Turbo Editor // Text Editor

- August 17, 2015

Everyone

Productivity

Offers in-app purchases

( 4,228)

Turbo Editor // Text Editor- screenshot thumbnail

Description

Simple, Powerful and Open Source Text Editor for Android. Built following the latest Android Guidelines to make the experience the most intuitive on the Store, also on Tablets!

REVIEWS
∙ Turbo Editor Supercharges Your Device’s Text Editing Functionality
- XDA http://goo.gl/z90cmM

∙ Turbo Editor Is a Powerful Text Editor With Syntax Highlighting
- LifeHacker.com http://goo.gl/Ced1PK

∙ Turbo Editor gives file editing a much needed boost
- AndroidCommunity.com http://goo.gl/cVkCd4

∙ Turbo Editor App Fits Your Text Editing Functionality on Smartphone and Tablet
- http://goo.gl/P0f4mu

∙ Mächtiger Text Editor für Android im Material Design
- TabletCommunity.de http://goo.gl/JYrMRB

∙ Turbo File Editor für Android bietet Syntax-Highlighting und mehr
- mobiflip.de http://goo.gl/GYhoU0

∙ App Turbo Editor promete otimizar a edição de arquivos no Android
- TudoCelular.com http://goo.gl/hkkr4t

∙ Turbo Editor: Um dos melhores editores de código para Android
- http://goo.gl/EUFZqA

BEST FEATURES
★ Completely Open Source text editor
★ Super cool theme with Material Icons
★ Optimized for both Smartphones and Tablets
★ Support for every type of text files
★ Root features
★ Syntax Highlight for HTML, XHTML, CSS, LESS, JS, PHP, PYTHON and many other languages
★ Support for Undo & Redo
★ Go To Line
★ Line Numbers
★ The Encoding is Auto-Detected but you can also edit it
★ Option to wrap the content if text is too large
★ Auto save mode to save files as you leave the application
★ Read only mode
★ Create files and folders a inside the app
★ Search files and folders
★ View the result on a web browser
★ Markdown Viewer integrated
★ Translated in many languages (a special thanks to all the translators!)
★ Movable on the SD card
★ Samsung Multiview support
And much more!

CONTRIBUTE
∙ Report an Issue on the Github page
https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/issues

∙ Translate the App
http://crowdin.com/project/turbo-client

∙ Be a part of the Turbo Text Editor community
http://j.mp/TurboEditorCommunity

∙ Do you like the app? Please comment and share on Twitter, Google Plus or wherever you like. Thanks!

FOLLOW US
∙ Me on Google Plus https://google.com/+VladMihalachi
∙ Me on Twitter https://twitter.com/vmihalachi
∙ Maskyn on Google Plus https://google.com/+Maskyn
∙ Maskyn on Twitter https://twitter.com/maskyngames

OTHER USEFUL LINKS
∙ XDA-Developers thread http://goo.gl/eqfyQE
∙ Reddit http://goo.gl/wnt8o0

Reviews

4.1

4,228 total

5 2,382

4 870

3 363

2 233

1 380

Rafal Wawrzyniak

Good but need to improve functionality The screen is not automaticaly scrolled down when I enter a new line at the bottom of the text area. To see that line I have to scroll the screen manually. The second thing is saving files. App needs to add a path. It's not possible to explore list of folders. Summary, this app is one of the best but needs to improve some functions to be perfect text editor.

Kaspar Siricenko

Well done app! Is it possible to make numbers and preprocessor statements in the code with different colors in C lang? And maybe change an algorithm of syntax highlight because its works with 1 second delay, kinda annoying.. But overall thanks for a good app :D

Alan Truly

Broken Regular expression find and replace Update: Regular expression find and replace broken in the current version and causes a crash when replacing a group. Hope this is fixed soon. An example of RegEx find and replace: find “(\d+)\/(\d+)“ replace with “day $2 of month $1“ and this “10/27“ becomes “day 27 of month 10“. It's the single most powerful feature of regular expressions.

