Runestone Text Editor vs D1Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
D1Explorer
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D1Explorer is a native Cloudflare D1 client for iPhone and iPad that backs up before it writes. Browse, query and edit your databases, with cost projection and Time Travel restore. FREE TO DOWNLOAD Download D1Explorer free and connect unlimited Cloudflare D1 databases. Browse tables, run SELECT queries, inspect schema and preview BLOB/JSON cells. No account, no trial timer, no read limits. Unlock D1Explorer Pro with a one-time in-app purchase for every write feature: row inserts, updates and deletes, inline cell editing, table and column changes, and DML/DDL in the query editor. Pro also unlocks the Recovery Center, the Query Notebook, and Cost & Budget's projections and Advisor. Pay once, no subscription, and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. KEY FEATURES • Editable Data Grid — Tap a cell to edit it, add rows, then discard or commit. Pending edits are shown as the SQL they will run before anything runs, and a remote database asks once more before it is written to. • Recovery Center (Pro) — Back up before you write. "Export Snapshot" runs Cloudflare's official export, a .sql dump preserving BLOBs byte-for-byte. Time Travel rolls a D1 database back to any point in its retention window, backing up first. • Cost & Budget — Know what a database costs before the invoice arrives. Month-to-date spend on the three axes D1 bills, rows read, rows written and stored bytes, with the billable part separated. Free, including the sidebar figure on each database. Pro adds a month-end projection, a monthly budget, and an Advisor that ranks the query shapes reading the most rows, suggests a fix where the numbers support one, and copies out as Markdown. • Draft SQL & Query Editor — Describe what you want, as in "active pro users, newest first", and Apple Intelligence turns it into a SELECT you can read and edit before you run it. Or write SQL by hand. Free. • Sign in with Cloudflare — Connect without making an API token. Approve D1Explorer once on Cloudflare's own screen, decide there whether it gets write access and usage analytics, and withdraw it whenever you like. Free. • Connection Doctor — Ask a connection what it can actually do. It checks the token, this database, and the permissions behind editing, exporting, restoring and cost analytics, then names the one you are missing instead of an HTTP status. Free. • iCloud Sync — Connections follow you between your devices. Only what identifies a database travels; credentials sync separately through end-to-end encrypted iCloud Keychain. • Query Notebook (Pro) — Never lose the query that fixed production. Save named snippets and keep a per-connection history of everything you've run, failures included, each labelled READ or WRITE. • Performance Insights — Execution time and rows read per statement, plus which D1 datacenter answered and whether a replica served it. SECURITY FIRST Your Cloudflare credentials live only in the iOS Keychain, pasted token or sign-in grant alike: encrypted by the OS, never in plain text, never sent to third parties. D1Explorer talks straight to Cloudflare, with no intermediary servers. PRIVACY BY DESIGN D1Explorer collects no analytics, no telemetry, and no user data of its own. Cost & Budget and the Advisor read your usage from Cloudflare with your own credentials and send it nowhere else; the Advisor's suggestions are local arithmetic, not a language model. Draft SQL is the one feature that uses a language model, and it is Apple's on-device one: it receives your question and this database's table and column names, never a value from any row, and nothing is uploaded. The Query Notebook records SQL as you typed it, so it can contain literals from your data: clear its history or turn recording off in Settings. Local SQLite files and Wrangler project import are Mac features and are not part of the iPhone and iPad app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Runestone Text Editor at #45 against D1Explorer's unranked. Runestone Text Editor also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and D1Explorer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, D1Explorer weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runestone Text Editor | D1Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #45 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon B. Støvring | Magenta Creations |
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
D1Explorer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Runestone Text Editor
- Premium$9.99
D1Explorer
- D1Explorer Pro$5.99
Questions
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