Lua IDE Fresh Edition vs LispPad Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lua IDE Fresh Edition
Learn and code Lua with this comprehensive application. It features grammar highlighting, direct code execution for testing, and a suite of practical functions to enhance your coding experience. Share your code and master Lua efficiently.
- Grammar highlighting
- Direct code execution
- Code sharing
- Practical functions
- Efficient learning
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* * * * * Grammar highlights the learning materials to make learning easier. * * * * * Directly run code examples make it easier for you to test. * * * * * Rich and practical functions make it easier for you to use. This is our Lua learning application. Set learning, coding, compiling, sharing code in one. Efficient learning, happy test, easy operation. Everything is in the mastery... Come and try it!!!!!!!
LispPad Go
This app is a lightweight development environment for writing and running Scheme code on iOS. It features a Scheme interpreter, a console for interaction, and a text editor with syntax highlighting and smart indentation. It supports R7RS standard Scheme with a wide range of libraries, including iOS-specific ones.
- Integrated Scheme interpreter
- Read-eval-print loop console
- Syntax highlighting text editor
- R7RS standard Scheme support
- iOS-specific libraries
- Hygienic macros
- Full numerical tower support
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LispPad Go is a simple, lightweight, integrated development environment for developing and running Scheme code on iOS. The language supported by LispPad Go is based on the R7RS standard of the Scheme programming language. LispPad Go provides the following components: • A fully integrated Scheme interpreter • A console with a read-eval-print loop to interact with the interpreter • A text editor for writing Scheme code, supporting syntax highlighting, smart indentation, parenthesis matching, etc. • A large range of libraries, including iOS-specific libraries e.g. for networking, graphics, audio, databases, archival, text processing, etc. • Support for the Shortcuts app, allowing the execution of LispPad programs as standalone applications The Scheme dialect supported by LispPad Go provides the following features: • R7RS-compliant libraries • Hygienic macros based on syntax-rules • First-class environments • call/cc, dynamic-wind and exceptions • Dynamically-scoped parameters • Multiple return values • Delayed execution via promises and streams • Support for the full numerical tower consisting of arbitrary size integers, rationals, real numbers, and inexact complex numbers. • Unicode strings and characters • Vectors and bytevectors • Text and binary ports • R7RS-compliant extensible records • R6RS-compliant hashtables and enumerations • Threads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LispPad Go at none against Lua IDE Fresh Edition's 1. LispPad Go also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Lua IDE Fresh Edition's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Lua IDE Fresh Edition sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LispPad Go asks for nothing beyond the download.
LispPad Go holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Lua IDE Fresh Edition's written reviews are positive against 96% of LispPad Go's.
Lua IDE Fresh Edition ships an update every 8 months, LispPad Go every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lua IDE Fresh Edition | LispPad Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) | 4.9 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小文 黄 | Matthias Zenger |
Customer experience
Lua IDE Fresh Edition
LispPad Go
In-app purchases
Lua IDE Fresh Edition
- Convenient functions$2.99
LispPad Go
No in-app purchases








