What users hate. Clustered.

1- and 2-star reviews grouped into themes with verbatim examples. Each cluster is a wedge a competitor could exploit.

18 reviews·6 themes

No instructions or onboarding
Users are confused and frustrated by the lack of guidance on how to use the app, with no tutorials or help available.
5
reviews
- “How? — HOW DO I USE THIS THERE ARE NO INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW”
- “complex — How do you use this app??? You dont even tell us how to use it!!”
- “It looks great but… — I have no clue to even do anything so I looked at the online manual and it doesn’t teach me anything so be happy with you one star”
Frequent crashes and instability
The app crashes consistently, especially during basic operations like switching apps, changing settings, or opening files.
6
reviews
- “Crashing all time — Crashing all time”
- “Endless crashes — It literally crashes every time I switch back to it from another app. Useless.”
- “Nonstop crashing — Trying to establish SSH connection, crashes every time after command execution.”
Poor file management and storage limitations
Users cannot access or edit files in desired locations (e.g., iCloud, pCloud), and moving files causes crashes or data loss.
4
reviews
- “Not possible to store file where I want and the app crashes when I moved them — The app is decent at best, and I needed to have my files in iCloud Storage (and I dont want to do a copy). So I manually moved my files expecting to be able to edit them from there. Now when I open the app, it is stuck trying to open the fi”
- “Cannot open custom extensions — So this app is useless. Does not support pCloud.”
- “Very Limited — Can’t see that this editor is positioned as a powerful programmer’s editor. Grabbed it when it was free it but was disappointed. For example, it shows its age in that cloud support is ostensibly limited to Dropbox and iCloud.”
Lack of essential developer features
Missing core functionality such as Git integration, proper code execution, syntax highlighting for modern languages, and customizable editor behavior.
5
reviews
- “Meh — Code writing experience is nothing special. (Required to type most stuff by hand such as HTML scaffolding) No git integration either which leaves this as just a fun toy rather than something to get any kind of work done on your phone.”
- “Useless app is not actually a text editor — Useless for many programming languages such as Typescript because only recognized file types will open. Not really a text editor. Fine app if you aren’t really a programmer but useless otherwise.”
- “Garbage — It cant even run code pls guys go on this website replit.com its very VERY VERYY mobile friendly”
Unwanted or broken UI/UX behavior
Issues like forced line wrapping, incorrect styling (e.g., logo appearing in HTML output), and inconsistent indentation ruin the user experience.
3
reviews
- “What the….? — So far looks great. But forced line wrap? WTH. I HATE word wrapping…. Give the option to disable and it might actually be a useful program.”
- “HTML h1 tag Koder logo — I try to do a simple html file and the first thing I do is do an h1 tag. Looking in browser there’s some dumb styling that has the Koder logo beside every h1 tag….. why???”
- “Mostly Useless — Nothing works correctly. Tab indents by an amount not a multiple of the fixed font width!”
Misleading or fake positive reviews
Users believe the app is overrated due to inflated ratings and suspect fake five-star reviews, especially given poor performance.
2
reviews
- “Bad app — Js files are now by default opened in koder. Five star reviews are FAKE.”
- “Bad App — I don’t know If any of you used this app, but when I try to css with buttons, the button won’t even appear”

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