Clone vs Inspect Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clone
This app provides a powerful Git client for iOS devices, offering advanced code editing, intuitive workflows, and beautiful visualizations of commit history. It allows users to manage repositories, branch, merge, and push code directly from their iPhone or iPad.
- Commit history visualization
- Code editor with syntax highlighting
- Branching and merging
- GitHub/Bitbucket integration
- Diff views
- Blame view
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Clone brings the power of Git version control to iOS. With beautiful visualizations, an advanced code editor, intuitive Git workflows, and powerful integrations, Clone takes Git productivity mobile. Features - Top-notch visualization A graph is worth a thousand SHAs. Clone shows commit history beautifully and quickly, so you can see what that merge commit actually merges. See what changed in amy commit with diff views. For individual files a heat map (blame) shows the who, what and when for each part of the file when you're asking why. - Designed for iPhone and iPad On all devices, Clone supports the latest iOS technologies. Use Clone as a document provider to edit code directly in your favorite editor, including Swift Playgrounds on iPads. Comparing your changes is only a swipe away with the Today view extension, even when editing in another app. Be more productive with iPad multitasking. You can work side-by-side. Write a blog post in Markdown from one app while previewing live in Clone. Commit and push are just a tap away too. Whatever the size, you're covered. - A Code Editor tailored for Git Be fearless with version control. Clone's text editor previews HTML and Markdown. Write your blog next blog post from your device. Clone's editor performs syntax highlighting in 30+ languages and shows line numbers so you always know right where you are. Customize with 5 elegant code fonts, configurable sizes, soft tabs, and line wrapping. It's built around Git, so commit, blame, and revert are always at your fingertips. - Your Git workflow, anywhere Pull, edit, commit, and push from any iOS device. Connect your GitHub or Bitbucket account for instant access to your public and private repos. Use a public key for password-free authentication. View diffs before committing, ignore files, and be a Git master without a command-line. - Advanced Git support: Branch, Merge, Remotes Does git push heroku master mean something to you? What about a gh-pages branch? Clone can push your repos and communicate with multiple remotes. When merge conflicts happen, Clone helps there too. - Powerful integrations: git init to github.com in seconds After connecting to your Github or Bitbucket account, you can clone your repos without typing a thing. Repos you create on your device can be published to GitHub or bitbucket in seconds. Fix a bug, start a blog, or think bigger.
Inspect Browser
This app offers desktop-class web development tools directly on your iOS device. Inspect HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, view network requests, and test responsive design without needing a desktop or remote connection.
- JavaScript console
- HTML/CSS inspection and editing
- Network panel
- Responsive design tools
- Storage inspector
- View page source
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Web development tools for iOS. Inspect is a web inspector for iOS that provides desktop-class developer tools, right in the app. No need for remote debugging, connecting to a desktop, proxies, or remote systems. Included are: - JavaScript console. - HTML element inspection and editing (with live preview). - CSS inspection and editing (with live preview). - View element details: CSS rules, JavaScript properties, dimension statistics, and more. - Open files and folders from other apps (like Working Copy), or from iCloud to test locally. - Network panel, displaying page headers and XHR requests. - Responsive design tools: View your site with a variety of mobile and desktop sizes and orientations, including support for custom sizes and user agents. - Cookies, local storage, and session storage inspector and editor. - Resource graph. - View raw page source. - Control over browser operation: disable JavaScript, cache, and clear cache and cookies to test various operations and states. - Save a screenshot of your site, including the ability to save the full page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Clone at Free against Inspect Browser's $6.99. Clone also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Inspect Browser's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Clone is free to download; Inspect Browser costs $6.99 up front. Clone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Inspect Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
Inspect Browser holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inspect Browser has 124 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Clone's written reviews are positive against 75% of Inspect Browser's.
Clone ships an update every 5 weeks, Inspect Browser every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clone | Inspect Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (20 ratings) | 4.3 (124 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.1% of reviews | 75.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 124 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #30 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dan Leehr L.L.C. | Parallax Dynamics Inc. |
Customer experience
Clone
Inspect Browser
In-app purchases
Clone
- Publish and Push$9.99
Inspect Browser
No in-app purchases









