TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor
Edit, Search, Annotate & Share
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5.4.6for iPhone, iPad and more
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About TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor
TEXTkraft is a professional text editor and document reader app, crafted for your personal text revolution ...
Processing and archiving pure text is the safest way to free yourself from dictates of companies, platforms and formats. TEXTkraft documents will still be opened without a special app or device in the distant future.
Manage, edit, and encrypt texts, notes, web research, and PDF files. TEXTkraft 5 was redesigned with the user experience from over a decade and optimized for modern devices.
Because continuous support is our strength!
- Documents and links in a sidebar, directly accessible
- Markdown or styled text
- Headings and text styles w/o explicit text selection
- Magic Keyboard & other keyboards, incl. key shortcuts
- Scribble (handwriting with Apple Pencil) on iPad
- Voice dictation
- Modern and safe Apple file browser
- Clouds, local device storage & USB sticks
- Opens documents at place
… doesn't create copies if you don't want
- Encrypt content before storing it
- Uncompromisingly anti-spy guarantee
… no data is transferred for profiling or marketing!
- Create or open PDFs...
… search, annotate, zoom, open links & share again
… draw and markup with finger or pencil
- PDF sketch pad for notes
- Easy to use search function marks all hits
- Find & replace with regular expressions (aka grep)
- Make non-breaking and normal spaces, tabs & hard line breaks visible
- Text statistics
- Multilingual proofreading
- Synonyms and context related words
- AI works local on the device (!)
- Learn (and forget) unknown words
- Fast & easy cursor navigation
- Change case & set quotes and brackets w/o cumbersome text selection!
- Unlimited undo/redo & forward delete key
- Speak, spell, and translate
- Stepless zooming with a pinch gesture
- Apple's Dynamic Type support
- Great import & export features...
… share text in all variations
… including printing, PDF creation, with or w/o annotations
… messages, e-mails, with or w/o attachments
… inter-app communication
… and HTML conversion
- One-tap Share Extension to collect text, files & links in other apps
- Inbox with text joining options for collected snippets
- Quick access to Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikipedia & other sources
- iPad Split View, Slide Over & Stage Manager...
… supports drag & drop and copy & paste with automatic format conversion
- Individual customization
- Pretty in light & dark mode
- Integrated support function
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Terms and conditions for auto-renewing subscriptions:
TEXTkraft can be evaluated free of charge!
If you continue usage, you must purchase a license with a one-time payment or rent it by a subscription. Payment will be charged to the iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
If you choose an auto-renewable subscription, it automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged the same amount for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.
Subscriptions may be managed, and auto-renewal may be turned off after purchase by going to the iTunes Account Settings or the "Manage License" option directly in the app. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Processing and archiving pure text is the safest way to free yourself from dictates of companies, platforms and formats. TEXTkraft documents will still be opened without a special app or device in the distant future.
Manage, edit, and encrypt texts, notes, web research, and PDF files. TEXTkraft 5 was redesigned with the user experience from over a decade and optimized for modern devices.
Because continuous support is our strength!
- Documents and links in a sidebar, directly accessible
- Markdown or styled text
- Headings and text styles w/o explicit text selection
- Magic Keyboard & other keyboards, incl. key shortcuts
- Scribble (handwriting with Apple Pencil) on iPad
- Voice dictation
- Modern and safe Apple file browser
- Clouds, local device storage & USB sticks
- Opens documents at place
… doesn't create copies if you don't want
- Encrypt content before storing it
- Uncompromisingly anti-spy guarantee
… no data is transferred for profiling or marketing!
- Create or open PDFs...
… search, annotate, zoom, open links & share again
… draw and markup with finger or pencil
- PDF sketch pad for notes
- Easy to use search function marks all hits
- Find & replace with regular expressions (aka grep)
- Make non-breaking and normal spaces, tabs & hard line breaks visible
- Text statistics
- Multilingual proofreading
- Synonyms and context related words
- AI works local on the device (!)
- Learn (and forget) unknown words
- Fast & easy cursor navigation
- Change case & set quotes and brackets w/o cumbersome text selection!
- Unlimited undo/redo & forward delete key
- Speak, spell, and translate
- Stepless zooming with a pinch gesture
- Apple's Dynamic Type support
- Great import & export features...
