Comparison

Text Editor vs TrackOSC

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

TrackOSC

This app transforms your iPhone into a wireless motion-tracking camera. It streams real-time pose, face, text, and animal tracking data over your local network as OSC messages. All processing is done on-device, ensuring your video never leaves your phone.

Highlights
  • Live tracking overlays (body, hand, face, text, animals)
  • Per-detector toggles for performance
  • Front/back camera support with selfie mirror
  • Portrait/landscape orientation lock
  • Automatic OSC receiver discovery (Bonjour)
  • Hide-video mode for stage use
Features
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TrackOSC turns your iPhone into a wireless motion-tracking camera. Point it at a person and it streams live tracking data – body poses in 2D and 3D, hand poses, face landmarks, recognised text, animals, people, barcodes, outlines, the horizon and rectangles – over your local network as OSC (Open Sound Control) messages, ready for TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Processing, openFrameworks, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Unity, or anything else that speaks OSC. All processing happens on-device with Apple's Vision framework. No video ever leaves your phone – only numbers. WHAT IT TRACKS • 2D Body: a 17-joint skeleton in pixels • 3D Body: a 17-joint skeleton in metres – real depth from a single camera, with each joint's pixel position alongside • Hand: 21 joints per hand, up to two hands • Face: the face box, head rotation and jawline contour, and Face Landmarks: the full 76-point constellation – eyes, pupils, brows, nose, lips, jaw • Text: recognised text with its bounding box • Animal: cat and dog boxes, and Animal Pose: full 25-joint cat and dog skeletons • Human: whole-body boxes that keep counting people at distances where pose estimation gives up • Barcode: QR codes and 1D/2D barcodes with position, corners, symbology and payload • Contours: every edge outline in the frame as closed polylines • Horizon: the horizon's angle and a line across the frame • Rectangles: screens, paper, doors – a box plus four corners FEATURES • Live tracking overlays on the camera view, colour-coded per detector • One chip per detector – run just what you need for the best frame rate; 3D Body runs in its own lane so it never slows the others • Front or back camera, with a natural selfie mirror (wire data is never mirrored) • Portrait and landscape, with an orientation lock for phones mounted on tripods and rigs • Automatic discovery of receivers on your network via Bonjour – or type any IP and port • Hide-video mode: tracking overlay only, on black – for stage and installation use • Free, notarised macOS companions – a Receiver with 2D and 3D views, a Recorder that records and replays the stream, a Speaker that reads it aloud, and a Router that turns it into MIDI, Shortcuts, key presses and HTTP – plus open-source receiver examples for Processing, Python, p5.js, TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Pure Data, openFrameworks and SuperCollider, all from the project page COMPATIBILITY TrackOSC speaks exactly the same OSC wire format as VisionOSC and PoseOSC, so existing receivers and patches work unchanged. The newer detectors arrive as additional messages that older receivers simply ignore. Coordinates are in pixels, origin top-left, with the frame dimensions in every message. PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Camera frames are analysed on the device and discarded; tracking data is sent only to the destination you choose. TrackOSC is open source: https://github.com/JGL/TrackOSC

Screenshots

Text Editor4 screens
TrackOSC1 screens

Verdict

The call

Text Editor and TrackOSC both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of TrackOSC's written reviews are positive against 0% of Text Editor's. TrackOSC also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Text Editor's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Editor against 5.0 for TrackOSC. 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 are what separate them: 0% of Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 100% of TrackOSC's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Editor ships an update monthly, TrackOSC fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Editor versus TrackOSC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText EditorTrackOSC
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (21 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevashy RangpariyaJoel Lewis

Customer experience

Text Editor

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

TrackOSC

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

None

TrackOSC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TrackOSC free?
TrackOSC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Editor or TrackOSC?
Text Editor and TrackOSC are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 21 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Text Editor or TrackOSC have ads?
Neither Text Editor nor TrackOSC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Editor or TrackOSC?
Text Editor ships an update monthly, and TrackOSC fortnightly. Most recently, Text Editor was updated on October 25, 2026 and TrackOSC on October 24, 2026.

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