Kodex
reviews and complaints

it’s a great editor for a lot of reasons but the major complaint i have is i can’t find a way to have any kind of error highlighting (code linting) so if you leave any kind of typos in your code it’s a major pain to find them

This is an excellent app for what it’s meant for, I was just wondering, however, if come later updates, you’d possibly implement the ability to compile and run the code you’ve written in the text editor, other than that though it’s excellent at what it does!

Wrote half an app while on the go
File management was easy and the lack of in app purchases that would constantly bug you in most other code editors did not exist in this masterpiece, and an abundance of features for 0 dollars is wonderful. I can't recommend this app enough

It’s like having sublime, or VS Code, or Atom or whatever on your iPad. I’ve been waiting for this for so long!

I just wish there was a markdown previewer added. As someone who edits a lot of markdown files, I would love to be able to preview the final output.

Thanks a ton!

I created a file within Kodex and could not open it. App would crash every time. After a while I opened an existing file and it worked fine. And the Kodex file also opened. Weird bug. I wasn’t impressed with getting started, but I haven’t had much chance to really use the app.

This is a great, no nonsense text editor for the iPad. I use it with a Bluetooth keyboard which makes text entry fast and efficient. This is my go to for taking notes etc in meetings.

Wonderful to see the support for syntax highlighting. Especially good that Markdown is covered.

Absolutely loved the app. Have a few suggestions for improvements. It will be nice to have a view only mode and disable the keyboard. Also please bring full screen mode. Finally the ability to click on a function and the app gives the definition or hints would make this app a killer!

Crashes when trying to open a simple html or css file, no matter the size. Seemingly abandoned. Always makes me sad when good looking software gets left behind. One could however argue that it's our excessive rate of evolution in technology, which makes it soo difficult to continuously keep software up to date, especially in the mobile-app field.

Needs optimizing for 3rd gen iPad Pro models. I’d also like to see the interface tweaked to save space: disable the iOS status bar similar to Buffer Editor, tabs in line with controls, toggle for app status bar on bottom, and the ability to hide the extended keyboard row which is nearly useless when using a hardware keyboard. Love the mini map though!

Awesome app and works really well, but it needs a function where you can see the results of your code. Other that that, it is great! It has syntax highlighting, you can change the color theme, and it saves your files in iCloud, so I can access them from any device I need. Would give five stars if it had a way to preview the results of your code. Since it doesn’t, I end up using my other coding app more.

Not clear on this app.

I am a absolute beginner, learning to code and taking up C# courses. I have continuous IDE iOS app - it’s good. Was curious to see what’s out here in IDE.

Heard about this app on YouTube.
All I see in description, over 150 languages. None are listed, unless I just can’t see it. My concern..

Can I write in C#?
.Net Framework access?

So far doesn’t seem like it.

Thank you.

Gets the job done but I’d suggest the following features:

- view only mode or prevent keyboard from coming up every time you get to a file. It’s annoying when I need to quickly jump back and forth around files.
- also allow you to jump back to where you left off in a file.

I jump back and forth between css and html files, so it gets quite cumbersome if I have to slide down the keyboard and slide down to where I left off every time.

The app is full of potential. However, it has one major flaw.

I tried editing a .tex file — great, it can do that. But my Tex compiler has .aux, .log and various other files in the same directory with the same name but a different extension.

This app fails to show the file extensions. So I would have 5 different “file1” in a folder, but I can’t see the extension until I try to open the file and fail like 4 times. Really takes the fun out of using this app, so I just deleted it.

The description accurate and this app looks to be exactly what the iPad needs. This is essentially Sublime Text for iPad with all of the key fix-ins right down to editing Key Bindings. After about a minute of setup I felt like I was at my desktop. Really excellent job and kudos to the developer.

I’ll be digging into this more in order to allow easier coding workflow on the go for all of my projects and come back to update this review when I’ve had a thorough look through the file features.

