Textastic – Syntax Highlighting, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox
By Alexander Blach
View More By This Developer- Price$7.99
- CategoryProductivity
- Versions5 archived
- Installable5 of 5
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerAlexander Blach
- Bundle IDcom.textasticapp.textastic
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueTextastic is a fast and versatile text, code and markup editor. It supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to FTP, SFTP and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi.
It's the perfect app to view and edit your website and source code files at home, in the office or on the road.
FEATURES
• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website) • Compatible with TextMate syntax definitions and themes • Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP functions • FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP (SSH connection), WebDAV and Dropbox clients • iCloud • WebDAV server • Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file • Full keyboard dock and bluetooth keyboard support • 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 • Supports most encodings like UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, CP 1251 or MacRoman • Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs) • Customizable font and font sizes • Undo & Redo • Find & Replace (including regular expression search) • File information like character count and word count • Send files by email • Local and remote web preview for HTML and Markdown files • Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion
Textastic supports several ways to import your files: • Connect to (S)FTP and WebDAV servers or Dropbox • By using "Open In" in other apps • Over Wi-Fi with the built-in WebDAV server
Don't hesitate to tell me the features you want to see in the next version!
http://feedback.textasticapp.com/ http://twitter.com/Textastic
Bundle Size Over Time
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Ratings Over Time
sampled from 5 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2010 | 1.1 | — | 37 | $4.99 |
| January 25, 2011 | 2.0 | — | 83 | $9.99 |
| January 9, 2012 | — | — | 404 | $9.99 |
| April 29, 2013 | — | — | 959 | $8.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25I'd love to say 5 stars...but I need iPad and multi-tasking support! I want to have an app side-by-side with Textastic.
I was trying to take inventory of all the stuff I bought in 2015, and the Amazon application was very wonky when I tried to copy-and-paste content from it into my inventory spreadsheet (using Numbers). I just needed a plain text editor that wouldn't paste the underlying links or paste WYSIWYG content into the document. Just plain text! Well, that and I'm also a software developer, so I appreciate a really nice text editor. Anyway, thank you! I'd have paid twice this much. It's great.
This app is an absolute mess. Downloads from Dropbox hang as the app tried to copy every file over and over again indefinitely. Connecting to an FTP server is no better due to random permission errors.
The designers of this app left no thought undone. The workflow of this app is so intuitive and practical I was totally productive in less than one day. The design is eloquently simple and extremely powerful at the same time. I never thought I would ever prefer the iPad over the desktop for non-wysiwyg development, but I do! Thank you so much!
This app does exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to simply edit my HTML files, and upload them directly to the FTP server. It was easy to set up, connect, and get going!! So awesome to be able to remotely edit a clients website from wherever I am using my iPad Pro. This app is worth 10X what we pay for it, if you've got doubts, leave them behind and buy this app!
Works really well out of the box. I was able to do what I wanted really quickly with a couple files and get them where they needed to go. I'm sure the manuals are great, I'll get to them later to dig deeper but this works great. Only complaint: please bring iPad pro support. Looking forward to the update. Great app still
Trying to open multiple source code C++ is a pain in the butt for this application. You basically have to navigate through your directories for every file you want to move over. Some sync support would be nice too. On top of that it won't let me open any source code from Google Drive or OneDrive unless I open them in that application first, and then copy them over to Textastic.
I am not a professional coder by any means but do enjoy doing it in my spare time. This is EXACTLY the kind of app I was looking for! Worth every penny!
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.