Comparison

Refined GitHub vs ViRE

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

Head to head
About

Refined GitHub

Enhance your GitHub experience with this Safari extension. It streamlines the interface and introduces over 200 features, including improved link detection, visible whitespace, and one-click tools for common tasks. Gain deeper insights into code, pull requests, and repository history.

Highlights
  • Linkifies issue/PR references and URLs
  • Makes whitespace characters visible
  • Reduces tab size to 4 spaces
  • One-click merge conflict fixers
  • Reaction avatars for comments
  • View source of Markdown files
  • Build/CI status icon next to repo name
Features
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Refined GitHub is a Safari extension that simplifies the GitHub.com interface and adds useful features. ■ Highlights - Linkifies issue/PR references and URLs in code. - Makes whitespace characters visible. - Reduces tabs’ size to 4 spaces instead of 8. - Adds one-click merge conflict fixers. - Adds reaction avatars showing who reacted to a comment. - Adds a button to revert all the changes to a file in a PR. - Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name. - Adds a button to view the source of Markdown files. - Shows PRs that touch the current file. - Highlights the most useful comment in conversations. - Shows the first Git tag a merged PR was included in. - Adds a link to an automatic changelog for each tag/release. - Adds possible related pages and alternatives on 404 pages. - Displays the age of the repository in the sidebar. And so much more! 200+ features. See the developer website for a full list of features. The GITHUB and REFINED GITHUB trademarks are owned by GitHub, Inc. and used under license.

About

ViRE

This tool helps you visualize and test regular expressions with a playground environment. It offers features like code completion, interactive cheat sheets, and a powerful replace system with real-time previews. Easily debug and modify text with step-by-step search and replace functionality.

Highlights
  • Readable regex visualization
  • Code complete for operators
  • On-the-go regex unit tests
  • Powerful replace system with preview
  • Step-by-step search and replace
  • Regex scheme visualization
  • Multi-level history
Features
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ViRE is a Visual Regular Expressions tool. Find your perfect way to visualize regular expressions (RegEx), to accomplish RegEx unit tests within the playground environment, to search and replace particular RegEx components with code complete feature, to benefit from interactive RegEx cheat sheet, multi-level RegEx history, and more. We offer a free seven days trial of the app for you to explore all the features mentioned above without limitation. We hope that you’ll love the app. After the trial we offer three subscription options (one month, one year, lifetime) for you to choose to continue using the app. Main Features of ViRE: 1. Regex is finally really readable 2. Code Complete helps to find or recall the right operator (especially over the time) 3. Unit Tests allows to test your regex on the go 4. Replace System is super powerful. It has realtime content preview and allows not only to replace or to reuse capture groups, but also to do unit conversion, number formatting, date conversion, UUIDs insertion, indexes insertion, string capitalization, and others 5. Step-by-Step Search & Replace makes it easy to clean/modify text and debug regex at every step 6. Regex Scheme perfectly visualizes regex flow 7. ViRE History stores as many ViREs as you need ViRE is available on Mac and iPad. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Privacy Policy http://www.invoodoo.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use http://www.invoodoo.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Refined GitHub2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Refined GitHub at none against ViRE's 4. Refined GitHub also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (81 vs 15). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ViRE sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Refined GitHub asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Refined GitHub holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Refined GitHub has 81 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Refined GitHub's written reviews are positive against 71% of ViRE's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Refined GitHub ships an update every 6 weeks, ViRE monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Refined GitHub versus ViRE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRefined GitHubViRE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (81 ratings) — better4.1 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings81 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPad, Mac
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSindre SorhusInVooDoo LLC

Customer experience

Refined GitHub

All ratings81 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral6.2%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral9.4%
Negative15.6%

ViRE

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Refined GitHub

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

ViRE

Subscriptions3
  • Almighty Version: 1-Month$3.991 Month
  • InVooDoo One$5.991 Month
  • Almighty Version: 1-Year$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Almighty Version: Lifetime$199.99

Questions

Is Refined GitHub free?
Refined GitHub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ViRE free?
ViRE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Refined GitHub or ViRE?
Refined GitHub is rated higher. Refined GitHub averages 4.6 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while ViRE averages 4.1 from 15 ratings.
Do Refined GitHub or ViRE have ads?
Neither Refined GitHub nor ViRE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Refined GitHub or ViRE?
Refined GitHub ships an update every 6 weeks, and ViRE monthly. Most recently, Refined GitHub was updated on September 24, 2026 and ViRE on September 19, 2026.

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