MeisterTask (task management)

“MeisterTask (task management)” is developed by MeisterLabs. It is free to download and contains two in-app purchases. It is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and requires iOS 8.2 or later.

Named one of the best apps of 2015 by the AppStore, MeisterTask is a beautiful and intuitive task manager for teams. Access tasks from your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, or work directly in your web browser.

NOTE: requires a free account registration

MeisterTask lets you create visual, Kanban-style project boards, invite your team members and collaborate with them in real-time. The dashboard offers a quick overview of all your active projects, open tasks and notifications from your team members. MeisterTask’s project boards are completely customizable, so you can adapt them to perfectly fit your team’s needs. Section actions let you automate your workflow to ensure you work consistently and get more done together. MeisterTask for iOS is the free companion app to MeisterTask’s online version and ensures you stay on top of your to-dos no matter where you are!
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS:
– Create an unlimited number of projects and invite others to collaborate with you
– Dashboard with quick access to all your tasks
– Notifications keep you up to date on what’s happening in your team
– Real-time communication across all devices
– Customizable project boards that support agile workflows (software sprints, Kanban boards etc.)
– Automate your workflow with Section Actions
– Activity stream in projects and tasks
– Commenting and liking on tasks
– Upload attachments directly from Dropbox, Camera, Photo Library or iCloud
– Add checklists, descriptions, due dates and tags to your tasks
– ‘Watch’ tasks to follow your team members’ progress
– Time tracking with editable time slips

iPhone/iPod Link: MeisterTask (task management) – MeisterLabs

iPad Link: MeisterTask (task management) – MeisterLabs

Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders

“Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders” is developed by Flexibits Inc. It is normally $4.99 but it is on sale for $2.99 for a limited time. It does not contain in-app purchases. It is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 8.0 or later.

** THE SUNRISE SUNSET SALE – 40% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME **

The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for iOS 8, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and much more!

“Great iOS 7 update to my favorite iPhone calendar app. Looks great, works great, and now integrates iOS reminders.” – John Gruber (Daring Fireball)
“…if you need a pure replacement for the iPhone’s stock calendar-app, Fantastical 2 is your best bet.” – The Verge
“Fantastical is one of those apps that just works. Love it.” – Jim Dalrymple (The Loop)
“Fantastical is my new favorite iPhone app. It looks great, it works reliably, and, more importantly, it made managing my schedule better.” – MacStories
“Fantastical 2 is not only the absolute best calendar app on iOS, but the best reminders app as well.” – iMore

Just enter “Lunch with Elon in Palo Alto on Friday” and Fantastical 2 will schedule it! Or type in “todo buy milk at 5pm” and a reminder will alert you at 5PM! If your device supports dictation, you can speak the details for your event or reminder and Fantastical 2 will handle the rest.

ONE NEW APP, MANY NEW FEATURES
• Reminders!
– See your events and dated reminders together in the main list
– Add reminders directly from the Reminders list or new event screen – just flip the switch to toggle between events and reminders
– Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave)

• Significant new parser features, including:
– Create reminders by starting your sentence with “reminder”, “todo”, “task”, or “remind me to”
– Expanded, expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more
– Create alerts with phrases such as “remind me tomorrow at 3PM”, “alert 1 hour before”, or “alarm 3PM”

• All-new event details, including a map to show your event’s locations and better repeating event options
• An elegant week view when you rotate your iPhone to landscape
• Background app updating allows events, reminders, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical 2 even if you don’t launch the app very often
• An extended keyboard when creating new events or reminders, providing instant access to numbers and symbols for dates and times (only for 4″ screens or larger)
• Birthday options – tap on a birthday to see contact information or send a quick greeting
• TextExpander support
• Many other refinements and improvements

ADDING NEW EVENTS OR REMINDERS IS FUN
• The easiest and fastest way to add new events or reminders
• Just type in your details or use dictation and watch your words magically turn into an actual event or reminder!

THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
• Fantastical 2’s DayTicker is the efficient and enjoyable way to see your schedule
• The expansive and beautiful event list makes it easy to find your events
• Tap an event or reminder to show and edit its details
• Tap and hold an event to duplicate, move, or share
• Use search to instantly locate specific events or reminders
• View your Facebook events

FAST, FRIENDLY, AND FLEXIBLE
• Supports the same calendar services as the built-in Calendar app, including iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, and more!
• Fantastical 2 is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
• Just type or speak your event or reminder in any of these languages and Fantastical will automatically understand
• 3D Touch, including Peek and Pop, for iPhone 6s and 6s Plus
• Accessibility support

iPhone/iPod Link: Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders – Flexibits Inc.

iPad Link: Fantastical 2 for iPhone – Calendar and Reminders – Flexibits Inc.

