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Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
https://github.com/jecelyin/920-text-editor-v2/

A competent text editor with tabbing and syntax highlighting in many languages.

I tested version 1 and 2 of this. Version 2 shows promise but can’t use external files.

  • Abandoned – Not updated in three years and has outstanding bugs.

  • External storage access optional



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Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
https://github.com/gsantner/markor
was gsantner.net/project/markor.html

A particularly powerful plain text editor

It’s a great text editor, but its todo.txt functionality is wholly unusable and won’t be fixed.

  • External storage access optional



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Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
was simplemobiletools.com/notes/

The pro version never had all the features of the free version.

I loved the free version, but it was discontinued.

  • Abandoned – As of 2024-08-30 last updated 2023-09-19, and removed from the developer’s website some time after 2022-12-27. The store version bugs out.



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Software > Text editors >

https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed (“distraction-free”).

I started using it because I couldn’t trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.

Although I’ve used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.



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