… share text in all variations
… including printing, PDF creation, with or w/o annotations
… messages, e-mails, with or w/o attachments
… inter-app communication
… and HTML conversion
- One-tap Share Extension to collect text, files & links in other apps
- Inbox with text joining options for collected snippets
- Quick access to Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikipedia & other sources
- iPad Split View, Slide Over & Stage Manager...
… supports drag & drop and copy & paste with automatic format conversion
- Individual customization
- Pretty in light & dark mode
- Integrated support function
---
Terms and conditions for auto-renewing subscriptions:
TEXTkraft can be evaluated free of charge!
If you continue usage, you must purchase a license with a one-time payment or rent it by a subscription. Payment will be charged to the iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
If you choose an auto-renewable subscription, it automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged the same amount for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.
Subscriptions may be managed, and auto-renewal may be turned off after purchase by going to the iTunes Account Settings or the "Manage License" option directly in the app. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in the Latest Version 5.4.6
Last updated on Apr 12, 2024
Old Versions
Speed & Stability release with many detail improvements.
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Version History
5.4.6
Apr 12, 2024
Speed & Stability release with many detail improvements.
5.4.5
Jun 28, 2023
Proofreader enhancements:
- Choose from a selection of synonyms and context related words
- Insert corrections before and after the current word instead of always replacing it
- Fewer suggestions with higher relevance
- Better handling of word combinations with hyphens
- All new AI/NLP functions are working on the device
- ... no data send anywhere
More:
- Fixed problems with zooming/pinching text
- Inserting text could lead to the insertion of wrong text fragments when using emojis
- Showing invisible characters is now much more performant
- Emojis no longer mess up the placements of the invisible chars
- Make normal spaces visible
- The "Document has been modified" warning doesn't appear multiple times in a row when we continue editing a document on two or more devices at the same time.
- Improved Mac Silicon compatibility
- Better handling of peculiarities of various cloud services
- Minor speed improvements
- Choose from a selection of synonyms and context related words
- Insert corrections before and after the current word instead of always replacing it
- Fewer suggestions with higher relevance
- Better handling of word combinations with hyphens
- All new AI/NLP functions are working on the device
- ... no data send anywhere
More:
- Fixed problems with zooming/pinching text
- Inserting text could lead to the insertion of wrong text fragments when using emojis
- Showing invisible characters is now much more performant
- Emojis no longer mess up the placements of the invisible chars
- Make normal spaces visible
- The "Document has been modified" warning doesn't appear multiple times in a row when we continue editing a document on two or more devices at the same time.
- Improved Mac Silicon compatibility
- Better handling of peculiarities of various cloud services
- Minor speed improvements
5.4.4
May 6, 2023
New features:
- iPhones and iPad minis have a tabulator key on the keyboard menu or the compact menu button when screen width is limited
Fixed problems:
- Avoiding panic messages in situations where saving was interrupted by bad internet connections, while we had a local copy for later syncing. (TEXTkraft wanted to set an example of correct information here, but you hated it and we hear you.)
- Selecting a custom font was broken with iOS 16
- German localization improvements
- Restoring a purchase works without app restart in 99% of all cases
- iPhones and iPad minis have a tabulator key on the keyboard menu or the compact menu button when screen width is limited
Fixed problems:
- Avoiding panic messages in situations where saving was interrupted by bad internet connections, while we had a local copy for later syncing. (TEXTkraft wanted to set an example of correct information here, but you hated it and we hear you.)
- Selecting a custom font was broken with iOS 16
- German localization improvements
- Restoring a purchase works without app restart in 99% of all cases
5.4.3
Mar 11, 2023
New features:
- Faster back and forth with multiple documents
- New toggles in the sidebar ...
1) Read-Only mode:
- Prevent typing, dropping or pasting
- No accidental changes
- No "opening" of the keyboard
- Switch can be hidden in settings
2) Switch Invisibles:
- Show/hide all invisible chars
- ... you selected in Settings before
- ... with just one tap
3) Show styles:
- Plain text with markdown or visible styles
- Moved from the top bar to the sidebar
- ... now switch it even before loading
Many bug fixes and optimizations.
- Faster back and forth with multiple documents
- New toggles in the sidebar ...
1) Read-Only mode:
- Prevent typing, dropping or pasting
- No accidental changes
- No "opening" of the keyboard
- Switch can be hidden in settings
2) Switch Invisibles:
- Show/hide all invisible chars
- ... you selected in Settings before
- ... with just one tap
3) Show styles:
- Plain text with markdown or visible styles
- Moved from the top bar to the sidebar
- ... now switch it even before loading
Many bug fixes and optimizations.
