QuickCode vs Text Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuickCode
A powerful and intuitive code editor for mobile devices. Offers syntax highlighting, customizable themes, and seamless file management. Ideal for both beginners and experienced developers to code on the go.
- Syntax Highlighting
- Customizable Editor Themes
- Metadata Pane
- iOS Files App Integration
- Export to Multiple Formats
- App Clip functionality
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Welcome to QuickCode, the ultimate code editor designed for users who want to code on the go with power and ease. Featuring a sleek and intuitive interface, QuickCode offers a comprehensive set of tools tailored for both beginners and seasoned developers. Whether you're crafting a quick script or diving into a complex project, this app provides the versatility and functionality you need to bring your ideas to life. Features: * Syntax Highlighting: Write code with clarity and precision thanks to our advanced syntax highlighting feature, which enhances readability and reduces errors. * Editor Themes: Customise your coding environment to suit your style with a variety of editor themes, ensuring a personalised and comfortable experience. * Metadata Pane: Stay organised and efficient with our metadata pane, providing quick access to essential information about the file you're currently working on. * Integration with the Files App: Seamlessly manage your projects and files using the iOS Files app integration, enabling easy access and synchronisation across your devices. * Export to Multiple Formats: Share your code effortlessly by exporting to various file formats, ensuring compatibility with different platforms and tools. * App Clip: Need a text editor in a pinch? Quickly install a compressed version of the app using an App Clip. QuickCode empowers you to code anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Download now and unleash your creativity on the go!
Text Editor
A professional code and text editor for developers, students, and creators. It offers fast performance, extensive language support, and advanced editing features for a smooth and reliable coding experience on Apple devices.
- Professional code and text editing
- Fast and lightweight performance
- Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting
- Smart autocomplete and code suggestions
- Built-in snippets for popular languages
- Format code with Prettier
- 30+ professionally designed themes
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Text Editor is a fast, modern, and powerful code editor built for developers, students, and creators who want a professional coding experience on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Write, edit, and manage code with support for many popular programming, scripting, and markup languages all in one lightweight and easy-to-use editor. Whether you are building websites, editing configuration files, writing scripts, learning programming, or taking technical notes, Text Editor provides a smooth and reliable workspace designed for productivity. Supported Languages: Swift, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Perl, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, JSON5, YAML, TOML, Markdown, Astro, Regex, Elixir, Haskell, Plain Text, and many more. Features: - Professional code and text editing - Fast and lightweight performance - Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting - Smart autocomplete and code suggestions - Built-in snippets for popular languages - Context-aware suggestions with fuzzy matching - Auto-close brackets, quotes, and tags - Find and replace - Go to line - Undo and redo support - Duplicate and move lines quickly - Advanced keyboard editing controls - Format code with Prettier - Support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and PHP formatting - Adjustable tab width, line length, quote style, trailing commas, prose wrap, and more - Beautiful built-in light and dark themes - 30+ professionally designed themes included - Popular themes inspired by One Dark Pro, Dracula, Monokai, Solarized, Nord, GitHub Dark, Tokyo Night, Material, Paper, and more - Import and export custom themes - App-wide adaptive color scheme - Fully customizable keyboard accessory bar - Quick access coding symbols and actions - Powerful editing actions including indent, outdent, duplicate lines, move lines, and cursor navigation - Searchable advanced font picker with support for custom fonts - Adjustable font size, line height, and letter spacing - Multiple text encodings with automatic detection - Choose between UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more encodings - Line ending detection and preservation (LF and CRLF) - Enable or disable auto-correction - Enable or disable auto-capitalization - Enable or disable spell-checking - Hardware keyboard shortcuts for save, find, format, comments, and navigation - Auto-save and unsaved changes protection - Native Files app integration - Open, edit, and share files easily - Share Sheet support - Print documents directly from the app - Optimized for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro Built for Productivity: Text Editor is designed to help you stay focused with a clean interface, responsive performance, and powerful developer tools that make coding easier anywhere. Perfect for web development, mobile app development, backend scripting, configuration editing, Markdown writing, learning programming, technical notes, and everyday text editing. Simple enough for beginners. Powerful enough for professional developers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: QuickCode at 50% against Text Editor's 0%. Text Editor's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Text Editor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of QuickCode's written reviews are positive against 0% of Text Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
QuickCode ships an update every 7 months, Text Editor monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuickCode | Text Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Howard | Devashy Rangpariya |
Customer experience
QuickCode
Text Editor
In-app purchases
QuickCode
No in-app purchases
Text Editor
No in-app purchases