Meet Divecha

This the best option amongst code editors I've come across on Android. But it's still not the best. I have to type full directory paths to save a file in a specific location. The keyboard doesn't work in landscape mode. Preview on web doesn't work. The only thing good about this app is the editing, nothing else.

beth a

Using my bluetooth keyboard: shift+arrows or ctrl-shift-arrows to select text doesn't work. Ctrl-tab to switch between open files doesn't work. Doesn't remember last directory accessed when opening a file. Works ok, but these features are important to me.

Devin Hill

Unusable with a physical keyboard The program did not allow me to enter any of the necessary symbols for programming except via the accesory bar, which renders it unusable for actually editing code in any reasonable way. Furthermore it would be wise to prerender more of the highlighting (or make an option to do this) so that it doesn't lag when scrolling as much.

User reviews

Rafal Wawrzyniak October 21, 2015

Kaspar Siricenko December 8, 2015

Alan Truly August 17, 2015

Meet Divecha May 1, 2017

beth a February 1, 2017

Devin Hill February 9, 2016

Varun m May 30, 2016

Only 601 lines shown I downloaded this app hoping to be able to view my long javascript files on mobile. I was dissapointed to see that only 601 lines are shown in it. Thinking it might be limitation of the free version i paid for paid version still it is showing 601 lines. I am very frustrated and dissapointed . Fix it and help me.

Hans Deeg July 6, 2016

Freezing issues On my phone (Galaxy S3 neo) it is unusable due to frequent short freezes. Also, the keyboard's spell check feature cannot be enabled whereas the (for me useless) syntax highlighting cannot be turned off.

Peter Bullert January 21, 2016

Turbo charged Yes it could have more features but then again, hate over bloated apps. It suits my needs. I have about 5 or so similar apps. Each one of them is serving me in a different way.

Hank Fisher February 26, 2017

LIMITED EXTERNAL KEYBOARD FUNCTIONALITY i really like this app; It's super easy to use, visually appealing (LOVE that black theme) and has all the settings / controls you need in the preferences menu. BUT because of the limited external keyboard functionality I cannot use ANY MODIFIER KEYS (SHIFT, CONTROL, ALT). In order to type Capital Letters, I have to use the CAPS LOCK key, which is slow, awkward and it doesn't do everything a SHIFT key does. I cannot select / cut / copy / paste text using the keyboard. (All of those tasks require intensive use of the modifier keys). AGAIN, if you use this app with your ONSCREEN KEYBOARD it's PERFECT. But if you use an EXTERNAL KEYBOARD, you won't be able to do what you expect to do.

Esrael Santillan December 11, 2015

Irritating keyboard bug If you switch to symbols, it will immediately go back to letters. I need to switch it to symbols 1 to 2 times before it will go steady to symbols set. Almost always, when i needed to type a special character like '-' or ':', I wrongly type letters instead due to the bug.

Hamza Abbad February 13, 2016

Very poor performances It freezes when you try to scroll the code view in a medium sized file, and when even you try to open a second file. Without mentioning that it may crash at any time. It can't be used for serious coding.

Dylan K. Taylor September 16, 2015

I like it but it has a few bugs Whenever I go to open a file, it defaults to the app's storage directory instead of the main SD card, i.e /sdcard/Android/data/blah blah, but still lists the folders that are in /sdcard. When I then try and open any of these folders there is nothing in them. This is an irritating bug. Fix this and I will up the rating to 5 stars

Dominick Byron November 18, 2016

Keyboard issues A recent update seems to have changed the way keyboard input works on at least two devices that I've tried. Issues: 1.) Sometimes I have to press keys multiple times for the character to be entered and 2.) sometimes switching from letters to symbols reverts back to letters too quickly.

Joe Moore December 26, 2015

Don't waste your time I installed, opened a new file, and pasted. The app would not let me scroll to the top of the page. I was unable to even see the first few lines let alone edit.

