Textastic Code Editor Negative Reviews

Textastic Code Editor App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Textastic Code Editor app received 17 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Textastic Code Editor? Can you share your negative thoughts about textastic code editor?

Textastic Code Editor for Negative User Reviews

✓ Not much use for web developmentEvidently there is no access mode that allows Textastic to edit files residing on a server by remote. This is a fundamental and crippling limitation for anything resembling a modern website, which will make use of server-side includes, session management, and database access on every page. I’m less annoyed that I wasted $10 than that my purchase rewards both Apple and the developers of Textastic for upselling a program that would have an awkward workflow by 1999 standards as a sleek and effortless development tool today. The static web page era is long over..GlroyalVersion: 7.1.2

✓ Developer ignores customer emails regarding failure of appThe developer continues to not respond to emails asking about why the SSH feature ALWAYS fails on a keyboard-interactive session. Any typical SSH with a remote server requires the ability to have a keyboard interactive session, and so the primary reason I downloaded this app is basically unsupported. More specifically, using DUO authentication only works up to the point where you have to specify the authentication method, and then fails once you enter a response to the prompt in the Textastic terminal. Please fix the SSH issue we’re experiencing! We paid for a feature that doesn’t work! :(.ThePeaceGuyVersion: 8.1

✓ Poor user experiencePoor user experience. Unintuitive. No text editor or viewer on sftp. Have to use Nano. No settings for shell window ie background. The only positive is multiple shell windows can be open. Will be looking at the other positive reviews closely..JohnmacusokeefeVersion: 7.0.3

✓ TyDropbox API broke in the previous version so forced to “upgrade” to this version which has no improvements if you don’t have an iPad Pro..User538234Version: 6.4.1

✓ Bit awkward at first. Great keyboardKeeps asking me to rate it, even though I wrote this review ages ago. Now I rewrite review. Don’t use Copy-paste it breaks. Don’t trust file locations, it mucks them up. and Please developers, don’t keep interrupting my work repeatedly asking for a rating when I’ve already rated, or you get 1/5.Velvet PantherVersion: 9.3

✓ Poor ux on iphone, unresponsive developerThe ux on iphone has useless bars blocking valuable screen real estate. I messaged the dev my thoughts. no response. devent enough app. i use it for reading source code. it could be a lot better if bars hide the way we expect in modern apps..PhilosopherdogVersion: 7.1.2

✓ Matching open/close bracketsMatching open/close brackets still missing. 🙁.2xbfxVersion: 9.0

✓ Absolutely fantasticLayout is beautiful. Themes are great. Great effort gone into this editor. Slightly Biased because i only have a years worth of self taught experience, and its my first piece of development software for iPad. In love though. Environment *context* is important for me to feel comfortable whilst trying to work. Visually and mentally. This software aids that. Perfect for me. As an amateur web developer trying to learn my trade i have been experimenting in setting up my development environments 1. On my mac 2. On my iPad. One for use of portability and one for home when the kids are asleep. I love my macbook but its not convenient sometimes. Having spent days researching and not wanting to wind myself up downloading freebies and gongs through trials I decided just to invest. I wanted something plain and simple but with a bit of complexity, this app was attractive in that way, in essence it could of been a gamble. I have spent all nite finally piecing together a portfolio i sketched up a while a go, and i have to say i am more than impressed. Especially for an average web developer like me. Using the app has also helped me learn a few things in respect to development, already. I can create a full website (For advertising no backend logic) and deploy to my domain. And make it accessible across all devices in just html. I have jumped from information to information i have confused myself and my learning process. This app may have just helped me get back on track!! Thank you..Justb86Version: 7.1.2

✓ Good to navigate, good customization optionsWould be great to have vim-mode on this as an improvement for those of us who like to use vim motion keys to edit if external keyboard is attached..Zhcl95Version: 9.9.2

✓ Frequent crashes and session closesApp frequently crashes and ssh shell no longer persists in background as was the case in previous versions. It was great before the last few updates..26365rseer vzufgyicVersion: 10.1

✓ Keeps crashing with magic keyboardPlenty of features, it’s a almost exactly the text editor I wanted, but when I paste a few lines of text and click and drag upwards with the trackpad (Magic Keyboard) to select parts to delete, it hard crashes every single time. The app window becomes unresponsive and after about 20 seconds the app just vanishes and kicks me back to the home screen. I can’t really trust it at the moment, as well as being annoying this could result in lost work..Calistan's iOS accountVersion: 9.3

✓ No C# code completionNo trial version of the app, and once I bought it, realised there is no .net/c# code completion. It's not mentioned in the description, but it supports C, I guess i assumed too much.HonourityVersion: 9.8.7

✓ SSH connection issuesMay or may not be a good editor, but I couldn’t connect to a remote server using an SSH keypair after ten minutes of struggling. This should take 5, maybe 10 seconds..FredPret_Version: 9.8.1

✓ Needs UNIVERSAL PURCHASE!!This app is great and I want to make it my main text editor but why do I have to buy it twice to use on my MacBook? It’s not impossible to make apps universal anymore as Apple has officially created a way to do so between Mac and iOS. Dropped another star, It needs to be able to open folders from more places. Not just iCloud. I would like to open folders from places like OneDrive and I am unable to do so. If I have a Windows PC and upload files and folders to OneDrive to continue work on a different device, I am unable to do it with this app. The only solution would be to go to the OneDrive app on the iPad and transfer the files to iCloud to work with this app, however that presents many problems like two different sets of folders (one for iCloud and one for OneDrive). Please fix and also add universal purchase so I can download on a MacBook. These fixes would make it the perfect text editor for me definitely worthy of 5 stars in my opinion..The One Piece Is Real!Version: 9.2.1

✓ Great editor but lacks support for modern JavaScript syntaxTextastic is a very good code editor. It integrates with Working Copy for git support making the duo a solid dev option for iOS. The only problem is syntax highlighting for JavaScript doesn’t support modern ECMAScript syntax. If your code has template literals containing single quotes, it thinks the rest of your file is one big unterminated string. Once that’s fixed, it deserves a 5 star rating..BrouskyVersion: 6.4.3

✓ No Google Drive Support = No Good ReviewI am unable to use this without Gdrive support. PLZ.MaximusprimateVersion: 9.8.8

✓ Hangs or CrashesWorking with external folders, particularly those in Working Copy the app hangs for 10 minutes or crashes..Another CommuterVersion: 7.1.2

Textastic Code Editor works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact Textastic Code Editor.