Simple Text Editor

maxistar

About this app

This is simple text editor that can help you with editing text files.

This editor mostly used by me for small text notes, write down ideas while I have a break.

Supports only plain text files at the moment.

The code is open so can review code, send pull requests, new features, translations and so on. https://github.com/maxistar/TextPad.

Any suggestions for this project are welcomed. Thank you!

Ratings and reviews

This app is not fancy but I can keep it open on my phone and every time I make a note in it and toggle out to something else it saves the text file that I am working on. I am presently going through some medical issues and I am keeping records in this app. It is nice because every time I toggle out or shut off my phone it saves what I have written. So I definitely recommend it.

This is a nice text editor. The user interface is not too complicated, and very intuitive. There is just enough flexibility to let the user do a little customizing of the UI. One of the three supported fonts is a monospace font, which is nice. The default is black text on white background, but this can be switched to white text on black background, which saves battery power and is easier to use in darkened rooms or at night.

This app works. However there is no scroll bar you can move and you just have to swipe down over and over, so long files are a royal pain. There is also no way to have it display one line as one line and scroll sideways to see excess text; instead it forcibly adds a line return so you can see all the text on one screen no matter what, just like MS/Windows Notepad. These make this app truly terrible for technical files with a lot of data (for example cfg files)... which is what I wanted it for.

What’s new

- Show warning if file is opened in read-only mode