Iodine Code vs G App Launcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Iodine Code
A mobile code editor and Git tool that allows you to code, stage, commit, and push directly from your iPhone or iPad. It features syntax highlighting, code suggestions, and a diff viewer for a seamless coding experience.
- Powerful Git tool
- Multi-tab code editor
- Diff viewer
- Project file manager
- Syntax highlighting
- Code suggestion
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Iodine Code is a powerful git tool and beautiful code editor. With syntax highlighting and code suggestion, it offers you a fluent experience similar to coding on PC. Coding, staging, committing, pushing and viewing logs, every thing will be done just in your iPhone / iPad. • Powerful git tool (clone, pull, push, branch, tag, log, status, commit...) • Beatiful multi-tab code editor • Splendid diff viewer • Handy project file manager with Quick-Opener and Drag & Drop • iPad Pro smart keyboard shortcuts • Great syntax highlighting (Objective-C only so far) • Context awareness code suggestion (Objective-C only so far)
G App Launcher
Customize your app launcher with over 1000 Google shortcuts and create your own custom website shortcuts. Easily manage and sort your shortcuts through a drag-and-drop interface in the settings. Submit requests for new Google shortcuts or add your own.
- Customize app launcher
- Add 1000+ Google shortcuts
- Create custom website shortcuts
- Drag-and-drop shortcut management
- Filter and sort shortcuts
- Suggest new Google shortcuts
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This extension allows you to customize the app launcher and add more than 1000 Google shortcuts. And it is not limited to these 1000 Google shortcuts; the extension also allows you to create custom shortcuts to every website you want. In the settings page, which you can open via the "Configure" button in the app launcher, you can define which shortcuts you want to display in the app launcher via drag and drop (hold your mouse on a shortcut in the left list, drag it to the right list, and release your mouse). You can add or remove all shortcuts via the two buttons below the left list. The settings page also allows you to filter the 1000+ Google shortcuts via the searchbox and you can easily sort your selection via the "Sort A-Z" button. If the shortcut you want is not available in the list, you can submit a google shortcut request via the "Suggest a new google Shortcut" button. If you want to add a non Google Shortcut, add a new one via the red "add custom shortcut" button.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: G App Launcher at Free against Iodine Code's $4.99. G App Launcher also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Iodine Code's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 25%). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
G App Launcher is free to download; Iodine Code costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
G App Launcher holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: G App Launcher has 36 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Iodine Code's written reviews are positive against 25% of G App Launcher's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Iodine Code ships an update every 7 months, G App Launcher every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Iodine Code | G App Launcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 3.5 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 24.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 典 熊 | Carlos Jeurissen |
Customer experience
Iodine Code
G App Launcher
Bugs and requests
Iodine Code
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
G App Launcher
Reported bugs
13 issues- Shortcut toggles not working on Sonoma
- Blank pop-up when clicking icon
- Extension freezes/lags
- Constant resets of shortcuts
- Extension disappears from Safari
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- Changes do not survive Safari restart
- Button to 'Quit and Open Safari Extensions' does nothing
- App asks for permissions repeatedly
- Two logos displayed in Safari
- Extension is greyed-out and nonfunctional on anything except a blank tab
- App doesn't redirect to correct area
- App keeps reloading by itself
- Shortcut behavior toggles do not seem to work
Requested features
4 requests- Open Google Doc directly into current tab
- Dark mode option
- Change/add custom icons for toolbar icon
- Access shortcuts without going through Safari
In-app purchases
Iodine Code
No in-app purchases
G App Launcher
No in-app purchases
Questions
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