Comparison

Juno Connect vs Python IDE & Jupyter

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

Head to head
About

Juno Connect

Access powerful cloud-based computational environments from your mobile device. Connect to remote Jupyter servers, utilize extensive computing resources, and enjoy a full-featured code editor on your iPhone or iPad.

Highlights
  • Connect to cloud computing services
  • Configure custom remote Jupyter servers
  • Secure SSH tunneling
  • Full-featured code editor
  • iPad multitasking support
  • Dark Mode and Dynamic Type
Features
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Juno Connect is a client app for Jupyter, a cloud-based computational environment. Juno Connect lets you leverage the computing power of a remote Jupyter server right from your iPhone or iPad. With Juno Connect you can: • Connect to cloud-computing services, such as CoCalc, Binder, SageMaker, Gradient or NAAS • Add and configure your own remote Jupyter servers • Leverage SSH tunneling with local port forwarding for secure connections • Take full advantage of your keyboard and trackpad in our full-featured code editor • Utilise full multitasking capabilities on iPad When you run code in Juno Connect, the actual computing is happening on a remote Jupyter server, giving you access to virtually unlimited computational resources from your iPhone or iPad. You can either connect to your own Jupyter server — directly via HTTP/HTTPS, or by establishing an SSH tunnel with local port forwarding — or use cloud computing services, such as CoCalc, Binder, SageMaker, Gradient or NAAS. And if you would rather execute code on device instead, check out our other app Juno, it lets you work with Jupyter notebooks autonomously on your iPhone or iPad. Juno Connect offers a full-featured notebook and code editor, providing a complete development environment on your iPad or iPhone. it supports Dark Mode and Dynamic Type, offers extended on-screen keyboard and works beautifully with all hardware keyboards and trackpads. Juno Connect lets you reach your Jupyter server easily and securely with SSH tunnel using local port forwarding. You can launch Juno Connect in Split-screen mode alongside other apps on iPad — run notebooks with documentation, terminal, or other code editor in front of you. WHAT IS JUPYTER? Jupyter is an interactive cloud-based computational environment, where you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media. It works with Jupyter notebooks, a computational document format that allows storing live code, markdown text, plots, images and equations in LaTeX — all wrapped into a single notebook file. Notebook documents keep record of all inputs and outputs of the interactive programming session, and the rich output generated by running R, Python or Julia scripts (including HTML, images, video, and plots) is embedded into the Jupyter notebook document. They are especially convenient if you are coding in Python for data analysis, machine learning, or computational science in general. A notebook consists of a sequence of cells, each representing either a narrative text in a form of markdown text or HTML, or a coding script with a text or media output. This makes notebooks both human-readable documents with the analysis description and the results (figures, tables, etc), as well as executable scripts for data analysis or plain programming. You can use Jupyter notebook as a document with optional executable code in it, or simply as a programming playground for data manipulation and experiments. Jupyter supports countless programming languages, including Python, R, Julia, and Scala. Jupyter lets you leverage big data tools, such as Apache Spark, from Python, R, and Scala — or explore that same data with pandas, scikit-learn, ggplot2, PyTorch and TensorFlow. And, of course, Juno Connect lets you use whichever language kernels and libraries are installed on your Jupyter server right on your iPhone or iPad.

About

Python IDE & Jupyter

This app provides a full-featured Python coding environment for mobile devices. It supports both Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks, offering offline execution, code completion, and access to popular data science libraries.

Highlights
  • Python script and Jupyter notebook support
  • Offline code execution
  • Code completion and console
  • File and folder navigation
  • Data science library integration
  • Package management
Features
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Zero-setup Python IDE that runs your code offline, an AI coding assistant, and a developer toolbox — in a first-class citizen app for iPad and iPhone. Juno is designed to cover all your Python coding needs, supporting both Python scripts (.py) and Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb) — a document format focused on applying Python to data analysis and computational science. FREE FEATURES - Navigate and manage files and folders, quickly preview documents and media - Browse and edit Jupyter notebooks in a powerful, customizable notebook editor with beautifully rendered previews — editing is free - Write and edit code sources, scripts, JSON, XML, and other text-based formats — one versatile editor for code and text alike, with syntax highlighting - Add quick access bookmarks for file system locations outside the app's sandbox, or simply open documents in place PRO FEATURES Only one thing in Juno is Pro: running code. Even that is free to try — a generous trial allowance lets you run notebooks, scripts, projects, and the REPL before you buy. After the trial, running code unlocks with a one-time Pro purchase — not a subscription. - Run Jupyter notebooks, Python scripts, and whole projects locally with the built-in Python 3.13 interpreter and a full suite of up-to-date, preinstalled scientific and data packages — entirely offline - Explore interactively in a Python REPL — open a standalone prompt, or drop into it after running a script or project to keep exploring what it defined - Search the variables, functions, and imports in your session with the Object Inspector — no need to print each one - Open any folder as a project: file tree, multiple editor tabs, run any script, with a coding assistant aware of the whole project - Keep side outputs — Preview, Browser, Console, Object Inspector — open as side-by-side tabs in an output sidebar - View local web servers and HTML your code produces in a built-in browser with developer debug tools - Long-running scripts and Jupyter sessions keep going in the background - Automate with Shortcuts and Siri: App Intents run a Python file, run Python code, or open a file — pass arguments and files, capture output, and chain actions - Leverage powerful data analysis, machine learning and developer tools: NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, LXML, and more - Enjoy painless package management: install any pure Python package with an intuitive package manager AI CODING ASSISTANT The assistant runs on your key, not ours: add your OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini API key, and requests go straight from your device to your provider. You control what you spend and share — Juno never takes a cut. PYTHON MEETS iOS Reach native iOS APIs straight from Python with the built-in juno modules: clipboard, Keychain, device info, location, motion sensors, contacts, reminders, photos, sound, notifications, sharing, and Bluetooth. Show native alerts and pickers, present full-screen image, video, and web previews, or call into UIKit, Foundation, and any Objective-C framework via the Objective-C bridge. PYTHON SCRIPTS Python scripts are plain-text Python source code files with a .py extension. Juno lets you work on these with snappy, intelligent code completion, a console with full terminal emulator support, and a built-in media viewer for code-generated images, plots, web apps, and more — executed by the embedded Python interpreter, locally on your iPhone or iPad and completely offline. JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS A Jupyter notebook is a versatile document format that stores live code, markdown text, plots, images, and LaTeX equations in a single .ipynb file. Notebooks keep a record of every input and output of an interactive session, embedding rich output (HTML, images, video, plots) right in the document — a perfect playground for data analysis, machine learning, and computational science, and Juno makes working with them a breeze!

