Comparison

RETRO FORTH vs PPHub For GitHub

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

Head to head
About

RETRO FORTH

A compact and adaptable concatenative programming language designed for ease of learning and customization. It features a code editor, interactive listener, and support for Gopher servers, allowing for flexible development.

Highlights
  • Concatenative programming language
  • Code editor with Markdown subset
  • Literate programming style
  • Interactive listener interface
  • Gopher server data fetching
  • File manager
  • Documentation browser
Features
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RETRO FORTH is a concatenative programming language with roots in Forth. Designed to be compact, learnable, and easy to adapt to specific needs, it has been developed and refined through continual use by a small community over more than a decade. Forth is a stack based programming language created in the late 1960's by Chuck Moore. Over the intervening decades it has evolved through use, with many dialects along the way. The Retro dialect was created in the late 1990's, and has been continually developed and supported for over 15 years. It is a structured, imperative stack-based language with modern facilities including quotations and reflection. It features: - latest version of the RETRO language - a code editor using Markdown subset - literate programming style - code is extracted from fenced blocks in Markdown source allowing easy mixing of code and commentary - allows use of unicode & emoji in source & commentary - interactive listener interface for quick interactions - simple console output and text input - editor provides quick access to numbers and symbols - support for fetching textual data from Gopher servers - file manager - documentation browser It also includes documentation and several optional examples.

About

PPHub For GitHub

This app provides a comprehensive mobile interface for GitHub, allowing users to browse trending projects, view source code, and manage issues and pull requests. It also facilitates quick actions like starring repositories, following developers, and sharing content.

Highlights
  • Browse open source trends
  • View source files
  • Manage issues and pull requests
  • Star, watch, and fork repositories
  • Follow developers
  • Search repositories and developers
  • Handoff support for Mac integration
Features
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PPHub is a GitHub mobile client that supports the iPhone and the iPad. With PPHub, you can always: - Browse GitHub's Open Source Trends List of Languages Daily/Weekly/Monthly to help you find excellent open source libraries and developers; - View open source library source files/code; - Convenient discussion of Issue, Pull request with developers; - Quick Star, Watch, Fork Open Source Library, Follow Developer; - Tracking and viewing open source libraries of interest, developer activity information; - Search for open source repositories and developers you want to find; - Check out the open source libraries and developers that you own/collect/focus on; - Quickly share open source libraries and developers with your friends; - Modify most personal data; - Support Handoff relay, so that you can connect with Mac quickly; - Check the GitHub link of the clipboard to quickly open source libraries and developers; - Integrated Browser Plug-in to quickly view open source libraries, developers; - More...... ------------------------- If you have any suggestions or bugs, you can inform me through the feedback function of APP or go directly to https://github.com/jkpang/PPHub-Feedback to ask me questions. If you think PPHub is good, I hope you will give a good comment as a encouragement. []~( ̄▽ ̄)~* ------------------------ Privacy Statement: PPHub will not collect any information from your GitHub account, after all, I don’t even have my own server.....

Screenshots

RETRO FORTH4 screens
PPHub For GitHub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PPHub For GitHub at 97% against RETRO FORTH's 33%. PPHub For GitHub also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (77 vs 5). RETRO FORTH's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). 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

RETRO FORTH is free to download; PPHub For GitHub costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PPHub For GitHub holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PPHub For GitHub has 77 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of RETRO FORTH's written reviews are positive against 97% of PPHub For GitHub's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
RETRO FORTH versus PPHub For GitHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRETRO FORTHPPHub For GitHub
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.4 (5 ratings)4.9 (77 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews96.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings577 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#58 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCharles Childers凡程 庞

Customer experience

RETRO FORTH

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%

PPHub For GitHub

All ratings77 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive96.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.4%

In-app purchases

None

RETRO FORTH

No in-app purchases

None

PPHub For GitHub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RETRO FORTH free?
RETRO FORTH is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PPHub For GitHub free?
PPHub For GitHub costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RETRO FORTH or PPHub For GitHub?
PPHub For GitHub is rated higher. RETRO FORTH averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while PPHub For GitHub averages 4.9 from 77 ratings.
Do RETRO FORTH or PPHub For GitHub have ads?
Neither RETRO FORTH nor PPHub For GitHub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RETRO FORTH or PPHub For GitHub?
RETRO FORTH ships an update monthly, and PPHub For GitHub monthly. Most recently, RETRO FORTH was updated on September 6, 2026 and PPHub For GitHub on September 28, 2026.

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