Text Editor vs Pad Code AI
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.
Pad Code AI
A powerful, local-first code editor and IDE for iPad and iPhone, offering a desktop-class experience with on-device AI assistance. Write, run, and manage code offline with integrated Git and support for numerous programming languages.
- Desktop-class code editor
- Local code runner for multiple languages
- On-device AI code assistant
- Full Git integration
- Project workspace management
- Absolute privacy (local-first)
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Turn ideas into working code on iPad and iPhone. Pad Code AI brings an editor, local code runners, a terminal and project tools into one workspace. WRITE AND RUN Run C, C++, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, PHP, Lua and SQLite queries on your device with bundled compilers and interpreters. Use interactive input, command-line arguments and project files. Preview HTML and CSS projects. Language and library support depends on the included runtime. EDIT AND ORGANIZE Work with syntax highlighting, find in files, individual-file replacement, code folding and snippets. Open project folders through Files, manage multiple files, review Git changes, commit and push, and export projects as ZIP. SMARTER EDITING AND GIT SYNC Code completion suggests keywords, types and names from your file as you type, and works with VoiceOver. Pull changes from GitHub: edits made on both sides are merged line by line, and overlapping lines are marked for you to choose. Your projects also appear in the Files app. AI, WHEN YOU WANT IT Ask for explanations, refactoring ideas, tests or fixes. Review suggested changes before applying them. On-device AI requires a compatible system and device with Apple Intelligence enabled. Optional third-party AI requires your own credentials and an internet connection; availability varies by region. You choose what context to share. LEARN AND BUILD ANYWHERE Practice programming, try small scripts and develop project ideas. Local code execution works offline; Git network operations and remote AI require internet access. The interface is available in 20 languages. Support: https://phamhungtien.com/PadCodeAI PREVIEW SUPPORT Preview HTML, CSS and browser JavaScript with WebKit. Swift/SwiftUI, Metal and native OpenGL visual previews are not supported. Swift and other unsupported languages are editing-only. WORKSPACE AGENT With a compatible configured provider, the optional Workspace Agent can inspect code, create and edit text files, rename or delete files, and run supported code inside the project you open. Agent Changes shows saved changes, before/after diffs and Undo. The app checks for intervening edits before writing or restoring. You explicitly enable access and choose what context to share. Provider credentials are your own; multi-step requests may incur additional provider charges. This is a bounded project workflow, not an unrestricted system shell or package installer. New editor color themes and a refined interface. Git over HTTPS now supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and compatible servers, using standard repositories with branches, commits, stash, push and pull. Python can import compatible packages, including NumPy and pandas. Package downloads require internet; not every PyPI package is supported. Programs using only the bundled standard library can run offline. Improved language icons and links to video guides. Start faster with ready-to-run Python, web, C and JavaScript project templates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pad Code AI at 100% against Text Editor's 0%. Pad Code AI also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Text Editor's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (21 vs 2). 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. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Editor has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pad Code AI's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Editor ships an update monthly, Pad Code AI every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Editor | Pad Code AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devashy Rangpariya | Hung Tien Pham |
Customer experience
Text Editor
Pad Code AI
In-app purchases
Text Editor
No in-app purchases
Pad Code AI
No in-app purchases