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Fantastical 2 for iPad – Calendar and Reminders

“Fantastical 2 for iPad – Calendar and Reminders” is developed by Flexibits Inc. It is normally $9.99 but is on sale for $4.99 for a limited time. It does not contain in-app purchases. It is only compatible with the iPad and requires iOS 8.0 or later.

** THE SUNRISE SUNSET SALE – 50% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME **

The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and reimagined for your iPad with iOS 8. With the convenient Fantastical Dashboard, you’ll add, view, and interact with your events and reminders with ease.

“For those who just want to get in, get out, and get stuff done, I strongly recommend Fantastical 2 for iPad.” – iMore
“Fantastical works better than Apple’s Calendar and Reminders apps…” – MacStories
“…Fantastical is an app I can recommend to anyone who wants to leverage their iPad as a better calendar.” – 9to5Mac
“All the beauty of Fantastical, but now for the iPad. I use it for the Mac and iOS—I […] love it.” – Jim Dalrymple (The Loop)
“… Fantastical 2 for iPad … refuses to abide by conventional notions of how a calendar should look.” – The Verge

Just enter “Lunch with Elon in Palo Alto on Friday” and Fantastical 2 will schedule it! Or type in “todo buy milk at 5pm” and a reminder will alert you at 5PM! With dictation*, you can even speak the details for your event or reminder and Fantastical 2 will take care of it.

ONE APP, MANY FEATURES

• The Fantastical Dashboard
– Multiple views let you view your events and reminders just the way you want
– DayTicker, week view, or full-screen week view present your events and reminders with clarity
– Customize your Fantastical Dashboard with a simple gesture

• Reminders!
– See your events and dated reminders together in the main list
– Add reminders directly from the Reminders list or new event screen – just flip the switch to toggle between events and reminders
– Set dates, times, and geofences (when I arrive/when I leave)

• Powerful parser features, including:
– Create reminders by starting your sentence with “reminder”, “todo”, “task”, or “remind me to”
– Expanded, expressive repeating events such as third Thursday of every month, every weekend, last weekday of the month, and more
– Create alerts with phrases such as “remind me tomorrow at 3PM”, “alert 1 hour before”, or “alarm 3PM”

• Informational event details, including a map to show your event’s locations and flexible repeating options
• Background app updating allows events, reminders, and alerts to be pushed to Fantastical 2 even if you don’t launch the app very often
• An extended keyboard when creating new events or reminders, providing instant access to numbers and symbols for dates and times
• Birthday options – tap on a birthday to see contact information or send a quick greeting
• TextExpander support

ADDING NEW EVENTS OR REMINDERS IS FUN
• The easiest and fastest way to add new events or reminders
• Just type in your details or use dictation* and watch your words magically turn into an actual event or reminder!

THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT
• Tap an event or reminder to show and edit its details
• Tap and hold an event to duplicate, move, or share
• Use search to instantly locate specific events or reminders
• View your Facebook events

FAST, FRIENDLY, AND FLEXIBLE
• Supports the same calendar services as the built-in Calendar app, including iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, and more!
• Fantastical 2 is fully localized in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
• Just type or speak* your event or reminder in any of these languages and Fantastical will automatically understand
• Accessibility support

* Dictation not supported on iPad 2

iPad Link: Fantastical 2 for iPad – Calendar and Reminders – Flexibits Inc.

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Awesome Calendar Lite

“Awesome Calendar Lite” is developed by YunaSoft Inc. It is free to download and contains one in-app purchase of $6.99 to upgrade to the full version. It is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 6.0 iOS 7.0 or later.

Now you can automatically sync with all iPhone calendars, write your todo list, create notes with photos, check the weather and more, all with Awesome Calendar! This elegant application keeps you organized, shows holidays and is even perfect for team projects.

You’re away from the office but need to check your schedule. What do you do? Open up Awesome Calendar, of course. It only takes a second or two. The app automatically syncs with all iPhone supported calendars to let you know when you have time for that next meeting.

Quick as a wink, you add the meeting to your calendar then create a note that will help you prepare for it. A fast snap of the camera or visit to your camera roll and you add a picture of the product you’re quoting on, the item needing repair, or whatever you want. Another tap and you share all the information with your assistant back at the office, who can get the ball rolling on this project.

You pride yourself on making things happen fast, that’s why you have Awesome Calendar on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. In one speedy swoop, right from the client’s office, you were able to set up dates and times, note all of the information, and get things underway remotely. Once again, you are providing the five-star service you are known for.

