Comparison

Code keyboard vs Coding Keyboard

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

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About

Code keyboard

This utility keyboard enhances your mobile coding experience by providing specialized suggestions and shortcuts for various programming languages. It offers quick input for operators and customizable themes for comfortable use.

Highlights
  • Keyword and block suggestions
  • Quick pop-up for operators
  • Customizable night and white themes
  • Support for multiple programming languages
Features
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Sometime you need to write and test your code right in your iPhone/iPad, this keyboard help you type it faster. *Features -Support keywords and block suggestions for many common languages -Support quick pop-up and a layout for input operators faster. -Nice night and white themes *Current supported languages: objective-c,swift, c#, c/c++, css/html, go, java, javascript, perl, php, python, ruby, shell.

About

Coding Keyboard

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Coding Keyboard is an iOS keyboard laid out the way a desktop keyboard is laid out. In landscape and on iPad, the top four rows are identical to a full-size ANSI keyboard, key for key: backtick left of the 1, brackets right of the P, backslash above return, caps lock where caps lock goes. If you type on a desktop keyboard, you already know this layout. Why The stock iPhone keyboard hides the braces, square brackets, backslash, pipe, backtick and tilde behind two levels of page switching, and has no Tab key at all. iPad fares better, but only on the largest screens — on an 11-inch iPad the system keyboard has no number row, no brackets, no backslash, and no arrow keys either. That is fine for prose and miserable for code, SSH sessions, and config files. This one puts them all on the first layer. Every key prints its shifted value, so ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) and the braces, pipe, tilde, underscore, plus, colon, quote, question mark and angle brackets are all one modifier away. Terminal mode A terminal does not receive key events — the PTY sees a byte stream. Terminal mode sends the bytes a real keyboard would have produced, so a shell cannot tell the difference. It adds esc, ctrl and opt keys and a full set of cursor keys, and rewires the rest. Return sends CR rather than a newline. Ctrl plus a letter sends the C0 byte, so Ctrl-C is 0x03, Ctrl-D is 0x04, Ctrl-R is 0x12. Option prefixes with ESC, the way Meta is spelled everywhere. The arrow and Home/End keys send their ANSI escape sequences. Ctrl and opt latch like Shift — tap, hold, or double-tap to lock — and stack with it and with each other. This works wherever the host app forwards inserted text to its terminal. The app includes an echo terminal — a real VT100 emulator with no shell behind it — so you can see exactly what each key sends before you rely on it anywhere else. Turn it on with the term key in landscape, or by long-pressing Tab in portrait. Portrait A compact 10 by 6 layout for thumbs. The number row is always visible, and Tab and the cursor keys sit in the top row. The shift key Three states, matching a physical keyboard more closely than iOS does. Tap — shifts the next character. Double tap — locks until you press shift again. Press and hold — shifts while held. Shift engages on finger-down rather than on lift, so holding shift with one thumb and typing with the other works the way it does on a real keyboard: the first keystroke is already capitalized. Where it works Anywhere iOS shows a keyboard. Terminal clients, git clients, editors, note apps, browsers, chat windows, search fields. Privacy The keyboard does not request Full Access. Without it, iOS grants a keyboard extension no network capability at all — it cannot send keystrokes anywhere because it cannot send anything anywhere. That is enforced by the operating system, not promised in a policy. No data is collected. The keyboard extension has no analytics, no crash reporting, and no third-party SDKs. The source is on GitHub under the MIT license. What it doesn't do No autocorrect, predictive text, or swipe typing. No emoji key — the globe key switches back to your usual keyboard. No haptic feedback. iOS only permits it with Full Access, which this keyboard does not request. US ASCII layout only. Setup Settings, then General, Keyboard, Keyboards, Add New Keyboard, Coding Keyboard. Then long-press the globe key on any keyboard to switch to it.

Screenshots

Code keyboard4 screens
Coding Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Code keyboard at 8.0 against Coding Keyboard's 18.6. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Code keyboard versus Coding Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCode keyboardCoding Keyboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (44 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews24.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB13 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLE SANGChi On Ho

In-app purchases

None

Code keyboard

No in-app purchases

None

Coding Keyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Code keyboard free?
Code keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coding Keyboard free?
Coding Keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Code keyboard or Coding Keyboard have ads?
Neither Code keyboard nor Coding Keyboard shows ads.

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