Peter Steinhardt April 28, 2016

Looked OK, but it needs major bug fixes to be usable After trying this app out for about 2 minutes, it was freezing for 2-4 seconds every 3 lines of code I was looking through. I'm using KitKat 4.4.2. If you can fix the freezes let me know and I'll try your editor again. I was reading through a .vbs program.

A.E. Veltstra July 12, 2016

Shift-key fails to stick, fails to reopen file I like the syntax coloring. It can be improved to detect multiple code styles in an HTML file, for instance. But the inability to make a shift-key stick is rather disastrous. I'm using the Hackers' Keyboard. I haven't had this problem with any other app. Also, even though its settings accept a toggle to reopen the file automatically upon reopening the app, we're met with error messages instead (opening the same html file).

Nick Felker December 13, 2015

Nifty, weird about large text files I'm trying to open this text file (.CSV, 300 lines) on my sd card from ES File Explorer to this app. At first I'll get the loading dialog, but then it'll disappear and the "Open File" text will display on a blank background. There's a weird delay before actually displaying. Also, I keep having to move left and right between sections.

Daniel Torres December 8, 2016

Good! I was skeptical because there is no stellar text editor on the market, at least when it comes to reviews, but this one is actually quite good. it's not going to be sublime text on your phone, but is clean and functional and it's quite fun to type out some code, make little mobile sites on the train and stuff. Might be good for smaller edits for real projects, on the go, but let's be honest... you're not going to be writing your whole project on your phone. But you could!

Elijah Mason November 23, 2015

Glitch I actually started using turbo ftp client which is terrific. I could not stand the text editor it came with which happens to be this. It has extreamly irritating bugs in it. If you try to switch to characters it will switch back randomly. Same with caps. I was planning on giving the ftp a 3 star cus the text editor is so bad but the client is amazing so 5 stars for client, 1 for editor. Ok I'm off to find another editor!

monkey wraith October 13, 2015

on the verge of useful unable to use tabs; replaces with spaces with no option to not. also does not use file browser for save as, just a text box to type a path, which is unacceptable. has potential, i hope to change to a higher score in the future.

Perdol Kazantsev November 24, 2016

Tried to edit a txt with 200>lines but it cut it to 70(I guess). 70kb too much to handle, huh? Also, the buttons in the virtual keyboard sometimes doesn't react even If I tap directly on them. Also, it has some weird limit on characters in 1 line or whatever, and doesn't let you insert more symbols or split the line.

Eric Schwarzenbach May 6, 2017

This app works very poorly with keyboard apps like Swype. 1 I have to swipe really slowly for it to register. Is it sucking cpu? Trying to do its own smart word inference that inteferes with keyboard's? I don't know. Save dialog is awkward. How to open other file when editing one file without closing editor and starting over?

Joey Sullivan February 2, 2016

Looks like a great editor, but doesn't seem to work with root files. Any time I try to save a root file it says "An error occurred command number: 3 result code: 1 error lines:", even though it has been granted root permissions in SuperSU.

Garfield Davidson December 9, 2015

No CF for Windows It bugs me that I can't read files I type on my phone in Notepad (because it doesn't see the newlines). In light of this, a CRLF option would be nice.

August 12, 2016

Great app with one flaw Great UI and stability so far. Knocked off one star for the following issue: Once you have begun typing in a new file, there is no apparent way to discard that new file without saving.

Christopher Thiebaut April 9, 2016

Good, unless you have a bluetooth keyboard Works very well and has syntax highlighting with a variety of languages (but doesn't seem to understand some ruby constructs). However, this app ignores anything involving a shift key on my bluetooth keyboard. Other installed apps to register these key combinations. If you only plan to use the on-screen keyboard, this app is awesome. Otherwise, you can do better than an app that will not allow capital letters from your main keyboard.

Kera Ramsey February 1, 2016

Updates can be the worst This text editor used to be very reliable. However, stability was lost after an update. I kept using it anyway, but eventually I had to get a new phone. I sent Gmails to myself to transfer the text files, but this same app on the new phone opened only part of the file. I experienced similar problems with other text editors, until Jota Text Editor was finally able to open the complete file.

