# Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector — user reviews

> 68 indexed App Store user reviews of Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector by Christian Selig, rated 4.50/5 from 347 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/achoo-html-viewer-and-inspector/id1585833321/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/achoo-html-viewer-and-inspector/id1585833321.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 277 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 18

## What do users think of Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Clean and intuitive user interface design
- ⚡ Fast and easy to learn functionality
- ✏️ Smooth and simple edit mode for page content
- 🎨 Ability to customize app icon
- 📱 Works well for basic HTML source viewing
- 💰 Affordable price point ($0.99)

**Cons**

- 🐛 App appears abandoned with 4+ years without updates
- 📦 Tiny popup window makes inspection difficult
- ❌ No text search/find function in HTML code
- 📝 No line wrapping option for long code lines
- 🔧 Missing HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing capabilities
- 📱 Poor iPad and large screen support
- ⚠️ Incompatible with iOS 18.6 and newer versions
- 🐛 Font size menu corrupted on iPhone 16 Pro
- 🐛 Share button non-functional
- 🐛 Edit function buggy and unreliable
- 🐛 HTML formatting not properly displayed
- 🐛 Unresponsive buttons on some websites
- 🔐 Security concerns and hacking reports
- 📋 References deprecated Apollo app
- 🎯 Misleading description vs actual functionality

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App not working with iOS 18.6+
- Font size menu corrupted on iPhone 16 Pro
- Share button non-functional
- Edit mode closes window and doesn't persist
- Edit function shows glitched icons
- Buttons unresponsive on certain websites
- HTML not formatted properly on many sites
- Text remains portrait width in landscape orientation
- Extension greyed out and cannot be enabled
- Incompatible with Screen Time restrictions
- Variable performance across different websites
- Font size doesn't adjust line height accordingly
- Edit button doesn't work as intended

**Most requested features**

- Search/find function within HTML code
- Line wrapping option for code display
- Full HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing capabilities
- Wider viewing window or resizable interface
- Dark mode toggle option
- Better iPad and landscape orientation support
- Code syntax highlighting improvements
- Export HTML functionality
- JavaScript console for testing
- CSS extraction and editing tools
- Image replacement capability
- Proper HTML formatting/prettification
- Share sheet integration
- Text wrapping with adjustable line height

## Newest reviews (11 of 68)

### 2/5 — Falling apart, abandoned

*2025-10-15*

Looks like the app is pretty much abandoned; not updated for 4+ years and it still references Apollo (RIP).

The share button is also non-functional.
At least I can still edit a page...

### 2/5 — Small

*2025-09-30*

Small window, impossible to inspect complex web pages, thought it was like a dev console in chrome but for safari, and it’s not

### 2/5 — No longer works with iOS 18.6

*2025-08-09*

Stopped being available in 18.6

### 3/5 — Solid extension, definitely needs better iPad support

*2023-09-22*

Hard to go wrong with an HTML viewer/editor, amazing extension/app! iPad support is very limited with this extension, the text box is very tiny as well you cannot search for specific lines of HTML.

### 4/5 — A “find in source” option would be great

*2023-07-26*

Since there’s nowhere to send feature requests (and I suspect this app is not in any sort of active development), here’s a review:

It works great, looks very nice and clean, and the edit page option is very smooth. It would be perfect if I could search within the html, and as somebody else mentioned, text wrapping.

### 3/5 — Broken

*2023-06-09*

Doesn’t seem to work as expected. Edit function simply closes the editor and then reopening it shows glitched out icons.

### 3/5 — suchfunktion

*2023-04-23*

fehlt. 🤔 sonst super. 🤩

### 2/5 — LINE WRAP

*2022-10-30*

Seriously?
You give a slim window and no line wrap?
Almost 2023, guys.
2 suggestions.
Give line wrap an option at least and give another option for a wider window.
Icons are pretty.

### 3/5 — Disappointingly few features

*2022-10-21*

This extension does exactly what the description says, and nothing more. Inline HTML, CSS, JS only. Copy edits can only be made on-page, in a WYSIWYG-type editor. HTML, CSS, JS edits are not allowed, though they are implied in the description.

This is not a replacement for the dev options that we expect on all modern desktop browsers. I hope that one day we have an ipad extension (or native tools) allowing this functionality without connecting iPad to a desktop computer.

For now, this is not the solution I'm working for. Take the description at it's word and don't hope for any more, even standard, features.

