Codea Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience88.1% of reviews
Neutral6.1% of reviews
Negative experience5.7% of reviews

~ Based on 523 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Codea

Is Codea Safe?

Codea appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Codea is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 126 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

86.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 126 App Store ratings for Codea.

Is Codea Legit?

Codea appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Codea is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Lua language 를 iPad에서 사용할 수 있습니다.

Lua를 이용해서 iPad에서 실행되는 프로그램을 작성하고 실행할 수 있습니다. iPad의 자원(GPS, Camera, Sound, Graphic등)을 활용할 수도 있습니다. 취미 또는 업무용으로 사용이 가능할 것입니다.

Greatest Games Making App Ever!

I love this app so much i’ve used it for a decade it is so beautiful! The current version is the best thing ever!

app très complète

cette app est vraiment incroyable , très bien pour apprendre et developer des petits jeux mais je trouve qu’il manque une partie tuto plus complète pour utiliser le language malgré les docs , pour ma part je suis toujours un peu perdu , si vous faite un mis a jour , pouvez vous rajouter ca ?

An absolute gem!

This is an exceptional platform for coding on iOS. It is simple, yet powerful, and works seamlessly with an excellent development experience. It is great for beginners learning to code and advanced individuals who would like to make games on iOS. The developers are very helpful if support is required. I would highly recommend.
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This is amazing.

I have learned lua from this app and my skills are better from this app. 10/10

Doesn’t work

Doesn’t work on my new iPhone. Just a black screen.

Amazing!

Good, just don't want to pay for more than 500 lines of code. I am making a Roblox like game and I need rounded corners, modified squares take up LOTS of code and might need to use thousands of lines of code. Still, Amazing if you are looking to build your own games for friends, family, or yourself! Also add a built in rounded corner please!
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Great app!

This is great app

No, I won’t review you positively if that’s the first thing you ask

Annoying

Good for making games.

I’ve owned Codea since at least 2017 and have made a lot of personal projects on it. Back then I spent hours searching for game development done completely on the iPad all by itself. Codea was just the strongest option back then. I’ve enjoyed scripting in lua these past 9 years. The games you can make are not as free as if it was not on an iPad but it’s still free enough for it to matter and make games. One day, the music() player stopped working and nobody what iPad I’m on I’m not able to actually play music from inside the app.
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Deleted

My initial review was deleted even though it clearly expressed my opinion of this product without unsupported hostility or unrelated tangents. When this application’s publisher restores my valid and warranted review, I will submit an update reflecting my thoughts after having used it,

Lets me code when I fell the itch

I mostly use Codea on my iPhone because I use it when I might be scrolling social media. It’s simple and the documentation and references in the app are really nice, makes it possible to learn even though Codea isn’t that popular on YouTube, etc.

Would love to see more polish on iPhone, but works 99% fine for me. Only bug I have is when I use the space bar cursor move on my keyboard, the cursor in Codea disappears, so I have to use the old hold in the text feature instead, which is fine, just less convenient
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SIMPLEMENTE GENIAL

La recomiendo 100% para programar y divertirse! Tiene muchos ejemplos y una comunidad muy activa. Truco: con “Atajos” puedes crear iconos de tus Apps directamente en tu dispositivo. Y pasaros por su Discord. Se nota que los desarrolladores le ponen cariño a esta aplicación. Saludos!

좋은 앱같습니다.

좋은 앱으로 보이나, 영어도 모르고, 개발도 모르는 사람에게 진입장벽이 높네요. 물론 한글이 지원하지 않는다는 것도 알고 앱을 설치하고 구독도 했습니다만 역시 힘드네요. 혹시 한글지원도 기대할수있을까요???

Codes is good

I like codes because ChatGPT always suggests it

Assets don’t work

I open assets from my project menu and everything just freezes, please fix it I wanna finish my game I needed to add custom assets :/

Need Pencil scrolling slider. TOO MUCH ACCIDENTAL WRITING

8/9/25 REVIEW: Too much accidental writing, add a slider to the left of the numbered code blocks, so we can scroll through the code with our Apple Pencil.

We can no longer use Apple Pencil, to highlight code, copy, paste, cut… because codea developers have now made it primarily for writing any time your Apple Pencil touches the editor.

GPT 5 has just made your app *50 million years better* Please give us back our Apple Pencil selection functions back.

5 stars and updated review when fixed

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I’ve owned this app for well over 10 years. I always disliked the developers because they made it a tough environment for *no code background* to use this app. My goal was and still is, to prototype my game mechanics for our VR game we are developing on Unity engine.

Regarding Codea, at first I was determined and even supported by buying their shader app.

Then.. I started noticing, the more I dug the more chaotic it became to learn, the community was good to ask questions and you can get solutions (but you rarely now what questions to ask, when you’re new)

The community didn’t have have guides or tutorials at the time.

The ones they did offer were highly defragmented and not noob friendly.

And the ones you did find that were noob friendly.. were always outdated by 5+ years, and worse..

the developers and community did not provide YouTube resources. (things maybe different now) who knows.

I stopped going to the forums and stopped using Codea altogether for many years.

I eventually learned how to use pre visualization apps like shot pro so I can animate my character models to visualize my game mechanics I was designing for our VR game.


Fast forward to the future 2024:

Now thanks to Chat GPT, I’ll prompt gpt to code my designs of a specific game mechanic on codea.

I then test its game feel. If it passes the game feel test, I then update my design document with any tweaks I may have done during codea stage, pass on the design doc to our (hourly wage) game developer and have them add those mechanics onto our VR prototype for our Quest 3 Headset.

If you are a game designer, because of Chat GPT, you now have the capability to rapidly test your game mechanics.

Otherwise if you are new to coding, want to learn coding - going off my horrible past experiences, I would avoid codea as your learning base.
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It crushes

Not bad but my 6000 line is because to crushing

Expensive

It would be better if Codea had a few free export ,
Like 2-3 times free export

It’s Still Great In 2025

I don’t really know what I’m doing but I fumble around with it using the tutorials and playing around with stuff and I’ve managed to create a few games and programs. Great app. With a bit of time and effort, I can see that you could create anything you imagine.