Text Editor vs Launch Canvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Launch Canvas
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Create App Store screenshots that are ready to launch. Launch Canvas helps iOS developers turn real app screens into polished App Store screenshots without using a complex design tool. Paste your App Store link to start faster. Launch Canvas can use public listing details such as your app name, current version, icon and public screenshots where available, then help you build a premium screenshot set from your real app screens. Import screenshots from Photos or Files, choose a launch-ready layout, add clear marketing copy, apply an iPhone frame, and export exact-size PNG images for App Store submission. Built for App Store screenshot creation: • Start from an App Store link where public data is available • Import real screenshots from Photos or Files • Create the first 3 screenshots as a launch hero set • Preview screenshots together like an App Store listing • Add titles, subtitles and supporting copy per screen • Use iPhone frames, colour palettes and launch-ready styles • Fine-tune text, colour, layout and device presentation • Export production-ready PNGs at exact App Store dimensions Launch Canvas is focused on App Store screenshots, not generic graphic design. It is also not an AI image generator. There are no prompts, random outputs or invented app screens. You work from your real screenshots and get deterministic, submission-ready images. Use Launch Canvas for: • New app launches • Screenshot refreshes • Version updates • ASO experiments • Product page improvements • Cleaner app marketing visuals No account is required. No server is used for editing. Your screenshots stay local to your device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Editor at none against Launch Canvas's 2. Text Editor also leads on chart position (#207 vs unranked). Launch Canvas's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). 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
Both are free to download. Launch Canvas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Text Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text Editor ships an update monthly, Launch Canvas every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Editor | Launch Canvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #207 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devashy Rangpariya | STEVEN JAMES GOOD |
In-app purchases
Text Editor
No in-app purchases
Launch Canvas
- Launch Canvas Pro$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$59.99
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