5.4.2
Jan 12, 2023
New Settings:
- Make non-breaking spaces, tabulator characters and/or hard line breaks visible on demand
Fixed problems:
-Unreliable saving when exiting the app quickly after text changes and when internet connections are disrupted
- Scaling text with the pinch gesture
- Reaching Indian (Hindi) wikis
- Problems with emoji characters
- Other minor inconsistencies and blemishes
- Make non-breaking spaces, tabulator characters and/or hard line breaks visible on demand
Fixed problems:
-Unreliable saving when exiting the app quickly after text changes and when internet connections are disrupted
- Scaling text with the pinch gesture
- Reaching Indian (Hindi) wikis
- Problems with emoji characters
- Other minor inconsistencies and blemishes
5.4.1
Jan 2, 2023
Speed & Stability release with many detail improvements.
5.4
Dec 3, 2022
Servus, Grüezi und Hallo!
- TEXTkraft now speaks German if you want
- Formatted text and Markdown sharing improved
- HTML can be converted to text on load
- Airdrop from one TEXTkraft app to another
- More iOS/iPadOS 16+ compatibility
- Updated help content
iPad improvements:
- Fixed problems with Stage Manager
- Optimized settings window size
- Close with Cmd+W: Only files, not the app itself
- TEXTkraft now speaks German if you want
- Formatted text and Markdown sharing improved
- HTML can be converted to text on load
- Airdrop from one TEXTkraft app to another
- More iOS/iPadOS 16+ compatibility
- Updated help content
iPad improvements:
- Fixed problems with Stage Manager
- Optimized settings window size
- Close with Cmd+W: Only files, not the app itself
5.3.2
Nov 2, 2022
- iPadOS 16.1 compatibility
- Repaired broken keyboard shortcuts
- New progress dialog when file opening takes longer than 2-3 seconds
- Improved web page handling and Safari window
- News, Privacy Policy and Legal Notice are displayed in the content area again
- The styling menu did not always showed the correct style for the current cursor position
- Fixed problems with legacy Mac OS Roman encoding and Windows line breaks
- Long press on URLs is more reliable now
- Fixed problems when the text contains emojis or other multi byte characters
- Repaired broken keyboard shortcuts
- New progress dialog when file opening takes longer than 2-3 seconds
- Improved web page handling and Safari window
- News, Privacy Policy and Legal Notice are displayed in the content area again
- The styling menu did not always showed the correct style for the current cursor position
- Fixed problems with legacy Mac OS Roman encoding and Windows line breaks
- Long press on URLs is more reliable now
- Fixed problems when the text contains emojis or other multi byte characters
5.3.1
Sep 28, 2022
Say hello to the iPhone!
TEXTkraft 5 is now a universal app for iPhone & iPad.
- New with iOS 16: Tap a text title to directly switch to another quick access document
- We added a great subscription deal when you use TEXTkraft just on iPhones
- The share extension is more reliable when transferring files to TEXTkraft
- Fixed problems when changing the display orientation
- Better handling of long filenames
- Infinitely running spinner after closing a PDF calmed down
- External keyboard Cmd+W closes PDFs
- Usual cosmetics
TEXTkraft 5 is now a universal app for iPhone & iPad.
- New with iOS 16: Tap a text title to directly switch to another quick access document
- We added a great subscription deal when you use TEXTkraft just on iPhones
- The share extension is more reliable when transferring files to TEXTkraft
- Fixed problems when changing the display orientation
- Better handling of long filenames
- Infinitely running spinner after closing a PDF calmed down
- External keyboard Cmd+W closes PDFs
- Usual cosmetics
5.3
Sep 20, 2022
Say hello to iPhone!
TEXTkraft 5 is now one universal app for iPhone & iPad.
- Fixes for iOS 16
- The magic Aa function can create proper names like "iPhone" (internal majuskel)
- Now use custom mail apps with the "Your Feedback" function
- We added device, system and version infos to the feedback sheet
- Fixed a problem when switching renewable licenses of different kind
- The proofreader is now updating correctly when using the Next/Prev buttons
- Improved Cmd+cursor key up/down on external keyboards with large documents
- Minor text changes
TEXTkraft 5 is now one universal app for iPhone & iPad.
