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Runestone Text Editor

by Simon B. Støvring

  • Developer Tools
  • Free
View on the App Store
Rating
4.7
2.1K ratings · US storefront
Top 12%among 187 Developer Tools apps
Last update
Sep 10, 2026
Version 1.6.2
Size
68 MB
Category
Developer Tools
Tracked since
Oct 9, 2026

Estimated revenue

A model estimate with a likely range, not a reported figure.

$11K/ month

Monthly gross store revenue (USD)

Estimated

Where this falls on the revenue bands

Likely range
$1.6K–89K
$10K–50K
Confidence
Low confidence
Chart day Oct 24, 2026
From Developer Tools grossing #24

Unverified model estimate. Neither Apple nor the developer has published this number, and the real figure can be several times higher or lower. Low confidence: the real figure can be a band higher or lower.

How this estimate is made

Rank: we take the app's best Top Grossing rank on the latest chart day. Category ranks are converted into an equivalent overall rank, because a #10 in Finance earns far less than a #10 overall.

Curve: that equivalent rank is read off a rank-to-revenue curve anchored on public company revenue and market-data reports for the US iPhone App Store.

Country: the curve is scaled per country (Japan is roughly a third of the US, Türkiye under 1%). Where we have no scale, such as China, there is no estimate.

Range: the likely range widens with country, category and chart depth. It is a plausible span, not a statistical confidence interval.

Not included: ads, payments outside the App Store, and any difference between gross sales and what the developer keeps. Low confidence means indirect data; medium means several independent sources agree.

Full method

Screenshots

As shown on the App Store listing.

About this app

Text from the App Store listing.

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

What’s new

Release notes for the latest version, as written by the developer.

v1.6.2

Brings small optimizations for iOS 27.

Rank history

Daily position in the Germany charts. #1 is at the top.

Best rank
#24
Current rank
#24
Days charting
7 of 7

On the charts today

Small & simple score

How realistic it is for a small team to build something like this.

58/100

Not flagged as small & simple

  • Developer size0% · 25

    Developer: 6 apps on the charts

  • Audience size50% · 20

    Ratings: 2,084

  • App size60% · 10

    Size: 68 MB

  • Price model80% · 15

    Price model: free with in-app purchases

  • Demand proof100% · 30

    Best rank #1, 151 countries

An indicator, not a fact. We can't see team size. Calculated Oct 24, 2026 · method i2

How the score works

Version history

  • 1.6.2LatestReleased Sep 10, 2026