### 3/5 — Gut und schlecht zu gleich

*2022-09-28*

Das Plugin tut was es soll, aber der Weg dorthin ist steinig. Man bekommt einfach keine Erklärung und leider ist vieles unverständlich.

### 4/5 — it would be great if it can be read in wider

*2022-06-14*

it's so good and useful but i only can read it through very small screen. it would be great if it can be read in wider and line breakable display for user's convenience.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 骗人的，用不了

*2026-07-31*

1

### 1/5 — SCAM

*2025-12-04*

Ворует данные , все логины и пароли скомпрометированы

### 1/5 — Does the bare minimum

*2025-10-12*

Sadly missing the ability to search within the html, or indeed do much to it. Also the font size menu is corrupted on my iPhone 16 Pro. There are more capable apps out there.

### 1/5 — 검색 기능이 없습니다.

*2025-01-29*

이 앱에는 반드시 검색 기능이 필요합니다.

### 1/5 — Basic features missing

*2025-01-02*

There isn't even a "find" function to search for text? Come on.

### 1/5 — Hacked

*2024-07-05*

I got hacked after downloading the app

### 1/5 — Decent…

*2023-11-01*

Updated:

Used to be four stars.  Down to one now since it is gotten buggier because of iOS updates with lack of updates to the app to fix those compatibility issues.  Really too bad.

Previous:

Desperately needs line-wrap and even more desperately needs a search. Would be 4.5 stars with these. That last half a star would come with extra ‘features’ like variable code coloring, etc.

### 1/5 — 纯垃圾

*2023-07-03*

如题

### 1/5 — Even more disappointing

*2023-03-04, version 1.0*

(Lowering my rating even more since I’ve found this to be even more of a flop)

A bare-bones web inspector — key word “inspector“. The only page “tweaks” it enables are via wysiwyg cursor/element tapping. HTML and style info are readable, but you can’t edit any of it. So, for example — want to temporarily replace a hideous website background image with a solid color that makes the site readable? Forget it. BODY is not a visible element to select for tweaks. 

Also, on its marketed feature of code size customization …
While it does let you decrease the code font size, it DOES NOT accordingly decrease line height. This largely defeats the purpose and makes the "feature" worthless. Many, like me, want smaller text so that MORE content is visible on the screen at any one time - which means MORE LINES. As it is, font set as small as '9' is shown with the exact same line height as font size '16'... From a user experience standpoint, this is a dropped ball. It adds a "feature" but doesn't at all achieve what the feature's common use case is.

### 1/5 — Disappointing Waste of Money…

*2022-10-14*

I purchased this thinking it would at least do as much as the other (free) Web Inspector, but this is simply a “View Source” extension. Why? Well, it literally says “Inspector” in the title, but now I know this is exaggeration on the dev’s part. Even for the low price-point, I don’t feel this is worth the money—especially considering that their are both free View Source AND Web Inspector extensions.

That said, I do love the design. If this had the functionality of the other Web Inspector, with this design, I’d give them all my money. Until then, there’s really no point in installing this. Y’all have been warned.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — BlI aa hh

*2026-07-21*

Bless you

### 5/5 — School

*2026-02-14*

Amazing tools

### 5/5 — Safari’s missing “View Source”

*2025-11-29*

Such a great utility. Nothing else like it for iOS Safari.

### 5/5 — great app

*2025-11-24, version 1.0*

love it

### 5/5 — Restore

*2025-02-19*

Needs updates asap

### 5/5 — ?

*2023-08-15*

Sometimes is wrong

### 5/5 — Aplicativo muito bom

*2023-03-28*

Cumpre o que promete, o diferencial para mim que fez esse aplicativo valer tanto a pena foi poder inspecionar textos no Safari. Ótimo aplicativo, cumpre o que promete por um preço bem acessível!

### 5/5 — спасибо

*2023-01-25*

думаю, многие ждали этого, премного благодарен

ps edit mode dont work ios 16

### 5/5 — great

*2022-09-23*

i like to use my desktop to scrub embedded video URLs off of artstation (which disables video download for some reason), but now i can use my phone too.

### 5/5 — Incredibly impressed

*2022-03-27*

This does exactly what I need it to do. It fast and easy to learn. One thing I think everyone could benefit from is being able to edit a photo as well. Being able to replace an image with another and continue editing the webpage would make this app even better! Overall I will be a lifetime user for sure.

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