# Userscripts vs CodeViewer

The clearest difference is price: Userscripts at Free against CodeViewer's $0.29. Userscripts also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and chart position (#22 vs unranked). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Userscripts is free to download; CodeViewer costs $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Userscripts ships an update monthly, CodeViewer every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | Userscripts | CodeViewer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | **Free** | $0.29 |
| Rating | **[4.3 (181 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/userscripts/id1463298887/reviews)** | — |
| Number of ratings | **181** | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.1% of reviews | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | **Monthly** | Every 8 months |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | **#22** | — |
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Requires iOS | **15.0** | 17.2 |
| Devices | **iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac** | iPhone, iPad |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [Justin Wasack](https://appshunter.io/developer/1463298886) | [健 王](https://appshunter.io/developer/1558318494) |

## What reviewers say

### Userscripts

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/userscripts/id1463298887)

**Currently charting:** #22 Top Free · Developer Tools (US App Store)

This open-source Safari extension allows you to run custom JavaScript and CSS code on any website. Enhance your browsing experience with personalized styling, automatic redirects, and ad-blocking.

**Highlights:** Run custom JavaScript, Inject custom CSS, Automatic page redirection, Website page manipulation, Custom ad-blocking, Open source, No user tracking

**Features:** Safari Extension, Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

- 🚀 Works well to inject CSS on iPad in Safari
- 👍 Best thing since sliced bread
- 💡 Allows you to do thousands of things that were previously desktop only
- 🔒 Very stable and works flawlessly with Safari
- 👍 Excellent Safari extension

**What reviewers complain about**

- 🐛 Satisfactory to an extent, stops working sometimes
- 🐛 Broke until reinstall
- 🐛 Slowed my Safari down to a crawl
- 🐛 Unpredictable when it applies scripts, but still useful
- 🐛 It's been way too unpredictable for a while now

**Reported bugs**

- Failed to load user data
- Saying there's an error when trying to download something
- Won't work, keeps saying there's an issue and retry
- Disappeared from Safari preferences and won't return after troubleshooting

**Requested features**

- Add support for Safari Tech Preview
- Allow editing of userscripts from the browser extension popup
- Allow creation of a new script from the Safari Extension for the current site
- Allow specifying the order in which scripts should be loaded
- Add support for running scripts in normal mode, private mode or both


### CodeViewer

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/codeviewer/id6443973448)

**In-app purchases:** none


## Frequently asked questions

### Is Userscripts free?

Userscripts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

### Is CodeViewer free?

CodeViewer costs $0.29, with no in-app purchases.

### Do Userscripts or CodeViewer have ads?

Neither Userscripts nor CodeViewer shows ads.

### Which is updated more often, Userscripts or CodeViewer?

Userscripts ships an update monthly, and CodeViewer every 8 months. Most recently, Userscripts was updated on September 22, 2026 and CodeViewer on September 21, 2026.

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*Compared by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/) from daily US App Store data. Review summaries are generated from verbatim App Store reviews.*
