Comparison

Juno Connect vs GitHub

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

GitHub

Manage your code projects, review changes, and collaborate with your team on the go. This app allows you to stay updated with notifications, respond to issues, and browse files and code from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Browse notifications
  • Read, react, and reply to Issues and Pull Requests
  • Review and merge Pull Requests
  • Organize Issues with labels and assignees
  • Browse files and code
  • Discover trending repositories
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There’s a lot you can do on GitHub that doesn’t require a complex development environment – like sharing feedback on a design discussion, or reviewing a few lines of code. GitHub for iOS lets you move work forward wherever you are. Stay in touch with your team, triage issues, and even merge, right from the app. We’re making these tasks easy for you to perform, no matter where you work, with a beautifully native experience. You can use GitHub for iOS to: • Browse your latest notifications • Read, react, and reply to Issues and Pull Requests • Review and merge Pull Requests • Organize Issues with labels, assignees, projects, and more • Browse your files and code • Discover new and trending repositories ——— Terms of Service: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement

Screenshots

Juno Connect4 screens
GitHub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GitHub at Free against Juno Connect's $4.99. GitHub also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (37K vs 633). Juno Connect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, ads 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

GitHub is free to download; Juno Connect costs $4.99 up front. GitHub sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Juno Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GitHub holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GitHub has 37K ratings behind it against 633, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Juno Connect's written reviews are positive against 63% of GitHub's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Juno Connect ships an update every 5 weeks, GitHub weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Juno Connect versus GitHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJuno ConnectGitHub
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (633 ratings)4.8 (37K ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews — better63.3% of reviews
Number of ratings63337K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#23#2 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB175 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperRational Matter LtdGitHub

Customer experience

Juno Connect

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

GitHub

All ratings37,128 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews913 reviews
Positive63.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.6%

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

GitHub

From 37K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app design
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 👍 Helpful for on-the-go tasks
  • 🚀 Efficient for reviewing PRs and issues

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔍 Limited functionality compared to website
  • 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find features
  • 🔍 Lacks key features like code editing and wiki support
  • 🔍 Intercepts GitHub links, forcing use of app

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

GitHub

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login issues and inability to switch accounts
  • Inconsistent behavior when navigating between app and website
  • Notifications not always loading correctly
  • Inability to view all files in large pull requests
  • Crashes when trying to perform certain actions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for multiple accounts
  • Improve search and filtering capabilities
  • Implement code editing and file management
  • Integrate GitHub Actions and Insights
  • Allow viewing and managing GitHub projects

In-app purchases

None

Juno Connect

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

GitHub

Subscriptions4
  • GitHub Pro$3.991 Month
  • Copilot Pro$10.001 Month
  • Copilot Pro+$39.991 Month
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  • Copilot Max$99.001 Month

Questions

Is Juno Connect free?
Juno Connect costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GitHub free?
GitHub is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Juno Connect or GitHub?
GitHub is rated higher. Juno Connect averages 4.6 out of 5 from 633 ratings, while GitHub averages 4.8 from 37K ratings.
Do Juno Connect or GitHub have ads?
Neither Juno Connect nor GitHub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Juno Connect or GitHub?
Juno Connect ships an update every 5 weeks, and GitHub weekly. Most recently, Juno Connect was updated on September 24, 2026 and GitHub on September 25, 2026.
Which is more popular, Juno Connect or GitHub?
Juno Connect currently peaks at #23 in the App Store charts, and GitHub at #2. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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