Comparison

Runestone Text Editor vs HookDeploy

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

HookDeploy

Features
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HookDeploy gives you complete visibility and control over your webhook pipelines, right from your phone. Whether you're a developer debugging a Stripe integration or an automation builder managing Zapier workflows, HookDeploy shows you exactly what's hitting your endpoints, headers, body, query params, and delivery status, in real time. INSPECT WEBHOOKS INSTANTLY Every incoming webhook is captured and inspected the moment it arrives. See the full request, method, headers, body, and query parameters, with syntax highlighting and organized tabs. No more digging through logs or waiting until you're back at your desk. ROUTE TO YOUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE Deploy the HookDeploy Agent on your own server and webhooks route straight to it over a mutually authenticated TLS connection, no open inbound ports, no exposed endpoints. Your payload never travels over the public internet after it hits our edge. Built for teams who take security seriously, without the setup overhead of managing a VPN. WORKS WITH YOUR STACK Native integrations with Zapier, n8n, Make, and more. Connect HookDeploy to your existing automation workflows in minutes. Replay any captured request to any destination with a single tap. REAL-TIME MONITORING Live webhook stream on every endpoint. Instant visibility into delivery success, failure, and response times across all your destinations. Know the moment something breaks, before your customers do. INCIDENT TRACKING, BUILT IN When deliveries start failing, HookDeploy opens an incident automatically, correlates the failures, and keeps you posted as it evolves. Triage from your phone, leave notes for your team, and replay everything at once the moment it's fixed. TEAM-READY Invite your team, manage roles and permissions, and share endpoint access across your organization. Full audit log of every action. HookDeploy is free to get started. Starter, Team, and Enterprise plans available for growing teams.

Screenshots

Runestone Text Editor4 screens
HookDeploy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HookDeploy at none against Runestone Text Editor's 1. Runestone Text Editor's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and chart position (#47 vs unranked). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. HookDeploy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, HookDeploy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Runestone Text Editor versus HookDeploy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunestone Text EditorHookDeploy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#47 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringSnapStack Technologies Inc.

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

HookDeploy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99
None

HookDeploy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runestone Text Editor free?
Runestone Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HookDeploy free?
HookDeploy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runestone Text Editor or HookDeploy have ads?
Neither Runestone Text Editor nor HookDeploy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runestone Text Editor or HookDeploy?
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, and HookDeploy every 2 months. Most recently, Runestone Text Editor was updated on November 3, 2026 and HookDeploy on October 31, 2026.

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