OldSchool Editor : Text Editor

Let's relive the 90s and feel the experience of classic text editor on android.

OldSchool Editor : Text Editor

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By: AbhishekPandey

Users: 110,872

Rating: 4.15

(942)

Version: 1.5.2 (Last updated: 2021-06-14)

Creation date: 2019-04-24

Email: fe*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Permissions

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Other:

receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
prevent device from sleeping

Ranking

# 185,751 ▼ 319

Other rankings

#14 in text editor keyword 56 ▼ 4

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App summary

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OldSchool Editor is text editor has a simple, powerful, intuitive and nostalgic interface that gives feel of working on desktop. OldSchool Editor can be used as standard editor for editing any kind of text files.

Note : It is an editor for plain text files and not designed for opening pdf, doc, docx or any other non plain text file format.

Features of OldSchool Editor :
★ Simple, small size and Ad Free.
★ Powerful and simple user interface designed for both phones and tablets.
★ Multiple interfaces available to increase productivity in both phones and tablets.
★ Create, browse and save text files with auto saving feature.
★ Change Interface, text size, font and color.
★ Print text files on Android 5 or above.
★ Support case conversion and text trim operation.
★ Open large files in parts with paging system.
★ Display line numbers.
★ Supports Undo and Redo operations.
★ Supports Read only mode, word wrap and word count.
★ Supports Find & Replace, line jumping and regular expression search.
★ Quickly open HTML files in browser or internal viewer.
★ Built-in color picker for getting color codes in different format such as RGB, HSL and HEX.
★ Supports keyboard shortcuts for many editor operations.
★ Supports different kind of Line ending styles ( \n , \r , \r\n ).
★ Supports US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and IBM437 encoding standards with encoding detector.

If you find any problems feel free to give suggestions and feedback at [email protected].

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If you like this application and want to support development or appreciate developer you can buy support version of this application. Support version has exactly same features.

Permissions Required :
READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE : Reading storage
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE : Writing files in storage
INTERNET : For internal browser
WAKE_LOCK : For Firebase analytics
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE : For Firebase analytics

User reviews

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Pros

Simple and straightforward text editor without ads or in-app purchases.
Lightweight and stable, takes up little space on the device.
Good compatibility with physical keyboards and mice.
Ability to open large text files without crashing.
Reminiscent of classic DOS text editors, appealing to users looking for that experience.

Cons

Issues with unsaved work being lost when opening new files or closing the app.
Font issues, especially with monospace fonts not displaying correctly.
Some users faced difficulty saving files in specific folders.
Search and replace features work inconsistently.
App can hang or become unresponsive during use.

Most mentioned

Lack of ads and in-app purchases.
Unsaved work lost when closing or changing files.
Inconsistent search and replace functionality.
Monospace font or vertical alignment issues.
Lightweight and functional for basic text editing tasks.

User reviews

Opening a file using "open with" in a file manager, while editing another file with this program, causes changes to the other file to be lost. Search and Replace work strangely or not at all. This app does not create a new file until you save it for the first time. After having used it a while, I'd say the only (but serious) problem is it doesn't stop and warn you of unsaved work before closing or creating a new file.

Kent Lion, 2024-11-11

For me, having a text editor on my smartphone is as essential as a calculator. And this one does everything i need it to do while reminding me of the good old days of MS-DOS text editors like Microsoft's EDIT. It works well with on screen keyboards and with a physical keyboard and mouse. I highly recommend this editor for anyone that wants to relive the glory days of pre-GUI based operating systems and DOS.

Joseph Perkins (Dragon_Mech), 2024-03-06

Very useful for writing, and the lack of ads is amazing. It's not perfect, and it's not always fully intuitive, but I think that's a good thing. I would like to request an "Add Page" option, though. I use page count to determine document length, and when I'm writing, the ability to start pages real-time when they reach the right length would be very helpful.