Carnets vs Python IDE & Jupyter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carnets
This app offers a standalone Jupyter notebook environment for creating and running code snippets, combining them with text and Markdown. It includes pre-installed scientific packages and allows for offline use, making it ideal for education and research.
- Standalone Jupyter notebook implementation
- Embedded Python interpreter
- Offline functionality
- Pre-installed scientific packages
- Supports Jupyterlab
- Package installation via %pip
- Notebook sharing and opening
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Jupyter notebooks are a powerful tool used in education and research. You can write small snippets of Python code and observe the result on screen, combine with paragraphs of text, using Markdown. Carnets provides a complete, stand-alone, implementation of Jupyter notebooks. Everything runs on your device, using the embedded Python interpreter; you do not need an internet connection. You can chose between Jupyter notebooks and the more advance Jupyterlab using Settings. Numpy, Sympy, Matplotlib, Pandas, lxml, bokeh, nbextensions (including ipywidgets) and many other packages are pre-installed. To see the full list of installed packages, type "%pip list" in a code window. You can add more packages using "%pip install packageName", but only if they are pure Python. If you need scipy, seaborn or scikit-learn, please use our other App, "Carnets - Jupyter (with scipy)". You can share your notebooks with other apps and also open notebooks or directories managed by other apps. Partial list of installed packages: astropy, babel, bokeh, cryptography, cvxopt, Fiona, geopandas, geopy, lxml, matplotlib, numpy, openCV, pandas, pillow, pyFFTW, pyproj, rasterio, regex, shapely, sympy, wordcloud.
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.
- Python script and Jupyter notebook support
- Offline code execution
- Code completion and console
- File and folder navigation
- Data science library integration
- Package management
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Carnets at none against Python IDE & Jupyter's 1. Carnets also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 59%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Python IDE & Jupyter's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 316). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Python IDE & Jupyter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Carnets asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Carnets against 4.6 for Python IDE & Jupyter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 316 and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Carnets's written reviews are positive against 59% of Python IDE & Jupyter's.
Carnets ships an update monthly, Python IDE & Jupyter every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Carnets | Python IDE & Jupyter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (316 ratings) | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews — better | 58.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 316 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #93 — better | #135 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.4 GB | 661 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolas Holzschuch | Rational Matter Ltd |
Customer experience
Carnets
Python IDE & Jupyter
User reviews
Carnets
From 316 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent app for coding on iPad
- 👍 Convenient for learning and coding on the go
- 🚀 Works just like Jupyter Notebook on desktop
- 👍 Helpful for self-learning Python
- 👍 Useful for data science and machine learning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and stability issues
- 🔋 Battery drain and overheating
- 🔒 Unauthorized access to photo library
- 🐛 Issues with importing certain libraries like SciPy and Scikit-learn
Python IDE & Jupyter
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Carnets
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes and freezes
- Issues with saving and loading notebooks
- Problems with running scripts and notebooks
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for SciPy, Scikit-learn, and other scientific computing libraries
- Improve file management and integration with cloud storage services
- Implement split-screen or multi-window support
- Add more keyboard shortcuts and customization options
- Improve error handling and provide more detailed error messages
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
Carnets
No in-app purchases
Python IDE & Jupyter
- Juno Pro Unlock$39.99
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