Refined GitHub vs CodingKeys
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
CodingKeys
Enhance your coding speed on iOS with a custom keyboard extension. Quickly insert code snippets and access special characters for supported languages. The keyboard intelligently switches back to alphanumeric input and smartly moves your cursor.
- Custom keyboard extension for iOS
- Quick code snippet insertion
- Support for Swift and Markdown
- Access to additional keywords and symbols
- Automatic alphanumeric keyboard switching
- Smart cursor movement
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CodingKeys is a productivity keyboard to speed up typing code in iOS. Quickly type your code snippets in Notes, iMessage, or any iOS app by installing the custom keyboard extension in your Settings. Currently supported languages are Swift and Markdown, with more to be added in the near future! Hold down keys to select additional keywords and symbols. CodingKeys automatically switches back to your Alphanumeric keyboard when the context is expecting a normally-typed word. CodingKeys also moves the cursor smartly to the next place you should be typing when inside of closures, parens or conditionals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CodingKeys at 5.0 against Refined GitHub's 4.6. CodingKeys also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Refined GitHub's advantage is ratings volume (88 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CodingKeys holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Refined GitHub has 88 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Refined GitHub's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodingKeys's.
Refined GitHub ships an update every 6 weeks, CodingKeys every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Refined GitHub | CodingKeys |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (88 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Vincent Frascello |
Customer experience
Refined GitHub
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In-app purchases
Refined GitHub
No in-app purchases
CodingKeys
No in-app purchases
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