# Lightweight Text Editor

> Productivity

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1626906348](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1626906348)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1626906348`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Erik Wegener
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (57 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-08
- **First published:** 2022-06-06
- **Size:** 1.45 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lightweight-text-editor/id1626906348)
- **Website:** [https://wegenerlabs.com](https://wegenerlabs.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://wegenerlabs.com/lte-privacy.html](http://wegenerlabs.com/lte-privacy.html)

## Description

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).

## Rankings

- #170,809 — Overall
- #7 — text editor
- #9 — local processing
- #38 — text expander
- #70 — css editor

## Review summary

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

## Similar extensions and apps

- [Raw Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6759898365) — 2.00 / 5
- [EZText - Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1616281411) — 4.20 / 5
- [Text2File](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6756366245)
- [Plain Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1572202501) — 4.40 / 5
- [Only Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761506422) — 5.00 / 5
- [RawText](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6756032324) — 3.00 / 5
- [Plain Text Total Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6759176869) — 1.00 / 5
- [Plain Text Editor By MCK](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1536423489) — 3.00 / 5
- [Textory](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6770279803) — 5.00 / 5
- [TXT Editor - Notepad](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6737985816) — 3.70 / 5
- [TextEdit - Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1070883678) — 3.70 / 5
- [Notepad - Quick Text Editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6786422783)

---

Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1626906348)