February 6, 2017

This one's the best text editor in the Play Store. Open-source, fast, free, and without ads! The list of recently opened files is a bonus. It allows you to save files on the SD card, which is awesome. You need to tweak a few settings to make it work well, such as enabling the file browser (storage framework). Also, swiping from the left brings up the menu, while swiping from the right shows the settings - this should be mentioned in a tutorial. Once you've set it up the way you want, this app rocks.

tespit eng November 12, 2016

Good for Small files only . I've tried to edit some subtitle (srt) files and it just crashed. Also cannot search files until it loads completely. Not good. Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet 5.1.1.

YanSolo Gaming November 14, 2015

So far, as i just downloaded it, i wanted to send a buddy of mine in the same Linux class of a bash script that works. Before i downloaded this app i was trying all ways to send a .txt file through sms but i couldn't, until, i found this app, this app was easy to navigate, didn't lag when opening the script. So, as of now 3 stars. I will update my review after I test it out for awhile. Thanks.

zingmars November 2, 2015

Overengineered and doesn't deliver Syntax highlighting is slow and causes the keyboard to reset all the time. Also completely disables any recommendation function custom keyboards have, and the UI tries to be pretty, but fails.

Elliander Eldridge November 6, 2015

Works if you don't need shift I use a bluetooth keyboard and downloaded this just to take notes in class. Unfortunately, if I hold the shift key to get a capital letter this program won't type anything. So shift means do nothing. I have to remember to press caps lock and then caps again. It's a larger issue for those symbols though. You can't get symbols by caps lock so I am prevented from using my keyboard for symbols entirely, so I can't take quick notes in computer science lecture. That could use fixing, especially since some symbols like $ is not possible from the bottom menu.

rise up August 25, 2015

great editor I feel some problem in keyboard, automatically change it, so i can't type 1,2,3,4,5 numerical numbers! plz solve this problem , otherwise,very helpful because of < ,>,!, these three keys! it is so easy for these keys. thank u developers

stvmaf8a December 7, 2016

I wouldn't waist $1.39 on the pro version because the free version has more options. This app is a useful function on editing files. I also used this on Dolphin Emulator since it is required.

Fabia April 9, 2016

It looks nice but it's unusable for me. It constantly switches cases to lowercase. It sometimes deletes a character I already written and I have to write extremely slow or it will miss half of the word. I didn't have the same problem with other editors, so I will stick with those.

James Matson November 28, 2015

KEYBOARD Useless with a physical (eg bluetooth) keyboard because you can't use the shift key to type symbols. I can't imagine how anyone could use it seriously without that working. Not everybody wants to use the onscreen symbol bar.

Seumas Mac Uilleachan November 6, 2015

I do really like this editor except that it completely ignores the shift key for some reason with an external USB keyboard. I can type abc but ABC comes out completely blank. Thus most punctuation is inaccessible. BTW this was typed on the same external usb keyboard. (add) it also ignores s-pen on Note 4.

A Google User April 30, 2016

Turbo Editor No backspace delete ?! Went no further. It's probably brilliant apart from that. Months later I forgot I had tried it, and installed it again. This time it seemed good, so I sent 3 leva. This was my mistake ! - it immediately "stopped", and when reloaded has a dark screen with white chars. and not very visible stops and coloured chars - and Sticks upon "swipe scroll" !! Also I don't want line numbers. I want a white screen with clear black chars. How do I get to the "source code" as a matter of interest ?

Vlad Mihalachi March 15, 2015

Hi Gerard, what is your issue? Can you send us an email so we can fix that?

simon giugni April 24, 2016

License gone I bought this as at the time it was the best editor, when I was reinstalling my phone I couldn't get back the full version that I had bought, so I was tricked into making a donation for the full version which didn't work. So basically I have paid for this app twice and I won't be giving you anymore money, if you want me to assess the app as a proficient web dev then give me my license back and I will write another review. I am quite sure it was the devs who deleted my licence between versions and not my er