Text Editor.

This app used to be great until the developer enveloped a paywall around it. Some people don’t want anything more than the basic features but now you can’t even utilize the bare minimum without paying! I have this app on my old device which hasn’t been updated in a long time as I have the automatic updating of apps feature disabled. On that old version I am still able to use the app for basic texts purpose the way I’ve always done. Today is the first time I tried using the app on my new device and noticed this current version of the app has been paywalled to the point where it’s wholly unusable now unless you pay. It wouldn’t even let me edit an existing document. I don’t know when this new update went into effect but I see now the developer isn’t even transparent in regards to what each update entails which is how you end up in a situation like this and is why I never used to update my apps on my previous device! I also want to say I have a laundry list of apps I pay and have paid for so I’m not a cheapskate. But something like this - a text editor - should have a one-time purchase option if it’s going to have a purchase option at all. No one wants to pay month-to-month or annually for a basic editor. And it should’ve blocked advanced features beyond that of a basic text editor behind that purchase option rather than crippling the whole app for greed.

IOS is the land of disappointing propriety software built upon a propriety OS that hates to open its gates to third-party software devs who are not greedy — now this is added to that list. This app tries to bait you by allowing the user to edit ONLY a few files before putting everything behind a pay-wall, holding the software hostage until you pay up for the subscription. Don’t be a sucker and say no to anti-consumer practices. Linux is the land of the free, and has Xed, Gedit, Kate, Tea, Vim, ect as simple text editors in its repos for FREE, and you can pay for the software you want — for “this land was made for you and me”. If you want people to pay for your software, just make it 5-10$ up-front before the download, don’t try to hide by having a “upgrade” subscription for a offline app. Subscriptions are for monthly magazines or to access a online service on some-one else’s server, not for simple office software users run on THEIR OWN OS.

It looks like my trial for text editor ended, but I was surprised to found that I couldn’t access documents I’d already written in the past. While I understand that this may have been included in the terms somewhere, it really would have been nice if this was made clearer, or if TextEdit had stopped us from creating new documents and made the files read only. I hope I’m mistaken, and am happy to revise my rating if someone can explain how I can open my old files (and preferably copy/paste them into some other file). Edit: Nevermind, if you’ve saved the files on the iCloud you can open them. Not sure what the situation is if you haven’t saved them. Sorry for the confusion.