“Seems like an amazing app… but paywall — This seems like an amazing app based on everything I've seen, but everything is locked behind a paywall. Including viewing, creating, and editing code files, which is literally the purpose of a…”
Public review signal · 318 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.7 ★2,532 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
27 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Textastic is a comprehensive and versatile text and code editor for iPad and iPhone. It supports syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in SSH terminal to work directly on your server.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Paywall blocks the basics5 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Misleading — Downloaded the app thinking it was free, but you have to pay to use the app, you can’t create or edit files without paying :( sadly misleading”
“Free version is completely useless — The free version is only a placeholder. It cannot even read text files, let alone edit. Label it honestly with the $19.99 price tag.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.9.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown3
Lowest$2.99
Highest$69.99
Textastic Pro (Monthly)$2.99
Textastic Pro (Yearly)$19.99
Textastic Pro (One-Time)$69.99