Comparison

Clone vs Developer Laboratory

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Commit history visualization
  • Code editor with syntax highlighting
  • Branching and merging
  • GitHub/Bitbucket integration
  • Diff views
  • Blame view
Features
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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.

About

Developer Laboratory

This app provides a collection of example code and UI components for iOS developers. It demonstrates various functionalities like app icon creation, image viewing, web page loading, and custom controls. Access the source code to learn implementation details.

Highlights
  • APP icon creation
  • Imitation of WeChat Moments
  • Web page loading
  • Custom UI components
  • QR code scanning
  • Facial tracking
  • Database operations
Features
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iOS Technical Sharing (APP icon creation, imitation of WeChat Moments, imitation of WeChat image viewer, preventing @mentions on Sina Weibo, imitation of Alipay password prompt, imitation of Post Circle, tags, JS interaction + WK, loading web pages, adaptive cell height, embedding video player in TableView to prevent lag, custom beautiful popups, address selection, time selection, color selection, custom navigation control, carousel, QR code scanning, facial tracking, custom camera, ID card photo capture, iOS media player, AVPlayer encapsulation, dropdown selection popup, Snake game, marquee, adaptive height for TableView, native image download caching, folder operations, database operations, third-party login, sharing, payment, Apple installation agreement, data transfer between apps, acknowledgments for support) https://github.com/HansenCCC/YPLaboratory YPLaboratory is the source code for this project. If you want to see how it's implemented, you can click to view the source code. https://github.com/HansenCCC/YPUIKit-ObjC YPUIKit-ObjC is the framework for this project, providing many out-of-the-box functionalities. It includes in-app purchases, subscriptions, prompt dialogs, app info, user agent retrieval, device info, unique identifiers (persistent even after deletion), badges, useful buttons, common categories, MD5, hooks, regular expressions, hashed colors, image matrices, black-and-white images, base64 images, navigation settings, handy input fields, file management, floating draggable buttons, single-line input, multi-line input, loading dialogs, custom dialogs, local logs, marquee, waterfall flow, carousel, image preview, and more.

Screenshots

Clone4 screens
Developer Laboratory3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clone at Free against Developer Laboratory's $0.99. Clone also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 6). Developer Laboratory's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (60% vs 48%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Clone is free to download; Developer Laboratory costs $0.99 up front. Clone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Developer Laboratory sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Developer Laboratory holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Clone's written reviews are positive against 60% of Developer Laboratory's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clone ships an update every 5 weeks, Developer Laboratory monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Clone versus Developer Laboratory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloneDeveloper Laboratory
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.0 (20 ratings)4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.1% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDan Leehr L.L.C.恒盛 程

Customer experience

Clone

All ratings20 ratings
Positive45.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative45.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive48.1%
Neutral11.1%
Negative40.7%

Developer Laboratory

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clone

One-time1
  • Publish and Push$9.99
8 purchases

Developer Laboratory

One-time8
  • 0 ice cola$0.99
  • 1 ice cola$0.99
  • A sip of iced cola$0.99
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  • 一元商品$0.99
  • 2 ice cola$1.99
  • 3 ice cola$2.99
  • 4.16 ice cola$3.99
  • 16.5 ice cola$14.99

Questions

Is Clone free?
Clone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Developer Laboratory free?
Developer Laboratory costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clone or Developer Laboratory?
Developer Laboratory is rated higher. Clone averages 3.0 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Developer Laboratory averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Clone or Developer Laboratory have ads?
Neither Clone nor Developer Laboratory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clone or Developer Laboratory?
Clone ships an update every 5 weeks, and Developer Laboratory monthly. Most recently, Clone was updated on September 23, 2026 and Developer Laboratory on September 10, 2026.

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