Runestone Text Editor Downloads & RevenueRunestone Text Editor · App Store
Runestone Text Editor is #28 in Developer Tools Grossing in United States and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSimon B. Støvring
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (2.1k)
Version1.6.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Runestone Text Editor update history & changes
Last change · 27 events since 5 May 2022Full timeline ↓✏️Added hidden keywords: highlights📈Entered the top 10✏️Added hidden keywords: codage📈Entered the top 10🆕Its developer released another app: Wavy Road: Endless Driving🔎Top 10 for “code editor”🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 1.6.2
Full timeline · 27 events
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: highlightswords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AE
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: codagewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: code, pythonwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: githubwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: codewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: html, programmingwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · CA
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: swiftwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · FR
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: textasticwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🆕Runestone Text Editor: its developer released another app: Wavy Road: Endless Driving
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: python, codewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: code, pythonwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: htmlwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · KR
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: textastic, htmlwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: replit, github, pythonwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Runestone Text Editor reached Top 10 for “code editor”#10 in Saudi Arabia search · popularity 54
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: textastic, htmlwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Runestone Text Editor added hidden keywords: htmlwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Runestone Text Editor entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Grossing · Developer Tools · CN · Top Grossing · Developer Tools · DE · Top Free · Developer Tools · SA
- 🆕Runestone Text Editor first spotted by AppInsider#48 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools · United Kingdom
- 📦Runestone Text Editor version 1.6.2No release notes
- 🆕Runestone 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.
Rating
4.7 ★
2.1k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#28
Developer Tools GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
36
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Runestone Text Editor on the App Store
App details
App ID
1548193893
Publisher
Simon Stovring
On the store since
May 2022
4 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
68 MB
Runestone 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
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Runestone 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.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
United Arab Emirates
Italy
Saudi Arabia
Russia
Australia
IndonesiaApps near Runestone Text Editor on the chart
Developer Tools Grossing, around #28.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
2.1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
2.1k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
36
steady vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Recent ratings
5.0★
vs 4.7★ lifetime
Review momentum
87/100
faster than 98% of Developer Tools apps
Growing fastest in United States ▲ +30% · 
Japan ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (10)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 48% | ▲ +30% |
 Germany | 3.5 | 10% | ▼ -22% |
| Japan | 3.5 | 10% | ▲ +29% |
 Canada | 2.8 | 8% | ▼ -56% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% | ▲ +50% |
 China | 1.8 | 5% | – |
 France | 1.2 | 3% | – |
 South Korea | 1.2 | 3% | – |
 Brazil | 1 | 3% | – |
 India | 1 | 3% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review 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 Runestone Text Editor
From the 58 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's native iOS design, speed, and syntax highlighting for code editing on mobile devices. However, significant complaints focus on data loss due to save failures, crashes when handling large files or specific actions, and bugs with copy-paste formatting.
Mostly positive (78% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and being hard to use.
What people like
- Ease of use: “It’s fast, simple, and easy to use”
- Features & content: “Most features are locked behind a paywall”
- Useful: “Useful for website themes”
- Price & subscription: “If you're fine paying for it, go ahead!”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Linebreaks copy paste bug”
- Ease of use
About Runestone Text Editor
A plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more. It's like TextEdit but more powerful and optimised for iPhone and iPad.
Runestone is made by a single person with a love for text editors and a vision of building the most lightweight text editor for iPhone and iPad that still has the core features for editing code.
Features:
- Syntax highlighting of many languages including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP, YAML, and many more.
- Select one of the twelve standard themes including popular themes like Tomorrow, Dracula, Solarized, and One Dark Pro.
- Innovative find and replace for searching and modifying text while still viewing your file.
- Choose font and font size, including support for custom fonts imported using another third-party app.
- Show the line and column the cursor is located on.
- Uses the standard document browser for an experience similar to the Files app.
- Quickly navigate to a specific line.
- Automatically close opening brackets and quotes.
- Multiple windows on the iPad.
- Format code using Prettier.js. Supported languages include CSS,HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP and more.
- Choose text encoding between popular encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more.
- Enable or disable autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation.
- Set default file extension of new files.
- Open files in Runestone from the Share Sheet.
- Print documents.
Premium features:
- Choose between eight app icons.
- Show line numbers.
- Highlight the selected line.
- Increase line height and letter spacing.
- Disable line wrapping to allow horizontal scrolling.
- Show tabs, spaces, and line breaks using a selected symbol.
- Enable page guide at a specific column to easily tell when lines are getting too long.
- Add vertical and horizontal overscroll.
- Remember the selected language per file.
- Save file extensions and filenames that should always be treated as plain text files.
- Enable soft tabs and choose the width of the tab character.
- Specify whether pressing the tab key should insert a tab or indent the line.
- Adjust the scaling of Markdown headings and disable highlighting of code blocks in Markdown.
Runestone was built on the open-source framework with the same name. Find more information on the Runestone framework at github.com/simonbs/runestone
Runestone is made by a single person with a love for text editors and a vision of building the most lightweight text editor for iPhone and iPad that still has the core features for editing code.
Features:
- Syntax highlighting of many languages including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP, YAML, and many more.
- Select one of the twelve standard themes including popular themes like Tomorrow, Dracula, Solarized, and One Dark Pro.
- Innovative find and replace for searching and modifying text while still viewing your file.
- Choose font and font size, including support for custom fonts imported using another third-party app.
- Show the line and column the cursor is located on.
- Uses the standard document browser for an experience similar to the Files app.
- Quickly navigate to a specific line.
- Automatically close opening brackets and quotes.
- Multiple windows on the iPad.
- Format code using Prettier.js. Supported languages include CSS,HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP and more.
- Choose text encoding between popular encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more.
- Enable or disable autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation.
- Set default file extension of new files.
- Open files in Runestone from the Share Sheet.
- Print documents.
Premium features:
- Choose between eight app icons.
- Show line numbers.
- Highlight the selected line.
- Increase line height and letter spacing.
- Disable line wrapping to allow horizontal scrolling.
- Show tabs, spaces, and line breaks using a selected symbol.
- Enable page guide at a specific column to easily tell when lines are getting too long.
- Add vertical and horizontal overscroll.
- Remember the selected language per file.
- Save file extensions and filenames that should always be treated as plain text files.
- Enable soft tabs and choose the width of the tab character.
- Specify whether pressing the tab key should insert a tab or indent the line.
- Adjust the scaling of Markdown headings and disable highlighting of code blocks in Markdown.
Runestone was built on the open-source framework with the same name. Find more information on the Runestone framework at github.com/simonbs/runestone
Latest updates
1.6.2
