Manual Reads vs CodeInsight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Manual Reads
Manually input meter readings without needing specific hardware. This utility app simplifies data entry for submetering systems.
- Manual meter reading entry
- No hardware installation required
- Data input for submetering systems
- User-friendly interface
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The Manual Read App by NextCentury allows users to manual enter reads for meters without installing NextCentury equipment.
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 in-app purchases: Manual Reads at none against CodeInsight's 1. Manual Reads also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). CodeInsight's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. CodeInsight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Manual Reads asks for nothing beyond the download.
Manual Reads holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Manual Reads has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Manual Reads's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeInsight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Manual Reads ships an update every 3 weeks, CodeInsight every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Manual Reads | CodeInsight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Next Century Submetering Systems | 飞 龙 |
Customer experience
Manual Reads
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In-app purchases
Manual Reads
No in-app purchases
CodeInsight
- Full funtional version$2.99
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