Lightweight Text Editor

Name: Lightweight Text Editor
Rating: 4.4 (48 reviews)
Author: Erik Wegener

By: Erik Wegener

Productivity

Features & Capabilities

Lightweight Text Editor is a great tool for users who work with plain text files.

If you want to work with raw text without having to worry about formatting, then this app is for you. It can open any plain text file, regardless of the extension.

You can create folders to organize your documents.

You can also change the encoding and the line endings (CR/LF/CRLF).

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Erik Wegener

Rating:

4.40

(48) 3 new ratings

Version:

1.0 Last updated: 2024-06-09

Version code:

866547283

Creation date:

2022-06-06

Compatible devices:

Size:

1.14MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-30

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 203,707 ▲ 4,731

Other rankings

#8 in text editor keyword 17 #14 in local processing keyword 8 ▼ 2#63 in css editor keyword 26 ▲ 2#69 in text expander keyword 45 ▼ 15

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Developed by:

Erik Wegener

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lightweight-text-editor/id1626906348

Website:

http://wegenerlabs.com

User Reviews

Users praise Lightweight Text Editor for its minimal, fast, and straightforward approach to plain text. It’s favored by those who want a simple tool that does not enforce formatting or cloud storage, and can be used offline. It excels at stripping formatted text and exporting plain text, while offering basic font customization. Recurrent positives include its simplicity and reliability, and its light memory footprint. Reported drawbacks are occasional issues with exporting, file management (saved files ending up in a Documents folder and hard to relocate), and a few UI quirks like non-persistent window size.

Pros

Simple, minimalist, lightweight editor
Does what it’s designed to do: easy plain-text editing and quick plain-text pasting
Works offline with no subscription or cloud needed
Low memory usage / stripped-down footprint
Easy to save / reliable save functionality

Cons

Recent reviews

This app lives up to its name perfectly - it’s simple to use, a few minimalistic features and clean. For many things I don’t feel I need all the extra flashy features of a word processor but rather just a simple place to type and make sure my indentation is clean and consistent and this does just that. I think it’s a small step up from Apple’s built-in text editor in all the right ways.

by Ab*****, 2026-06-05

The basic test editor I was searching for a while. Finally I found this one.

by Sa*****, 2026-05-21

So far this app is doing what I hoped (I’ve been using it only a few times in the one week since I downloaded it.) This app took a plaintext image transcription created by Google Gemini 3 and retained the layout and spacing. Google Gemini creates transcriptions in a Plaintext format that I could not easily figure out how to get MS Word or Google Docs to retain. This gem did the task by default, no special keys or menu gyrations. Simple copy & paste in to Text Editor. This is a very good addition to my toolkit.