Textastic Code Editor Overview
What is Textastic Code Editor?
Textastic is a text and code editor app that is available for iPad and iPhone. It supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages. The app allows you to connect to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox or Google Drive account. You can also use the built-in SSH terminal to work directly on your server.
Features
- Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages
- Compatible with TextMate 1 and Sublime Text 3 syntax definitions and themes
- Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Objective-C, and PHP
- FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP (SSH connection), WebDAV, Dropbox and Google Drive clients
- SSH terminal connections
- Git repositories from the Git client app Working Copy can be opened as external folders in Textastic
- Emmet support
- JavaScript console
- Supports TextExpander snippet expansion
- iCloud Drive file synchronization
- WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi
- Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
- Full support for external keyboards, trackpads, and mice
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts
- Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming
- Cursor navigation wheel for easy text selection
- Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures
- Split View and Slide Over multitasking on iPad
- Open multiple files in tabs
- Multiple Windows on iPadOS
- Support for Dark Mode
- Supports most encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1
- Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs)
- Custom fonts
- Find & Replace (including regular expression search)
- Find in multiple files
- File information like character count and word count
- Local and remote web preview for HTML and Markdown files
Official Screenshots
Product Details and Description of
Textastic is the most comprehensive and versatile text and code editor available for iPad and iPhone. It supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox or Google Drive account. Use the built-in SSH terminal to work directly on your server. FEATURES: • Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C++, Rust, Swift, Objective-C, XML, Markdown, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, YAML, JSON, SQL, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website) • Compatible with TextMate 1 and Sublime Text 3 syntax definitions and themes • Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Objective-C, and PHP • FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP (SSH connection), WebDAV, Dropbox and Google Drive clients • SSH terminal connections • Git repositories from the Git client app Working Copy can be opened as external folders in Textastic • Emmet support • JavaScript console • Supports TextExpander snippet expansion • iCloud Drive file synchronization • WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi. • Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file • Full support for external keyboards, trackpads, and mice • Configurable keyboard shortcuts • Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming • Cursor navigation wheel for easy text selection • Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures • Split View and Slide Over multitasking on iPad • Open multiple files in tabs • Multiple Windows on iPadOS • Support for Dark Mode • Supports most encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1 • Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs) • Custom fonts • Find & Replace (including regular expression search) • Find in multiple files • File information like character count and word count • Local and remote web preview for HTML and Markdown files Don't hesitate to tell me the features you want to see in the next version! https://feedback.textasticapp.com/ https://twitter.com/Textastic
Top Reviews
By vriley
I do all my web development in this app
Yes, I have a Macbook Pro with all the latest web dev tools. But I always have my iPad with me, and I end up doing all my development with Textastic. It has its own local file structure so you can build the server folder and file structure locally and develop with relative links. You can store all the resources (graphics, images, scripts, stylesheets, etc.) in their proper places so the entire site can be uploaded as it exists on the device. My typical workflow starts with Graphic for graphic and image resources, Pixelmator to edit images to size, and Textastic for html, css, and Javascript as needed. iCloud files are synced automatically so I can pick up on any device, and upload to the web host directly from the iCloud directories. This is one of the essential apps that make the iPad so incredibly useful.
By RaphaSh
the best text edit on iPhone for sure!
No words, I use this program over years, it’s simply the best. Easy to access FTP with the phone, transfer files, edit files, just wipe out for example an error on your website immediately on the go. Because I use it over years, I can say the programer is an amazing guy!! He didn’t bring a program to the App Store for a fast money, he’s passionate about it and loves it, there is a regular improvement and development since years! I read the change log from 8.0, and again saw it will be better now than ever before :)))
By BasenjiBuddy
One of my favorite tools
In the past several decades I’ve used a wide variety of text editors on all sorts of platforms. Textastic is one of the best I’ve ever used. It works well on all of my devices; it gets used for everything from writing scripts and configuration files to taking down notes. I’m also visually-impaired, and the ability to customize the interface to make it easier to use is extremely helpful. VoiceOver support is fairly solid, and overall it’ easy to navigate the UI. The developers have done a good job and as a result Textastic is well worth the money.
