What's New

Textastic 5.0 adds full support for macOS Big Sur with a refreshed user interface and an updated app icon. This release is a macOS Universal app, which can run natively on both Apple Silicon Macs and Intel-based Macs.

New:
• macOS Big Sur: fully updated for compatibility with the latest version of macOS.
• Universal app: runs natively on both Apple Silicon Macs and Intel-based Macs.

Fixed:
• Fixed "Open In…" performance problems on Macs with many CPU cores (e.g. Mac Pro).
• Improved declaration of supported file types so that it works better with other installed apps that can open the same kinds of files.
• Other minor fixes.

App Description

Textastic is a powerful and fast text, code, and markup editor.

• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages
• Supported file types include HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, Swift, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, shell scripts and many more
• Compatible with TextMate and Sublime Text 3 syntax definitions and themes
• Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, C, and Objective-C
• Open files in tabs
• Open folders in a sidebar
• Find in files
• Print files
• Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
• Emmet support built-in
• Auto Save and Versions
• iCloud document sync
• Full support for Dark Mode

Please note: You can use Textastic for iPad and iPhone to sync files between the Mac and iOS versions of Textastic using iCloud.

iPhone Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 17, 2014 Initial release
  • August 28, 2014 New version 3.0
  • September 22, 2015 New version 3.1
  • September 22, 2015 Price decrease: $8.99 -> $7.99
  • October 13, 2015 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $3.99
  • October 20, 2015 Price increase: $3.99 -> $7.99
  • July 13, 2016 New version 3.2
  • June 14, 2019 New version 4.0.1
  • July 15, 2020 New version 4.1
  • September 16, 2023 New version 5.0
  • September 16, 2023 Price increase: $7.99 -> $8.99

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