Text Canary
A text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome.
As of May 2026, Text Canary has — users and a 4.20/5 rating from 5 reviews in the Developer Tools category.
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4.20
5 reviews
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5
Version
0.8.4
Manifest V2
History
1 snapshotsTracking since Apr 26, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2026 | — | 4.20 | 5 | 0.8.4 |
| Now | — | 4.20 | 5 | 0.8.4 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- app.window.alwaysOnTopstorage
- Host access
- None declared
Screenshots
About
Canary version of https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/mmfbcljfglbokpmkimbfghdkjmjhdgbg Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS. File bugs: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/text-app/issues
Technical
- Version
- 0.8.4
- Manifest
- V2
- Size
- 540KiB
- Min Chrome
- 31.0
- Languages
- 19
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- fojlbpdodmdfcdeigmknnaeikaadaaoh
- Developer ID
- u9e690235f04cc4548dc77d54c5c2a083
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Oct 21, 2018
- Last Updated (Store)
- Nov 30, 2023
- Last Scraped
- May 23, 2026
- Website
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- Privacy Policy
- —
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