OpenClassrooms vs CodeLife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenClassrooms
Access a vast library of expert-led online courses on a variety of professional topics. Learn in-demand skills anytime, anywhere, with offline access to downloaded content. Achieve your career goals with flexible, self-paced learning.
- 24/7 course access
- Offline mode for downloads
- Expert-led instruction
- Wide range of professional topics
- Career goal achievement
- Learn employable skills
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All OpenClassrooms courses available 24/7 and on-the-go with our app. Join the thousands of students who are learning for free with OpenClassrooms. Achieve your professional goals thanks to our courses. Made by experts, they’ll help you master the most employable skills for the jobs of tomorrow. Start today! Offline Mode: You can now download any courses to consult them anytime, anywhere even without an internet connection! Topics you can learn: - Marketing & Communication - Data - Business - Project Management - Development - Systems & Network - Human Resources - Design - Career Coaching - Pedagogy - And a lot more!
CodeLife
Learn programming languages like Python, JavaScript, SQL, and HTML/CSS through interactive exercises and coding challenges. Gamified elements like collecting "Codémon" and earning XP help keep you motivated as you progress through bite-sized lessons.
- Interactive lessons
- Run code in-app
- Collect Codémon
- Track progress
- Daily streaks
- Multiple languages
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Code Life is the fun, beginner-friendly way to learn to code. Like Duolingo, but for code: short interactive exercises, no boring lectures, and real code you run right in the app. No experience needed. Start from zero and go at your own pace, a few minutes a day. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN • Python (100 chapters): variables, conditions, loops, lists, dictionaries, functions, errors, classes and OOP. • JavaScript (162 chapters): the language of the web, from your first variable to array methods, closures, JSON, classes and final challenges. • SQL (86 chapters): query real databases with SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, subqueries, CTEs and window functions. • HTML & CSS (30 chapters): build web pages with structure, selectors, the box model and Flexbox. Over 3,500 exercises in total, and more on the way. HOW IT WORKS • Bite-size lessons that explain one idea at a time, with simple examples. • Interactive exercises: multiple choice, fill in the code, match the pairs. • Coding challenges where you write and run your own code. • Hints that guide you without giving the answer away. COLLECT CODÉMON Every chapter you finish earns coins. Spend them on eggs, hatch them, and collect all 18 Codémon in your Codédex. Learning to code has never been this rewarding. STAY MOTIVATED • Earn XP and level up. • Keep your daily streak going. • Follow your progress in each language. FREE, FOR REAL • Every course and every chapter is free. • No subscription and no limited lives. • One optional purchase removes the ads. Code Life is available in English and French. Perfect for students, career changers, future developers, or anyone curious about how code works. Download Code Life and write your first line of code today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenClassrooms at none against CodeLife's 1. OpenClassrooms also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). CodeLife's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 89%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. CodeLife sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OpenClassrooms asks for nothing beyond the download.
OpenClassrooms holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 169 and 63 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of OpenClassrooms's written reviews are positive against 97% of CodeLife's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
OpenClassrooms ships an update fortnightly, CodeLife every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenClassrooms | CodeLife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (169 ratings) — better | 4.6 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews | 97.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OpenClassrooms | Oxy Foo |
Customer experience
OpenClassrooms
CodeLife
In-app purchases
OpenClassrooms
No in-app purchases
CodeLife
- Remove Ads$14.99









