Comparison

Runestone Text Editor vs UI Catalog for SwiftUI

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

UI Catalog for SwiftUI

Explore and interact with SwiftUI components in live previews. Instantly copy generated code and access official documentation. Ship faster with this developer reference tool.

Highlights
  • Live SwiftUI component previews
  • Interactive parameter playground
  • Real-time code generation
  • One-tap copy to Xcode
  • Direct links to official docs
  • Browse and search components
Features
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See SwiftUI components live. Copy the code. Ship faster. Now covering Map (MapKit) and Charts (Swift Charts), with interactive previews and real code for both. UI Catalog is the SwiftUI reference you'll open every day — browse or search, play with live previews, copy real code, and jump to Apple's official docs in one tap. Browse by category. Search as you type. A wide range of SwiftUI components on one scrollable screen, grouped by category — Controls, Layout, Navigation, Shapes, and more. A thumb-friendly search bar on the bottom filters instantly as you type. Now with Map and Charts v1.2 adds two of the most-requested frameworks. Explore MapKit's Map — annotations, markers, map styles, and camera position — and build Swift Charts with bar, line, area, and point marks, all from the same parameter playground, with copy-paste code for every configuration. See it live, not just described Open any component to an interactive Preview — the real SwiftUI view, running. Flip between light and dark, and tweak it from a parameter playground: toggle states, change colors, adjust values, and watch it update in real time. Copy code that matches what you see The Code tab generates a clean, syntax-highlighted SwiftUI snippet from your current playground settings — change a parameter and the code changes with it. One tap copies it, ready to paste into Xcode. One tap to the official docs Each component includes a direct link to Apple's official developer documentation, so deeper reading is never more than a tap away. Buy once. Use forever. Every competing catalog has a paywall, a subscription, or ads. This one has none of them — and it never touches your data. One-time purchase — no subscription, ever No advertisements anywhere in the app No account or login — open it and it just works No analytics, no tracking — everything stays on your device Who it's for Built for developers and designers who work with SwiftUI daily, and for product owners who want to see what's natively possible before writing a spec. This app is an independent reference tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. SwiftUI is a trademark of Apple Inc.

Screenshots

Runestone Text Editor4 screens
UI Catalog for SwiftUI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Runestone Text Editor at Free against UI Catalog for SwiftUI's $4.99. Runestone Text Editor also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and chart position (#49 vs unranked). UI Catalog for SwiftUI's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 76%). 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; UI Catalog for SwiftUI costs $4.99 up front. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. UI Catalog for SwiftUI asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, UI Catalog for SwiftUI monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Runestone Text Editor versus UI Catalog for SwiftUI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunestone Text EditorUI Catalog for SwiftUI
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#49 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon B. StøvringMANNABRI UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Runestone Text Editor

All ratings1,962 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews363 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral9.6%
Negative14.3%

UI Catalog for SwiftUI

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

UI Catalog for SwiftUI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99
None

UI Catalog for SwiftUI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runestone Text Editor free?
Runestone Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UI Catalog for SwiftUI free?
UI Catalog for SwiftUI costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runestone Text Editor or UI Catalog for SwiftUI have ads?
Neither Runestone Text Editor nor UI Catalog for SwiftUI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runestone Text Editor or UI Catalog for SwiftUI?
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, and UI Catalog for SwiftUI monthly. Most recently, Runestone Text Editor was updated on October 21, 2026 and UI Catalog for SwiftUI on September 30, 2026.

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