Let's relive the 90s and feel the experience of classic text editor on android.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2021-06-14.
This app may no longer be actively maintained.
Pros & Cons
Lightweight and ad-free
Auto-saving and easy file management
Extensive encoding support and line-ending options
Printing capability on Android 5+
Not designed for non-plain-text formats (PDF, DOC/DOCX)
About OldSchool Editor : Text Editor
OldSchool Editor : Text Editor is a productivity app developed by AbhishekPandey.
Download Statistics
OldSchool Editor : Text Editor has been downloaded 120 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 210 times.
User Ratings
OldSchool Editor : Text Editor is rated 4.31 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 880 ratings.
App Information
OldSchool Editor : Text Editor is FREE to download. The APK download size is 2.92 MB. The latest version available is 1.5.2. The last update was on June 14, 2021.
Technical Requirements
OldSchool Editor : Text Editor requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2019.
Description
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 feedbackdtw@gmail.com.
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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
Recent changes: Version 1.5.2 =================================== -Apologies for last unstable update -Added printing support, available on Android 5 or above -Added case conversion and Trim text options in Edit menu -Added cut copy paste and tab shortcuts in quick toolbar -Added cursor placement and vertical scrollbar adjustment options in settings -Added delete page option in page bar -Added share all text option in tools menu -Fixed auto saving behaviour of saving saved files -Minor bug fixes and UI tweeks
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Comments on OldSchool Editor : Text Editor for Android
★★★★☆Robert Torvalds· Oct 14, 2023
Super simple text editor for .txt files, but ... Not available on Motorola g82 (Android 13) :-((
★★★★☆David Nakamoto· Jun 10, 2023
Has the issue with access to internal storage been resolved. I can't save source files in the correct root directories on android 13
★★★★★Erich Alderfer· Mar 25, 2026
The choice to append ".txt" to every file name by default is confusing to me, I think someone who downloads an app called Old School Editor would probably want to choose their file extension, and it probably wouldn't be .txt very often. That being said, it's easy to change the default and save files with whatever extension you want! In particular, I use this to run HTML and it does so perfectly (once the settings are adjusted!)
★☆☆☆☆bill frank· May 28, 2025
Now I cant move from one section. I get bubble saying select text.
★★☆☆☆Dmitry Karasik· Sep 14, 2023
Hangs when opening other files from android interface f ex text files from the mail attachments. Otherwise a cool idea
★☆☆☆☆Gene Ivanoff· May 17, 2023
When editing text the visible area scrolls away from the edited text again and again. I tried different settings and restarted the app or even killed it and restarted. No matter what it keeps jumping away from the cursor even with default settings. Addition: Should be tested on larger text files
★★☆☆☆Konsti Kk· Jul 24, 2023
I love the app. However, as some other users already pointed out, when the file is too big, the contents won't be saved. (however there's no sign that the file wasn't saved, it just says 'file saved' and your doomed lol)
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