Comparison

Simple Refresh for Safari vs Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Refresh for Safari

Automate webpage refreshing in Safari across iOS and macOS. Set custom intervals from 1 second to 10 minutes for individual tabs. Monitor live updates without manual intervention.

Highlights
  • Automatic page refresh
  • Customizable refresh intervals
  • Independent settings per tab
  • Live countdown timer
  • Efficient battery usage
  • Persists settings across sessions
Features
Currently charting
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Simple Refresh brings automatic webpage refresh functionality to Safari on iOS and macOS. Stop manually refreshing pages—let Simple Refresh do it for you. With an intuitive slider interface or direct input, set your preferred refresh interval from 1 second to 10 minutes and let the extension handle the rest. Each Safari tab maintains its own refresh settings, so you can monitor multiple pages simultaneously with different refresh rates. Key Features: - Automatic page refresh at customizable intervals (1s, 5s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, or any custom interval between 1s and 10m) - Live countdown timer shows time remaining until next refresh - Slider control or click-to-edit display for flexible input - Independent refresh settings for each tab - Visual "On" badge shows active refresh status - Settings persist across browser sessions - Efficient battery usage with smart refresh engine - Available in 27 languages - Works on both iPhone, iPad, and Mac Perfect for: - Monitoring live scores, stock tickers, and weather updates - Watching for content changes without manual refreshing - Development and testing workflows - Any webpage that updates frequently Simple Refresh focuses on doing one thing well: refreshing webpages automatically. No complex setup, no unnecessary features—just reliable, automatic refresh when you need it.

About

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

View and inspect the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript of any webpage directly within Safari. This app offers syntax highlighting, content editing for previewing changes, and the ability to share or copy the source code. Customize the font size and app icon for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • View HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Share or copy source code
  • Edit webpage content for preview
  • Customizable font size
  • Alternate home screen icons
Features
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Achoo allows you to easily view the HTML for the webpage you're viewing in Safari. It shows the HTML (as well as any inline CSS and JavaScript) with beautiful and fast syntax highlighting. You can share the HTML you're viewing, allowing you to easily inspect it on an external device of your choosing, or send it to a friend, or simply copy it to your clipboard. You can edit the font if you'd like it smaller to display more information, or larger if you'd like to be able to make things out more clearly. You can also choose to edit the contents of the webpage, allowing you to make modifications and preview how they look. Changes are not permanent, simply refresh the page in Safari to return the page to its original state after you're finished previewing your changes. (Note: you're not editing the HTML directly, rather it's a visual editor of the contents of the page) As a bonus, it includes a variety of alternate home screen icons so you can customize the app to your liking beautifully.

Screenshots

Simple Refresh for Safari3 screens
Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector at 4.5 against Simple Refresh for Safari's 3.5. Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector also leads on ratings volume (353 vs 24) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Simple Refresh for Safari's advantage is review sentiment (52% vs 40%) and chart position (#66 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Simple Refresh for Safari costs $1.99 and Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector has 353 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Simple Refresh for Safari's written reviews are positive against 40% of Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Simple Refresh for Safari versus Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Refresh for SafariAchoo HTML Viewer & Inspector
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.5 (24 ratings)4.5 (353 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.3% of reviews — better39.7% of reviews
Number of ratings24353 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#66 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam WalkerChristian Selig

Customer experience

Simple Refresh for Safari

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive52.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative39.8%

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

All ratings347 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive39.7%
Neutral23.5%
Negative36.8%

User reviews

Simple Refresh for Safari

From 24 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Works effectively
  • 👍 Great for auto-refreshing
  • 👍 Useful for online training
  • 👍 Private and secure

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Latest update broken
  • 🐛 Start button not working
  • 🐛 Step backward after update
  • 🐛 Did not work
  • 🐛 No settings or management tools

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

From 353 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Clean and intuitive user interface design
  • ⚡ Fast and easy to learn functionality
  • ✏️ Smooth and simple edit mode for page content
  • 🎨 Ability to customize app icon
  • 📱 Works well for basic HTML source viewing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App appears abandoned with 4+ years without updates
  • 📦 Tiny popup window makes inspection difficult
  • ❌ No text search/find function in HTML code
  • 📝 No line wrapping option for long code lines
  • 🔧 Missing HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing capabilities

Bugs and requests

Simple Refresh for Safari

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Latest update breaks functionality on iPad
  • Start button unresponsive after update
  • Extension stops working after a few hours
  • Extension stops working on iOS 17
  • Extension stops working after Safari updates
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  • Extension turns itself off randomly
  • Extension stops remembering scroll position
  • Extension automatically disables after first refresh
  • Extension resets to 60-second interval after disabling
  • Extension not working on M1 Mac with Safari 15
  • Extension disconnects when changing tabs
  • Extension stops working after OS reinstall
  • Extension not compatible with Safari 14 (initially)
  • Auto-refresh sometimes stops working
  • Extension disappears from Safari extension list
  • Extension logs user out of OWA
  • Extension not working on Big Sur

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add countdown timer display
  • Allow typing custom interval
  • Longer timer duration (up to 30 mins)
  • Keyboard shortcut to start/stop
  • Toggle to disable refresh when tab focused
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  • Beep when change is noted
  • Clear tab cache on reload
  • Refresh by URL instead of tab
  • Countdown tracker for next refresh
  • Option for 3-second intervals
  • Utilize on multiple windows simultaneously
  • Remember settings after Safari restart
  • Sound alert for page changes
  • Ability to set different timers for different tabs
  • Remember scroll position after refresh

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App not working with iOS 18.6+
  • Font size menu corrupted on iPhone 16 Pro
  • Share button non-functional
  • Edit mode closes window and doesn't persist
  • Edit function shows glitched icons
Show 8 more
  • Buttons unresponsive on certain websites
  • HTML not formatted properly on many sites
  • Text remains portrait width in landscape orientation
  • Extension greyed out and cannot be enabled
  • Incompatible with Screen Time restrictions
  • Variable performance across different websites
  • Font size doesn't adjust line height accordingly
  • Edit button doesn't work as intended

Requested features

14 requests
  • Search/find function within HTML code
  • Line wrapping option for code display
  • Full HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing capabilities
  • Wider viewing window or resizable interface
  • Dark mode toggle option
Show 9 more
  • Better iPad and landscape orientation support
  • Code syntax highlighting improvements
  • Export HTML functionality
  • JavaScript console for testing
  • CSS extraction and editing tools
  • Image replacement capability
  • Proper HTML formatting/prettification
  • Share sheet integration
  • Text wrapping with adjustable line height

In-app purchases

None

Simple Refresh for Safari

No in-app purchases

None

Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Refresh for Safari free?
Simple Refresh for Safari costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector free?
Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Refresh for Safari or Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector?
Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector is rated higher. Simple Refresh for Safari averages 3.5 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector averages 4.5 from 353 ratings.
Do Simple Refresh for Safari or Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector have ads?
Neither Simple Refresh for Safari nor Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector shows ads.

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