Comparison

Text Editor vs Gitox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Gitox

Manage Git repositories directly from your mobile device. This AI-powered client allows you to clone, browse, edit, commit, and push code without a computer. An AI agent can analyze code, propose changes, and assist with reviews.

Highlights
  • AI code analysis and change proposals
  • Browse, edit, and commit code
  • Push to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
  • Branch and history management
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Merge conflict resolution
Features
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Gitox is an AI-powered Git client. Clone, browse, edit, commit, and push repositories with no computer required. AI Agent (Pro) Chat with an AI agent that understands your repo. Analyze code, propose changes, review diffs, and apply edits with approval at every step. Bring your own API key (compatible providers). Browse and Edit Navigate files and edit code with syntax highlighting. View diffs, file history, and commit details inline. Commit and Push Stage changes, write commit messages, and push to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or any Git remote via HTTPS or SSH. Branches and History Create and switch branches, view commit graphs, manage tags, stash changes, resolve merge conflicts, and perform interactive rebase. Pro: One-Time Purchase Unlock AI agent, commit history, and hunk staging with a single lifetime purchase. No subscription.

Screenshots

Text Editor4 screens
Gitox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gitox at 100% against Text Editor's 0%. Text Editor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support 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. Gitox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Text Editor versus Gitox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText EditorGitox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#196 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevashy RangpariyaRogerio Sobrinho

Customer experience

Text Editor

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Gitox

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gitox

One-time1
  • Gitox Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gitox free?
Gitox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Text Editor or Gitox have ads?
Neither Text Editor nor Gitox shows ads.

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