Awesome Calendar is the all-in-tool to help you manage your personal and business life. View and edit your schedule, check the weather, create a todo list, write in your diary, embed photos in notes, check for holidays. This one does it all!

Want to share your schedule and notes? Would you like to have someone help you with your growing todo list? No problem, you can do those things from right inside the Awesome Calendar app. That’s right, it’s that easy and convenient. You never have to leave the app to use it most efficiently.

The time management power and functionality of this app is amazing. It has an elegant, easy-to-use interface from where you can organize your life and schedule. Aside from the tasks already mentioned, the application offers month, week, day and list views, event alarms, collapsible weeks, holiday listings for 35 different countries, and far more than what can be listed here.

Check out just a few of the features offered in Awesome Calendar:
+ works with all iPhone supported calendars(MobileMe, iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, CalDAV)
+ iOS reminder integrated. Custom color, priority, note, custom alarms and sub-task.
+ Synchronization with google task
+ 3 apps in 1
+ Multiple calendar control
+ Month, week agenda, half-week, day and list views
+ Rolling todo and todo carry over.
+ Custom color for event and reminder.
+ iCloud support for diary.
+ Customizable calendar and event color.
+ Font size and Style change option in view and note.
+ Timezone support.
+ Event template for quick adding.
+ Grouping of todo option
+ Quick popup on month view.
+ Holidays noted for 35 countries. Multiple holiday selection.
+ Elegant Photo album calendar.
+ Powerful diary lets you type notes and embed photos.
+ Full text search for event, note and todo.
+ Easy-push event alarm and customizable alarm.
+ Unlimited alarms.
+ Weather information display – current and 5 day forecast
+ Air print-Month overview, week, day and each event.
+ Lots of Cuteeeee stickers available to use in month view
+ Share events, notes and todo lists from inside the app
+ Passcode lock
+ Monday/Sunday start option.
+ Customized recurrence for event and reminder.
+ Insert photo to note like Awesome Note.
+ Sharing note via email.
+ Badge alarm on icon. Number of today’s events, todos.
+ Displaying past events on 1,2,3,4 and 5 years ago today at a glance.
+ Today’s wise saying widget.
+ Theme color.

Full version:
+No Ad.
+Customizable recurring rule for event and reminder.
+Note sync via iCloud.
+800 more emoji sticker.

iPhone/iPod Link: Awesome Calendar Lite – YunaSoft Inc.

iPad Link: Awesome Calendar Lite – YunaSoft Inc.

FoldingText

“FoldingText” is developed by Hog Bay Software. It is normally $29.99 and is on sale for $11.99 for a limited time. It does not contain in-app purchases. It is compatible with the Mac and requires OS X 10.8 or later and a 64-bit processor.

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For those who love plain text. FoldingText is the markdown text editor with productivity features. Unlike other editors, FoldingText does outlining, todo lists, and more.

“An incredibly easy-to-use combination of plain text based tools.”
– Pierre Wizla, AppStorm.net

“It seems kind of crazy until you start to use it for a bit. Then, it seems like magic.”
– Patrick Rhone, MinimalMac.com

Simple
• Plain text
• Outline formatting
• Fold and Focus to see

Surprisingly Adept
• Capture your thoughts
• Write clear, focused documents
• Organize your work, to-dos, and more.

Plain Text Productivity
• Writing
• Planning
• Scheduling
• To-do Lists
• Note-taking
• And more…

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Mac Link: FoldingText – Hog Bay Software

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Week Calendar for iPad

“Week Calendar for iPad” is developed by UtiliTap. It is normally $3.99 and is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time. It does contain in-app purchases. It is only compatible with the iPad and requires iOS 5.0 or later.

***** BEST CALENDAR APP WORLDWIDE *****
Does your ordinary iPhone, iPod or iPad calendar give you insufficient insight and options? Then Week Calendar is the solution for you. Whether you use iCloud, Exchange or Google calendar, Week Calendar is the most user friendly and the all-round calendar app worldwide for everyone that needs to get the most out of their calendar app.

AVAILABLE IN 24 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Week Calendar is available on iPad (Week Calendar for iPad), iPhone and iPod touch (Week Calendar) and will soon be released on other platforms. Week Calendar supports 24 different languages.

FAST AND EASY TO USE
Adding, repeating and moving events is now much easier than ever before. And with its magnificent interface and intuitive usability, working with Week Calendar is a pleasure for both light as extensive users.

CALENDAR CLARITY
Week Calendar provides a clear and detailed overview based on day, week, (mini)month or year level. Furthermore, Week calendar takes away the limitations of the standard iPhone calendar, for example by showing a weekly overview of all your appointments for the upcoming week.

