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Text Viewer opens and reads plain-text (.txt) files instantly, with clean, legible formatting.
Select a text file from your device.
View the contents with comfortable formatting.
Copy text or move it into the Rich Editor.
Plain text files turn up more often than people expect — exported notes, logs, configuration files, a .txt someone emailed because it was the simplest thing to attach. Phones are oddly bad at opening them, usually offering a browser or an editor that wants to change the file.
The Text Viewer opens .txt files from your device or handed over from another app, and simply shows them. Free, no account, no editing by accident.
The file is read on your phone and is not uploaded. Logs and exports often contain more identifying detail than people realise, so a viewer that keeps them local is worth having.
If you need to know how long something is, send the text straight into the word and character counter rather than pasting it somewhere else first.
Files can come from your own storage or be handed over by another app through the share sheet, which is the usual route when something arrives as an email attachment. Either way the file is only displayed — there is no editing to do by accident and nothing is written back.
Long files scroll smoothly rather than loading in chunks, so a sizeable export is readable rather than something you give up on halfway down.
What the tool actually does, taken from the shipping app.
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Paste or type into a live counter, set a maximum, and know the exceptions: links and emojis on X, emojis in text messages, and Google's meta descriptions.
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Read guideLike every ScanMint tool, Text Viewer works with your data stored locally on your device. Your files and scans are not uploaded to our servers.
Plain-text .txt files.
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