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We've compiled a list of 10 free and paid alternatives to Textastic. The primary competitors include Notepad++, Vim. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Textastic and Visual Studio Code, Coda, TextMate. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


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Textastic is a text editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich support for syntax highlighting, FTP...

Textastic Platforms

iPad iPad
iPhone iPhone
Mac Mac

Textastic Video and Screenshots

Textastic Overview

Textastic is a text editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich support for syntax highlighting, FTP, SFTP and Dropbox.

FEATURES

• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages:
HTML, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, 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 external keyboard support
• Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming
• Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures
• 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
• 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:
• Over USB via iTunes File Sharing
• By using "Open In" in other apps
• Connect to (S)FTP and WebDAV servers, and Dropbox
• Over Wi-Fi with the built-in WebDAV server

Textastic Features

tick-square Local Storage
tick-square Syntax Highlighting
tick-square IDE
tick-square Dropbox integration
tick-square Support for FTP
tick-square Support for SFTP

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