Lightweight Text Editor Downloads & RevenueLightweight Text Editor · App Store
Lightweight Text Editor is #16 in Productivity Paid in Brazil and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Lightweight Text Editor update history & changes
Last change · 28 events since 6 Jun 2022Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 28 events
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new iPad screenshots· NL
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new screenshots3 screenshots (was 3) · NL
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new iPad screenshots· US
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new screenshots3 screenshots (was 3) · US
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new iPad screenshots· BR
- ✏️Lightweight Text Editor: new screenshots3 screenshots (was 3) · BR
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · BR
- 📦Lightweight Text Editor updated to version 1.2• Quality enhancements, including optimizations for iPhone Duo
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · FR
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · CA
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · AU
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · US
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · IT
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryItaly
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · BR · Top Paid · Productivity · NL
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new country in 2 chartsBrazil · Netherlands
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · DE
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · JP
- 📈Lightweight Text Editor charting in a new countryJapan
- 🆕Lightweight Text Editor first spotted by AppInsider#45 in Top Paid · Productivity · United Kingdom
- 📦Lightweight Text Editor version 1.1No release notes
- 🆕Lightweight Text Editor released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Productivity PaidLightweight Text Editor on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Lightweight Text Editor declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Lightweight Text Editor downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Lightweight Text Editor's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Lightweight Text Editor makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | ProductivityPaid | #16 |
 United States | ProductivityPaid | #90 |
 Japan | ProductivityPaid | #79 |
| Brazil | All AppsPaid | #192 |
Apps near Lightweight Text Editor on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #16.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Lightweight Text Editor
From the 23 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's simplicity and reliability for basic text editing tasks, often preferring it over more complex word processors. However, significant complaints exist regarding file compatibility issues, broken export functions, and restrictive file management systems.
Mixed but leaning positive (65% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Straightforward text editor”
- Useful
- Features & content: “This feature increases the readability of my notes”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Export functionality broken”
About Lightweight Text Editor
If you want to work with raw text without having to worry about formatting, then this app is for you. It can open any plain text file, regardless of the extension.
You can create folders to organize your documents.
You can also change the encoding and the line endings (CR/LF/CRLF).
Latest updates
Store changes
What Lightweight Text Editor changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