PACKED WITH USEFUL FUNCTIONS
Move your appointments by simply dragging, copying and pasting them. Clear up a busy schedule by assigning different colours to various appointments and events. Powerful reminder functions make sure you’ll always remember your events. Customizable week numbers or repetitive options and many other functions suited to your own personal needs. Using your digital calendar was never easier!

SUBSCRIBE TO HOLIDAYS, SPORTS AND OTHER EVENTS
Add additional subscriptions to sports games, national holidays and more to your calendar from the calendar store. Accidentally scheduling an appointment on your free day now belongs to the past!

MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES:
– Magnificent overview of your appointments and events
– Viewing all your events for the week at one glance
– Simply relocate events using drag and drop
– Calendar overview by day, week, month and year
– Batch operations
– Various icons for different events
– Group templates
– Works without setup for all calendar services supported by iPhone (CalDAV, Exchange, iCal, iCloud, birthdays, subscriptions)
– Supports synching of the calendars
– Quickly add events on the right time using tap-and-hold
– Pinch to zoom
– Relocate, cut and paste appointments
– Link contacts to events
– Rotates with iPhone screen
– Templates
– Advance repetition rules
– Customizable display
– Full customization of events
– Full screen support
– Invite participants/ share appointments and events by e-mail
– Time zone support
– Adaptable week numbers
– Better birthday integration (shows age of your contacts)
– Hide weekends when there are no appointments /on weekdays/not rotated
– Completely adaptable and customizable action menu to quickly change appointments and events
– Unlimited search
– Support for TextExpander touch snippet expansion

Do you have questions, complaints or comments? We are more than willing to help or solve any of your questions quickly. You can find the most frequently asked questions on our website or just drop us a line.

iPad Link: Week Calendar for iPad – UtiliTap

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PaperPort Notes

“PaperPort Notes” is developed by Nuance Communications. It is free to download and does not contain in-app purchases. It is only compatible with the iPad and requires iOS 5.1.1 or later.

PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.

PaperPort Notes brings you a complete note taking experience on the iPad that you won’t want to ever be without.

  • Quickly take typed and/or free hand notes
  • Leverage Dragon voice recognition to capture your ideas and notes simply by speaking
  • Convert scanned documents from the camera or photo albumn into editable text using the Nuance OmniPage Cloud service
  • Leverage powerful annotative tools to quickly mark up documents
  • Never miss another detail by adding audio page by page within your notes
  • Combine full documents, individual pages, content from the web and notes into a single document.
  • Powerful search, copy/paste, reordering and bookmarking tools allow you to quickly navigate your notes while staying organized
  • Access and share content using your favorite cloud storage services
  • PaperPort Anywhere connector provides access to files stored online or within PaperPort Desktop
  • Much more… Follow us on twitter for tips and updates @PaperPortNotes

iPad Link: PaperPort Notes – Nuance Communications

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MindMaple Lite

“MindMaple Lite” is developed by MindMaple Inc. It is free to download and does not contain in-app purchases. It is compatible with the Mac and requires OS X 10.6 or later.

MindMaple is a fast and intuitive way of organizing and prioritizing information for project management, brainstorming sessions, idea sharing, drafting lesson plans, taking lecture notes, problem solving, managing schedules and more.

Create and edit collaborative mind maps with a user-friendly interface and numerous features to assist in maximizing productivity and efficiency.

Features
– Import images from iPhoto or Photo Booth
– Prioritize tasks, track progress and task schedule
– Export as images, PDF and text
– Import from MindManager, Freemind, Xmind and text files
– Expand on topics and subtopics with notes
– Link to URLs, topics, files, folders and email addresses
– Attach files to topics
– Themes, clip art and backgrounds included
– Customize topic and subtopic design
– Group subtopics from different branches using Boundaries or Relationship lines
– Visually organize maps to your specific needs
– Balance your map with one click
– Expand or collapse sections for presentations

Mac Link: MindMaple Lite – MindMaple Inc.

Due

“Due” is developed by Phocus LLP. It is normally $9.99 and is on sale for $4.99 for a limited time. It does not contain in-app purchases. It is compatible with the Mac and requires OS X 10.8 or later and a 64-bit processor.

Type “Make dinner reservation at 9am tomorrow” and your reminder is set for 9 AM tomorrow.

“Cancel subscription in 1 month” and you get a buzz a month later.

Just tell Due in your own words what you’d like to do, and when you’d like to be reminded.*

There are no awkward date pickers to fight with, nor rigid date and time format to follow.

Your reminder is set as soon as you’re done typing.

Due makes sure things actually get done by keeping you on your toes, sending you periodic reminders until you actually mark the reminders complete.

