Text editor SimpleEditorFree

Igor Luchkin

About this app

Plain text editor SimpleEditorFree.

Editor features:
* create, open, modify and save files in different encodings (txt, xml, html, css, svg files...)
* search and replace in file
* undo the last changes (see Notes)
* send the contents of the editor window (by e-mail, SMS, etc.)
* in reading mode, open large files (more than 1 GB)
* keep a list of recently opened files
* reads system folders
* voice typing
* automatically detect file encoding (see Notes)

NOTES.
1) If in edit mode you try to open a large file, then there will be delays when opening and scrolling.
The optimal file size depends on the type of file (text or binary) and device performance.
2) Binary files may be displayed with loss of information (some bytes of the file cannot be converted to text).
3) Limitations of the free version: 40 encodings are available. During the editing process, you can undo the last 30 changes.

Ratings and reviews

This is perfgect for my purposes. The title says it all: simple. I wasn't looking for any "bells or whistles." I only wanted a very basic app for creating .txt files on my Android smartphone. Once I figured out how to attach files to the phone's email app I was happy (that issue was from my email app, not SimpleEditor. Any mistakes I make in a .txt file I plan to fix from my PC. Thank you for this app.

Can't delete a file (typical non-functionality of Microsoft editors, but nearly all other editors can delete a file). No dark mode to save battery life. Similar to WordPad. Best Android editor I found, and I tried a dozen+. I will rate 5 stars when the editor has dark mode and deletes files. I have 2.8.8. I have not noticed any bugs. It works very well.

Pretty good. Only things I miss are: changing font size and sorting files/folders from A to Z. There's an annoyance in that when you leave and return, the document jumps to where the cursor/edit is at, instead of staying where you had scrolled to.

What’s new

New text encodings have been added.
The limit for undoing recent text changes has been increased.