- Fixes for iOS 16
- The magic Aa function can create proper names like "iPhone" (internal majuskel)
- Now use custom mail apps with the "Your Feedback" function
- We added device, system and version infos to the feedback sheet
- Fixed a problem when switching renewable licenses of different kind
- The proofreader is now updating correctly when using the Next/Prev buttons
- Improved Cmd+cursor key up/down on external keyboards with large documents
- Minor text changes
5.2.1
Aug 27, 2022
Version 5.2.1
- Deleting a return at the end of a paragraph moved the cursor at a wrong place
- Fixed a problem with undo actions used in combination with heading styles
- Using a keyboard while the file browser was open led to layout problems
- Open files which got renamed/moved were not always accessible
- Redesign of the path display in Text Info pane; tap it for more info!
- We are not jumping to the end of the selection anymore when applying text styles
Version 5.2
New functions:
- Switching between a multistyle or a plain text markdown editor at any time
- Settings: Choose if text should be styled or with markdown right after loading
- Predifined headings and text styles available on the keyboard toolbars
- Share multistyle or markdown text
- Paste and drop styled text to TEXTkraft
- File info function for PDF in the top toolbar
Bugs RIP:
- Some TK4 docs showed a wrong save state (apparently saving forever)
- Automatic line ending correction works for files larger than 3 KB
- We can now handle files with mixed and broken line endings
- Split View with onscreen keyboard prevented the last line of text from being visible
- The inbox button on the keyboard toolbar was not correctly updated in any case
- When the user tried encryption with biometric hardware offline or not cleared we crashed
- We crashed when pressing cursor down on a hardware keyboard in an empty document
Other improvements:
- The hashtag is now a valid word character for cursor navigation and selection tools
- Better error management on startup when referenced files are missing
- Faster toolbar update and better layout when app size changes
- Several improvements for slower iPads and smaller screens
- Some buttons labels were truncated when Dynamic Text was set to large text
- Some icon, layout, font and text updates
- Deleting a return at the end of a paragraph moved the cursor at a wrong place
- Fixed a problem with undo actions used in combination with heading styles
- Using a keyboard while the file browser was open led to layout problems
- Open files which got renamed/moved were not always accessible
- Redesign of the path display in Text Info pane; tap it for more info!
- We are not jumping to the end of the selection anymore when applying text styles
Version 5.2
New functions:
- Switching between a multistyle or a plain text markdown editor at any time
- Settings: Choose if text should be styled or with markdown right after loading
- Predifined headings and text styles available on the keyboard toolbars
- Share multistyle or markdown text
- Paste and drop styled text to TEXTkraft
- File info function for PDF in the top toolbar
Bugs RIP:
- Some TK4 docs showed a wrong save state (apparently saving forever)
- Automatic line ending correction works for files larger than 3 KB
- We can now handle files with mixed and broken line endings
- Split View with onscreen keyboard prevented the last line of text from being visible
- The inbox button on the keyboard toolbar was not correctly updated in any case
- When the user tried encryption with biometric hardware offline or not cleared we crashed
- We crashed when pressing cursor down on a hardware keyboard in an empty document
Other improvements:
- The hashtag is now a valid word character for cursor navigation and selection tools
- Better error management on startup when referenced files are missing
- Faster toolbar update and better layout when app size changes
- Several improvements for slower iPads and smaller screens
- Some buttons labels were truncated when Dynamic Text was set to large text
- Some icon, layout, font and text updates
5.2
Aug 25, 2022
New functions:
- Switching between a multistyle or a plain text markdown editor at any time
- Settings: Choose if text should be styled or with markdown right after loading
- Predifined headings and text styles available on the keyboard toolbars
- Share multistyle or markdown text
- Paste and drop styled text to TEXTkraft
- File info function for PDF in the top toolbar
Bugs RIP:
- Some TK4 docs showed a wrong save state (apparently saving forever)
- Automatic line ending correction works for files larger than 3 KB
- We can now handle files with mixed and broken line endings
- Split View with onscreen keyboard prevented the last line of text from being visible
- The inbox button on the keyboard toolbar was not correctly updated in any case
- When the user tried encryption with biometric hardware offline or not cleared we crashed
- We crashed when pressing cursor down on a hardware keyboard in an empty document
Other improvements:
- The hashtag is now a valid word character for cursor navigation and selection tools
- Better error management on startup when referenced files are missing
