Porcelain Git vs Modbase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Porcelain Git
A fast, native Git client for iPhone and iPad that provides full Git engine functionality. It allows secure cloning, staging, diff viewing, and branch management directly on your device.
- Full Git engine powered by libgit2
- Secure HTTPS and SSH cloning
- Stage and unstage individual files
- Unified diff viewer with syntax highlighting
- Branch management
- Fetch, pull, and push functionality
- Direct iOS Files app access
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Porcelain is a clean, native, and fast Git client designed for iPhone and iPad. KEY FEATURES: • Full Git engine powered by libgit2 • Clone repositories over HTTPS, signing in with a personal access token • Anonymous clone for open-source repositories • Preview the web page in your repository: one tap opens index.html with its styles, scripts, and links working • Open that preview in a browser on your Mac or any device on the same Wi-Fi • Create and edit files, and rename files and folders • Stage and unstage individual files • Unified diff viewer with hunk headers and color-coded changes • Commit history graph • Branch management: create, list, and switch branches • Fetch, pull, and push with safe divergence handling • Secure credentials stored exclusively in your device's Keychain • Direct access to repository files via the iOS Files app • Built for iPhone and iPad, with split view on iPad
Modbase
Monitor download statistics for your published software packages across various registries and repositories. Gain insights into your package performance in a single, consolidated view. New registry support is added as APIs become available.
- Download tracking for published packages
- Support for popular software registries
- GitHub asset download monitoring
- Consolidated performance view
- Regular addition of new registries
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Track downloads across all your packages, in one place! Modbase gives you a clear view of how your published packages are performing, showing download stats across the most popular software registries and repositories, including GitHub asset downloads for binary distributions. More registries added regularly as APIs become available!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Porcelain Git at weekly against Modbase's every 7 months. Porcelain Git also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2). Modbase's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Porcelain Git against 5.0 for Modbase. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
Porcelain Git ships an update weekly, Modbase every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Porcelain Git | Modbase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seokhyeon Nam | Isaac Whitfield |
Customer experience
Porcelain Git
Modbase
In-app purchases
Porcelain Git
No in-app purchases
Modbase
No in-app purchases