Screenshots

Juno Connect4 screens
Python IDE & Jupyter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Python IDE & Jupyter at Free against Juno Connect's $4.99. Juno Connect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (69% vs 59%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Python IDE & Jupyter is free to download; Juno Connect costs $4.99 up front. Python IDE & Jupyter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Juno Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Juno Connect against 4.6 for Python IDE & Jupyter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 633 and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Juno Connect's written reviews are positive against 59% of Python IDE & Jupyter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Juno Connect versus Python IDE & Jupyter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJuno ConnectPython IDE & Jupyter
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (633 ratings)4.6 (1.1K ratings)
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews — better58.8% of reviews
Number of ratings6331.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#23 — better#126
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB661 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRational Matter LtdRational Matter Ltd

Customer experience

Juno Connect

All ratings633 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews229 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral10.5%
Negative20.5%

Python IDE & Jupyter

All ratings1,089 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews379 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral10.6%
Negative30.6%

User reviews

Juno Connect

From 633 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app for Jupyter notebooks
  • 👍 Clean, modern, and touch-friendly design
  • 🚀 Stable and reliable connection to remote servers
  • 💡 Allows coding on the go with iPad
  • 👍 Responsive developer support

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs with cell execution and output display
  • 🔒 Lacks support for Jupyter Lab and other file types
  • 👎 Limited functionality in free version
  • 👎 Keyboard and navigation issues in landscape mode
  • 🐛 Unreliable connection to some remote servers

Python IDE & Jupyter

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Powerful Python app for iPhone and iPad
  • 🚀 Excellent for data science and machine learning
  • 🚀 Impressive Jupyter notebook performance
  • 👍 Sleek and elegant interface
  • 👍 Convenient for on-the-go coding

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Requires paid subscription to access full functionality
  • 🐛 Crashes frequently, especially when switching apps
  • 🐛 Buggy behavior with external file storage
  • 🐛 Inability to install many required packages
  • 🐛 Outdated Python version (3.6)

Bugs and requests

Juno Connect

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Fails to display notebooks
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Incompatibility with latest Jupyter versions
  • Issues with Korean and other non-English input

Requested features

5 requests
  • Support for Google Colab and other cloud platforms
  • Ability to edit text files and Python scripts
  • Tabbed interface for working with multiple notebooks
  • Improved terminal functionality and integration
  • Option to adjust font size and theme

Python IDE & Jupyter

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when running certain code or opening files
  • Unreliable file management and syncing
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for more Python libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn)
  • Improve integration with external file storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
  • Implement cell collapsing and text size adjustment
  • Add an interactive REPL terminal

In-app purchases

None

Juno Connect

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Python IDE & Jupyter

One-time1
  • Juno Pro Unlock$39.99

Questions

Is Juno Connect free?
Juno Connect costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Python IDE & Jupyter free?
Python IDE & Jupyter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Juno Connect or Python IDE & Jupyter?
Juno Connect and Python IDE & Jupyter are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 633 and 1.1K ratings respectively.
Do Juno Connect or Python IDE & Jupyter have ads?
Neither Juno Connect nor Python IDE & Jupyter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Juno Connect or Python IDE & Jupyter?
Juno Connect ships an update every 5 weeks, and Python IDE & Jupyter every 5 weeks. Most recently, Juno Connect was updated on September 24, 2026 and Python IDE & Jupyter on September 23, 2026.
Which is more popular, Juno Connect or Python IDE & Jupyter?
Juno Connect currently peaks at #23 in the App Store charts, and Python IDE & Jupyter at #126. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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