7, 2026.

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