Runestone Text Editor vs SiteGrade
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
SiteGrade
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SiteGrade checks the security configuration a website serves to browsers, grades it A to F, and explains every finding in plain English with the exact change to make. Type a domain on iPhone or iPad, or share a page straight from Safari, and the answer takes seconds. One purchase also covers Mac. WHAT IT CHECKS Security headers - Content-Security-Policy, including report-only policies - Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS), with max-age and includeSubDomains - X-Content-Type-Options - X-Frame-Options and CSP frame-ancestors - Referrer-Policy - Permissions-Policy - Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy, Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy and Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy - Server and framework version disclosure - Legacy X-XSS-Protection TLS/SSL certificate - Chain validity, trusted root, self-signed and hostname-mismatch detection - Expiry date, with a warning well before it becomes an outage - Negotiated protocol version, TLS 1.0 through TLS 1.3 Transport - Whether plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, asked on port 80 directly - The full redirect chain, including cross-host and downgrading hops - Mixed content: the page loads in an isolated web view and every insecure subresource request is recorded, active and passive DNS and email - A, AAAA, CNAME and MX records - SPF and DMARC presence and policy - Reported as information only. DNS and email findings never move the letter grade. EXPLAINED, NOT DUMPED Every finding answers three questions: what it means, why it matters, and how to fix it, with copy-ready nginx and Apache values and a command to confirm the fix landed. There is also a fix prompt written from your own report that you can hand to a coding agent. THE GRADE SHOWS ITS WORK Points, caps and bands come from a rubric published inside the app on a "How grading works" screen, so you can always answer "why a B?". Every finding shows the raw evidence behind it: the header value received, the certificate fields, the DNS answers. FREE AND PRO Checking sites is free and unlimited, and every free check shows the grade and the full finding list. Pro is a one-time purchase, never a subscription. It covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it is shareable with your family. Pro unlocks: - Every finding's plain-English explanation, fix snippet and evidence - History, kept on your device and grouped by domain, so a grade has a trend instead of a moment - Compare, so a re-check shows what was fixed, what regressed and what is new - Export of the full report as Markdown or PDF, and the fix prompt PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no trackers, no ads. Nothing you check is sent to us, because there is nowhere for it to go. Your reports stay on your device. HONEST ABOUT SCOPE This grade reflects the security configuration a site serves to browsers. It is not a security audit. Every check is passive and read-only: a GET request, one TLS handshake, DNS lookups and one page load, which is the same traffic a browser makes when it opens the page. SiteGrade is built for checking your own site or a site you manage. Terms of Use: https://joneslabs.dev/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Runestone Text Editor at every 2 weeks against SiteGrade's every 5 weeks. Runestone Text Editor also leads on chart position (#42 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 SiteGrade 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, SiteGrade every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runestone Text Editor | SiteGrade |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #42 — 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 | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon B. Støvring | JonesLabs LLC |
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
SiteGrade
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Runestone Text Editor
- Premium$9.99
SiteGrade
- SiteGrade Pro$6.99
Questions
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