The super-fast reminder app on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch—now on your Mac.

* Natural date and time parsing available for non-recurring reminders only.

◆ FEATURES ◆

– Fast. Really fast.
Reminders are set as soon as you finish typing what to do, and when to do it.

– Natural date and time parsing
No awkward date pickers nor rigid date and time format to follow. Set due date and time by typing what is natural to you.*

“4pm” works just as fine as “4:00 PM” or “16:00”, and “Aug 22” works as well as “22 August” or “8/22”. Relative dates like “in 20 mins” or “in 6 months” work too.

Some examples:

– “Collect passport next Monday 4pm”
– “Make dinner reservation at 14:00 tomorrow”
– “Cancel subscription in 1 month”
– “Wish Sally happy birthday on Aug 22 at 8 AM”
– “Phone contract expires May 30 2014”

– Never miss any reminders with Auto snooze
Due repeatedly notifies you of missed reminders until they are marked done or rescheduled, making sure things get done and your list never go stale.

– Fully optimized for keyboard-only operation
Power users can skip the mouse and trackpad. Show or hide Due, create reminders, reschedule them, mark them complete, delete them. Everything you need is a keyboard shortcut away.

– Reusable countdown timers
Precise to the second, they are perfect for timing your soft-boiled eggs, coffee brewing and tea steeping. Set them up once and reuse them forever.

– Powerful recurring reminders
Vitamins before bed each night? Pay rent every 2 weeks on Monday? Submit a report on the last weekday of the month? Yup.

– Keep reminders in sync across your Mac, iPhone and iPad
Due supports over-the-air sync through iCloud or Dropbox. Create a reminder on your Mac and it will be there on your iPhone and iPad.**

**Due must be launched for sync to take place. Sync on iOS requires Due for iOS (sold separately).

– Search and Create
Search your reminders and timers. And if you don’t find what you want, press Return to create a reminder with your search term.

– Drag and drop to create reminders
Create reminders by dragging emails, calendar events, text, links and more to Due.

– Share reminders with drag and drop, or copy and paste
Send your friend a reminder via Mail, Messages or Twitter by dragging or copying it from Due. It even comes with a link so that your recipient can add that reminder to their own copy of Due.

– Optional Menu Bar, dockless operation
Run Due directly from your menu bar, badge it with unattended alerts, and take Due off your Dock if you like.

– Assignable alert sounds
Assign distinctive alert sound for each reminder; louder and longer ones for important reminders, and subtler ones for less critical reminders.

– Undo and Redo
Relax, it’s okay to make mistakes.

– Take control of your notifications
Customize how notifications behave—whether they display a notification, play a sound, bounces the icon or highlights the icon in the menu bar—when reminders and timers become due.

If you’re on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, you can choose between Notification Center or Growl. If you have Growl installed (sold separately), you can also customize how notifications look with themes.

◆ COMPATIBILITY ◆

Requires Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or later.

◆ WE LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU ◆

Email mac@dueapp.com, or choose Help > Send Feedback… from Due. Follow us on Twitter @dueapp.

Mac Link: Due – Phocus LLP

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Textastic Code Editor for iPhone

“Textastic Code Editor for iPhone” is developed by Alexander Blach. It is normally $8.99 and is on sale for $3.99 for a limited time. It does not contain in-app purchases. It is compatible with the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone and requires iOS 7.0 or later.

Textastic is a fast and versatile text, code and markup editor supporting syntax highlighting of over 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to FTP, SFTP and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi.

It’s the perfect app to view and edit your website and source code files at home, in the office or on the road.

FEATURES

• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages:
HTML, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website)
• Compatible with TextMate syntax definitions and themes
• Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP functions
• FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SFTP (SSH connection), WebDAV and Dropbox clients
• iCloud
• WebDAV server
• Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
• Full external keyboard support
• Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming
• Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures
• Supports most encodings like UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, CP 1251 or MacRoman
• Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs)
• Customizable font and font sizes
• Undo & Redo
• Find & Replace
• File information like character count and word count
• Send files by email
• Local and remote web preview for html and Markdown files
• Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion

Textastic supports several ways to import your files:
• Over USB via iTunes File Sharing
• By using “Open In” in other apps
• Connect to (S)FTP and WebDAV servers, and Dropbox
• Over Wi-Fi with the built-in WebDAV server

Don’t hesitate to tell me the features you want to see in the next version!

http://feedback.textasticapp.com/
http://twitter.com/Textastic

iPhone/iPod Link: Textastic Code Editor for iPhone – Alexander Blach

iPad Link: Textastic Code Editor for iPhone – Alexander Blach

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