Comparison

Runestone Text Editor vs DowntimeTruth

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

DowntimeTruth

Receive instant alerts when your website experiences downtime and when it becomes accessible again. This tool allows you to continuously monitor the uptime of any website directly from your mobile device. Schedule checks to ensure constant vigilance over your online presence.

Highlights
  • Instant downtime notifications
  • Recovery alerts
  • Track any website's uptime
  • Scheduled checks
  • Continuous monitoring
  • iOS compatible
Features
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Get notified the instant your website goes down and when it comes back online. Track any website's downtime! No excuses! Track the uptime of any of your websites using IOS! Schedule checks for continuous monitoring ! For Terms of Use: https://schma052.github.io/PrivacyPolicy/

Screenshots

Runestone Text Editor4 screens
DowntimeTruth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Runestone Text Editor at 2K against DowntimeTruth's 1. Runestone Text Editor also leads on chart position (#30 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). DowntimeTruth's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DowntimeTruth sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DowntimeTruth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, DowntimeTruth every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Runestone Text Editor versus DowntimeTruth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunestone Text EditorDowntimeTruth
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#30 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringMatthew Schorr

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

DowntimeTruth

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99
1 purchases

DowntimeTruth

Subscriptions1
  • DowntimeTruth Pro$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Runestone Text Editor free?
Runestone Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DowntimeTruth free?
DowntimeTruth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Runestone Text Editor or DowntimeTruth?
DowntimeTruth is rated higher. Runestone Text Editor averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while DowntimeTruth averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Runestone Text Editor or DowntimeTruth have ads?
Neither Runestone Text Editor nor DowntimeTruth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runestone Text Editor or DowntimeTruth?
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, and DowntimeTruth every 6 days. Most recently, Runestone Text Editor was updated on October 16, 2026 and DowntimeTruth on October 5, 2026.

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