- Faster toolbar update and better layout when app size changes
- Several improvements for slower iPads and smaller screens
- Some buttons labels were truncated when Dynamic Text was set to large text
- Some icon, layout, font and text updates
- Switching between a multistyle or a plain text markdown editor at any time
- Settings: Choose if text should be styled or with markdown right after loading
- Predifined headings and text styles available on the keyboard toolbars
- Share multistyle or markdown text
- Paste and drop styled text to TEXTkraft
- File info function for PDF in the top toolbar
Bugs RIP:
- Some TK4 docs showed a wrong save state (apparently saving forever)
- Automatic line ending correction works for files larger than 3 KB
- We can now handle files with mixed and broken line endings
- Split View with onscreen keyboard prevented the last line of text from being visible
- The inbox button on the keyboard toolbar was not correctly updated in any case
- When the user tried encryption with biometric hardware offline or not cleared we crashed
- We crashed when pressing cursor down on a hardware keyboard in an empty document
Other improvements:
- The hashtag is now a valid word character for cursor navigation and selection tools
- Better error management on startup when referenced files are missing
- Faster toolbar update and better layout when app size changes
- Several improvements for slower iPads and smaller screens
- Some buttons labels were truncated when Dynamic Text was set to large text
- Some icon, layout, font and text updates
5.1
Jun 1, 2022
Bugs RIP:
- The Recents menu behind the app icon is now switching documents correctly
- The sidebar was sometimes not closing in compact mode (e.g. narrow Split View)
- Text Info showed a large cryptic path instead of a readable relative version in some cases
- Sharing a file does not create a temporary copy anymore, it uses the original file
- The automatic text encoding detection was not working properly in all situations. Some of our European friends lost accents. Many thanks to Jean-François and Philippe working this out with us!
- We are now more resilient when unwanted control characters find their way into our app
- We had lots of crazy effects when we copied or dragged text from MS Word to TEXTkraft
- When the "Keep encoding" setting is on, we now preserve the line endings, so the files stay compatible with the devices they were created on
New functions:
- Open PDF documents: we can search, annotate, draw (finger + pencil), open links, zoom and share
- We can create an empty PDF sketch pad with the "New File" command
- The Share extension of TEXTkraft can open text files and PDF documents at place or copy them
- Text selections are still forwarded without interaction to the Share extension inbox
- We can import files to the "Textkraft 5/Import" directory on local storage or on iCloud
- The "New File" command is now reachable via keyboard shortcut Cmd+N
- When your text cannot be saved with all special characters in the selected text encoding, we offer to switch to UTF-8 instantly
- The Recents menu behind the app icon is now switching documents correctly
- The sidebar was sometimes not closing in compact mode (e.g. narrow Split View)
- Text Info showed a large cryptic path instead of a readable relative version in some cases
- Sharing a file does not create a temporary copy anymore, it uses the original file
- The automatic text encoding detection was not working properly in all situations. Some of our European friends lost accents. Many thanks to Jean-François and Philippe working this out with us!
- We are now more resilient when unwanted control characters find their way into our app
- We had lots of crazy effects when we copied or dragged text from MS Word to TEXTkraft
- When the "Keep encoding" setting is on, we now preserve the line endings, so the files stay compatible with the devices they were created on
New functions:
- Open PDF documents: we can search, annotate, draw (finger + pencil), open links, zoom and share
- We can create an empty PDF sketch pad with the "New File" command
- The Share extension of TEXTkraft can open text files and PDF documents at place or copy them
- Text selections are still forwarded without interaction to the Share extension inbox
- We can import files to the "Textkraft 5/Import" directory on local storage or on iCloud
- The "New File" command is now reachable via keyboard shortcut Cmd+N
- When your text cannot be saved with all special characters in the selected text encoding, we offer to switch to UTF-8 instantly
5.0.1
Apr 30, 2022
Free evaluation phase was not working for the first 3 app launches.
5.0
Apr 30, 2022
TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor FAQ
Click here to learn how to download TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor.
iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor supports English, German
TEXTkraft 5 - Text Editor contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Single user purchase
$4.99
Family purchase
$6.99
24 hours usage
$0.99
iPhone subscription
$2.99
Quarterly subscription
$0.99
7 days usage
$2.99
Monthly subscription
$0.29
Yearly family subscription
$3.99
