Directory Viewer vs CodeInsight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Directory Viewer
Easily view file and directory lists generated on your computer. This utility app supports files created on Windows, Mac, or Linux, offering a clean, redesigned interface with bookmarking and saved file features.
- View directory and file lists
- Supports Windows, Mac, Linux files
- New design interface
- Bookmarks
- Saved files
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With this viewer you can view a file list of directories and files. You can generate this list on your Windows, Mac or Linux, and view this text file from this app. The app has been updated with new design. Previous design used a web based viewer, and now it has been redesigned to a new design code with Bookmarks and Saved Files.
CodeInsight
Read and analyze programming code on mobile devices with extensive language support and syntax highlighting. Features include GitHub integration, code searching, and symbol navigation, eliminating the need for a PC for code review.
- Extensive programming language support
- Syntax highlighting for multiple languages
- GitHub browsing and code downloading
- Code search and symbol navigation
- Upload code via Wi-Fi and iTunes
- Support for various archive formats (Tar, Zip)
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This app is aimed to provide a solution for user to reading programming code on mobile devices like phone and pad. The app provides rich features to make code reading a really easy thing with mobile devices, which makes you really don’t need a PC for code reading. 1. Supported reading codes written in languages in: C, C++, Java, Python, ObjectiveC, C#, Basic, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Bash, Zsh, Csh, Ruby, Assembly Language, Go, Rust, R, Tcl and a lot of other languages like: Ada, Ant, Asp, Awk, CMake, CSS, Diff, DTD, Bat, Powershell, Eiffel, Erlang, Falcon, Flex, Fortran, HTML, JSON, Lisp, Lua, Matlab, OCalm, Pascal, REXX, SQL, VHDL, Vim, SVG, XML 2. Support programming language syntax highlight for programming languages below: C, C++, C#, Java, Objective C, Eiffel, Fortran, Html, Header files, Asp, Bat, Asm(x86) only, Lua, Perl, Pascal, Php, Python, R, Ruby, Shell script, Tcl/Tk, Vhdl etc 3. Support Github. You can search/browse Github pages and download source code zip archive directly from Github 4. Support search symbols in the whole source code tree, this works like a “grep” command 5. Support jumping from symbol(function, class, global variable, struct, enum etc) to its definition and declaration 6. Support search in single source code file for any keywords. 7. Support list all the symbols in current file. 8. Support find functions who called current functions (C, C++only), similar to Cscope 9. Support find all the functions called by current functions (C, C++ only), similar to Cscope 10. Support find the class inheritance relationship (C++ and Java only) 11. Support download and reading Linux kernel sources 12. Support upload source codes directly from Wifi connections 13. Support download source codes from given URL. 14. Support iTunes to upload source codes 15. Support directly read sources code packaged in Tar, Tar.Gz and zip file format. 16. Support change Font Size and Font Family Name 17. Support no-wrap reading so that a line won’t be break down to multiple lines due to small screen. 18. Multiple code reading theme for reader to choose
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CodeInsight at Free against Directory Viewer's $0.99. CodeInsight also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Directory Viewer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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
CodeInsight is free to download; Directory Viewer costs $0.99 up front. CodeInsight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Directory Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Directory Viewer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Directory Viewer ships an update monthly, CodeInsight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Directory Viewer | CodeInsight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohit Khanna | 飞 龙 |
Customer experience
Directory Viewer
CodeInsight
In-app purchases
Directory Viewer
No in-app purchases
CodeInsight
- Full funtional version$2.99









