Text Editor vs CodeStudio
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.
CodeStudio
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CodeStudio helps you create, edit, preview, and manage code projects from one place. Write HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, JSON, and 60+ other languages with syntax highlighting in a fast, focused editor. Preview pages instantly, connect to remote servers with SSH and SFTP, and export your projects to your device whenever you're ready. CodeStudio is a powerful code-editing workspace designed for developers who need to write, edit, and manage files from anywhere. Whether you're updating website files, reviewing source code, or working on a remote server, CodeStudio gives you a streamlined environment built around speed and productivity. KEY FEATURES • Fast source code and text editor • Syntax highlighting for 60+ languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, JSON, Java, C/C++, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Rust, Ruby, SQL, YAML, XML, Markdown, and Shell • Built-in code formatting (beautify) for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON • SSH terminal and SFTP file transfer for secure remote access • Local file management plus iCloud Drive and external folders from the Files app • Tab-based editing for multiple files at once • Powerful find & replace, including regular expressions, and search across files • Instant Web Preview for HTML and Markdown • Dark and light themes, custom fonts, font sizes, and editor/terminal themes • External keyboard, mouse, and trackpad support, plus a quick programming-keys row WORK WITH FILES FROM ANYWHERE • Open and edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, and other text-based files directly on your device. • Use the built-in Web Preview to see your HTML and Markdown pages without leaving the app. • Import files shared from other apps, cloud storage, email attachments, and messaging apps for quick viewing and editing. • Create, edit, organize, and manage your projects in one workspace. • Compress projects into ZIP archives, then export and share them whenever you need. • Connect to remote servers over SSH and SFTP to manage and edit files, and open a full terminal session. Built for developers, web designers, system administrators, and students, CodeStudio helps you edit code, manage projects, and work with files efficiently from your device. Whether you're making quick website updates, reviewing source code, or managing files on a remote server, CodeStudio delivers a reliable coding experience designed around modern development workflows. CODESTUDIO PRO CodeStudio offers an optional Pro subscription that unlocks the full file manager, SFTP transfers, the SSH terminal, and search across files. Subscriptions are billed weekly, monthly, or yearly through your App Store account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy Policy: https://codestudiotexthtmleditor.blogspot.com/2026/06/codestudio-text-html-editor-app-privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Text Editor at monthly against CodeStudio's every 3 months. CodeStudio's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 ships an update monthly, CodeStudio every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Editor | CodeStudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devashy Rangpariya | Dhruv Kathiriya |
In-app purchases
Text Editor
No in-app purchases
CodeStudio
No in-app purchases