To provide as much system information as possible, these experiences are from a user using a 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 with a Bluetooth keyboard. The Bluetooth keyboard is a Logitech K811.

I have used this application for about 9 months exclusively via an external keyboard. I have observed some instances of crashing while holding down the backspace key, but these instances have drastically increased with iPadOS. Either much less time holding down the backspace key is needed for a crash or some other keystroke-related action is causing a crash. Beyond that, this is a very intuitive editor which has the syntaxes, character formatting, etc. for my needs, and a lot of the features have transitioned successfully to iPadOS.

This app used to be quite good, at the time when it was still being actively developed, at least, it was competitive with other similar applications available for iOS/iPadOS.

However, the developer has not pushed out any updates to this app in over 2 years now, which is basically a lifetime in the world of the App Store where things move even quicker than the regular software world. I wish Apple would do more to notify people of the status of the app…something like a highlighted block of bolded text that says “Note: This application has not been updated in (X amount of time) and we have received a number of complaints from users regarding bugs/broken features.”, there’s way too much stuff like this on the App Store. Oh well.

I was able to open a gcode file once, scroll once and that’s it. Can’t search, can’t open settings, no icons do anything, can’t scroll. It’s just stuck. Yes, my file is good. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app twice. It’s just a screen saver now... bummed, as it was the first one I found that ever let me open a gcode file on my ipad pro.

2 days later - same. Takes FOREVER to open a file. I mean, if they’re just text files, then why does it take so long? Still not open, and I’ve already downloaded 2 other apps to try on them.

1 day later - now with a smaller gcode file it takes forever to load, then there’s a brief flash of the code on the screen, and the app crashes. Have to reload the text again when opening, same happens again.

I really don’t get it. If it’s “just text” then why is it so hard to just see it, edit it, and download it, with ANY app, on an ipad pro.

Super awesome text editing app. Syntax highlight! Capable of opening any files! And there's theme list. I love any of the darkish purple, blue, and green text editor themes and then there's Solarized Dark. Jackpot! Beyond text editor, I tend to think that the simple choice between white and dark themes to be boring. Too boring. A white theme with blue accent is terribly boring. I'm glad this app at least offers other accent colors. The dark theme with purple accent looks nice.

I've uninstalled Documents 6 for this. That app used to be awesome until Files app introduced in iOS 11 and this app is the last missing puzzle piece I need to read and edit text files.

I had to drop one star for the following reasons:
ꊱ1 No alternative language keyboards. I use Japanese Romaji and Emoji.

ꊱ2 The Text Replacement isn't working very well.

ꊱ3 The height spacing looks weird (in Courier Regular) when there's unicode characters.

ꊱ4 Following text after pasted (unicode?) text can sometime be in different font other than Courier Regular.

I'd sacrifice syntax highlights, height spacing, or so in favor of keyboard honestly, if that's the root of problems. Quality text editor should be able to read and edit .txt and other text-based files without issues.

There's no "find and replace"!
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Doesnt open squirrel file, which is plain text. Useless for coding.

I cannot run my code. If i cannot run then where it is useful for me

Crashes when opening an existing file as well as when creating a new one. Abandonware

How do we use this thing? There are no instructions. There is also no way to run our code!

Cannot recommend this editor, since it will not let you edit various programming language files.

If you want an app that crashes instead of opening, creating, or editing files - This is for you!

2 star till I am only able to open single files, one at at time. Please add the ability to open a folder

Create a document? Crash. Open a document? Crash. I’m on the latest iOS (15.5). Clearly this app has been abandoned.

I don’t know how to code the pro way. I’m 8 and use Tynker. I didn’t expect it to be like this. But pls make it easier.

On ios 15.6 it will not open anything from the Files app. Needs a major bug fix.

If you can get something open it still crashes.

When this app works, it’s great. But I’m done with it until it’s fixed. I’m sick of having it crash when I’m in the middle of writing something and losing all my work since the last save.