LibTerm vs ID Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LibTerm
This app provides a powerful command-line interface for iOS devices, enabling users to run various shell commands. It includes tools for coding in C, Python, and Lua, and allows for text file editing with syntax highlighting.
- Command line interface
- Coding in C, Python, Lua
- Text file editor
- Syntax highlighting
- Install third-party commands
- Run C code
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LibTerm is a command line interface for iPhone and iPad. Includes what you need for coding C programs! Commands: ls, lli, ifconfig, ping, readlink, id, chmod, clang, telnet, host, du, link, dig, egrep, bc, date, gzip, nslookup, python2, fgrep, mv, python3, md5, say, luac, ssh-keygen, xargs, diff, cd, tee, chksum, lua, touch, dc, tar, chflags, rm, sort, uniq, awk, printenv, chgrp, find, mkdir, tail, df, pwd, opt, chown, gunzip, compress, llvm-link, nc, uptime, sed, setenv, stat, uname, sum, head, wc, cat, echo, unsetenv, unlink, pbpaste, rmdir, uncompress, curl, ln, cp, whoami, rlogin, tr, env, whois, pbcopy, python, grep, nm, jsc, clear, sh, help, exit, open, package, edit Edit text files and code with a graphical editor and syntax highlighting with the 'edit' command. Not enough commands? You can code your own scripts with Python 2.7, Python 3.7, Lua 5.3, install third party commands or even compile and run C code with the 'clang' and 'lli' commands!
ID Assistant
This free utility helps developers generate, validate, and manage UUID and CBUUID values. It also includes a searchable database of over 5,000 Bluetooth assigned numbers. All features are free and do not involve tracking.
- Generate UUID and CBUUID values
- Validate UUID and CBUUID values
- Adjust capitalization for IDs
- Copy and share generated IDs
- Search Bluetooth assigned numbers database
- 100% free and no tracking
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ID Assistant is a 100% free utility for working with UUID and CBUUID, helping developers get more done faster. [UUID] - Generate valid UUID values - Adjust the capitalization for your generated UUID values - Easily copy them for use outside of the app - Quickly validate UUID values that you wish to enter or paste into the app - Adjust the capitalization for your validated UUID values - Share your generated and validated UUID values [CBUUID] - Generate valid CBUUID values for 16, 32 and 128 bit values - Adjust the capitalization for your generated CBUUID values - Easily copy them for use outside of the app - Quickly validate 16, 32 and 128 bit CBUUID values that you wish to enter or paste into the app - Adjust the capitalization for your validated UUID values - Share your generated and validated CBUUID values [SEARCH] - Search through over 5,000 records in the Bluetooth database of assigned numbers for companies, services, characteristics and other related values All of this is 100%: - Free for you - Free of tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LibTerm at none against ID Assistant's 1. LibTerm also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (804 vs 7). ID Assistant's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, ads, monetization model 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. ID Assistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LibTerm asks for nothing beyond the download.
ID Assistant holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LibTerm has 804 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of LibTerm's written reviews are positive against 100% of ID Assistant's.
LibTerm ships an update every 8 days, ID Assistant every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LibTerm | ID Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (804 ratings) | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 804 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 428 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Develobile S.p.A. | Sean McNeil |
Customer experience
LibTerm
ID Assistant
Bugs and requests
LibTerm
Reported bugs
5 issues- SSH complains about keys when the remote machine does not require key auth
- Can't even do simple ssh on iOS 16
- Can't ssh, port option doesn't work, and if only it were possible to cd into private/mobile/Applications
- When attempting to append a file (cat test.txt >> sort.txt) it reads the second > as the file name and creates a file called > instead of appending the second file in the command
- Bus Error after ~10 DNS DIG queries
Requested features
10 requests- Странно. Можно добавить?
- Add git clone
- Please add nano
- Please add pip
- Please add bash
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- Please add traceroute
- Please add GCC/Clang support
- Please add more commands like natmask, natstat
- Please add dark theme
- Please add ability to install PyPi modules and pip
ID Assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LibTerm
No in-app purchases
ID Assistant
- Tip the developer$0.99









