Comparison

Text Editor vs Gogodex

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

Gogodex

Features
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Gogodex lets you control your Mac-based Codex workflow from your iPhone. Pair your phone with your Mac, send prompts from your iPhone, and watch Codex responses stream back while the actual coding runtime stays on your computer. Key features: - Secure QR-code pairing with your Mac - Send prompts to your Mac-based Codex runtime - View streaming responses on iPhone - Continue working from your phone when you are away from the keyboard - Use photo attachments and voice input when available - Review Codex actions and permission prompts from your mobile device - Reconnect to a trusted Mac after pairing Gogodex is built for users who already use Codex on their own machine and want a mobile control surface. It does not run Codex for you in the cloud. Requirements: - A Mac with a working Codex setup - Gogodex bridge running on the Mac - Network access between iPhone, relay, and Mac Disclosure: Gogodex is an independent companion app. It is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with OpenAI. OpenAI, Codex, and related marks belong to their respective owners.

Screenshots

Text Editor4 screens
Gogodex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Editor at Free against Gogodex's $2.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

Text Editor is free to download; Gogodex costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Text Editor versus Gogodex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText EditorGogodex
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevashy Rangpariyayu hung wei

In-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

None

Gogodex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gogodex free?
Gogodex costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Editor or Gogodex have ads?
Neither Text Editor nor Gogodex shows ads.

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