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TextTool app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 1056 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Craig Pearlman
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.1.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 20 Nov 2013
App size: 3.34 Mb

TextTool is a text editor that makes it easy to manipulate text through multiple, built-in, powerful transformation options. If youve found yourself needing to sort, dedupe, split, join, change case, URL encode, or search and replace text, TextTool can help. With the use of a powerful API, TextTool can also be integrated into your complex workflows with ease.

FEATURES

* 28 different text transforms:

* Affix (add a prefix or suffix)
* Change Case (change to uppercase, lowercase, Sentence case, or Word Case)
* Comment/Uncomment (prefix lines with common source code comment characters or remove them)
* Encode/Decode (for URLs)
* Dedupe (remove duplicate lines)
* Entify/Deentify (applies HTML entities to text, such as "&" to "&" )
* List/Delist (prefix each line with a bullet, asterisk, hyphen, or number or remove it)
* Entab/Detab (translate tabs to spaces and vice versa)
* Educate/Simplify (add/remove smart quotes, hyphens, etc.)
* Escape/Unescape (for inclusion in text strings)
* Indent/Outdent (by tabs or spaces)
* Join/Split (join into one line or separate into multiple lines by delimiter)
* Pop/Shift (remove first or last line)
* Replace (simple search and replace)
* Regex (full regular expression support)
* Sort (sort lines of text)
* Trim (remove leading and trailing whitespace)
* Wrap (clean up text and word wrap it)

* Apply text transformations to all text in the editor or a selection only.
* Customizable options for many transforms.
* Ability to apply transforms by line of text.
* Multiple font options (fixed- and variable-width) and ability to control font size in-app.
* Ability to switch the text editor to and from fixed-width and variable-width fonts.
* Convenient gestures to aid editing, such as swipes to move by character.
* Full, multi-level undo support.
* Share text via clipboard, mail, message, or social services.
* Export text to other apps on your device via Open In.
* Universal app. Buy it once for both iPhone and iPad.
* All text transformations available via x-callback-url.
* TextExpander touch shared snippet support and support for fill-ins.
* Full support for external keyboards including keyboard shortcuts (and iOS 9s shortcuts discovery features).
* Fully 64-bit compliant.
* Fully supports iOS 9 and all iOS device sizes.
* Fully compatible with iOS 9s Side by Side and Slide Over.
* Detailed help and x-callback-url documentation available in-app.

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Pros and cons of TextTool app for iPhone and iPad

TextTool app good for

If you love Markdown, you will adore TextTool. This App is "awk" in your pocket. :-) Exzellent x-callback-URL integration.
Where TextTool has found its way into my workflow is as the engine behind a lot of the text-processing I do in Agile Tortoise’s Drafts app. Being able to send text to TextTool to change case, search-and-replace, educate quotes, or wrap/unwrap lines has proven to be a real timesaver. Effectively, this inexpensive combination serves as a great BBEdit stand-in on my iPhone and iPad.
If you are putting together some kind of text based workflow youll find a useful toolbox of text tools in this application.

Some bad moments

Ive used it several times a day since it launched. It ought to be priced at $9.99. Buy it.
The buttons dont change when pressed so its not obvious whether the effect has happened or not. Otherwise, an excellent utilitarian app.
This is a great app to use with Drafts. I initially had some problems coming up with a custom URL to send my text in Drafts to TextTool. In less than 12 hours, Craig had replied with a good-to-go URL & its working awesome fine now! Way rocks!! Keep it up guys!
This is a huge time saver when I need to quickly encode/decode a url or I need to prepare a markdown note. It also helps that the UI is nice.
Makes it easy to construct sql IN clauses with custom delimiters. Sorting works great. Very useful.
Very powerful text manipulation using Regular Expressions (RegEx), as well as simple reformatting and character substitutions. You will not find anything better-suited for this purpose on iOS. Well worth the price.