Comparison

Carnets vs gterm

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

Head to head
About

Carnets

This app offers a complete, offline Jupyter notebook environment on your device. It includes essential scientific computing packages like SciPy, scikit-learn, and Seaborn, allowing you to write and run Python code, combine it with text, and share your work.

Highlights
  • Offline Jupyter notebook implementation
  • Embedded Python interpreter
  • Includes SciPy, scikit-learn, Seaborn
  • Supports Markdown for text
  • Share and open notebooks with other apps
  • Install additional pure Python packages
Features
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Jupyter notebooks are a powerful tool used in education and research. You can write small snippets of Python code and observe the result on screen, combine with paragraphs of text, using Markdown. Carnets provides a complete, stand-alone, implementation of Jupyter notebooks. Everything runs on your device, using the embedded Python interpreter; you do not need an internet connection. Compared to the standard version (Carnets), this app adds several packages targeted for scientific computation and learning: scipy, sklearn, seaborn and coremltools. You can switch between standard notebooks and the more modern jupyterlab using the Settings app. Of course, all the packages included with the standard app are present too: numpy, simply, matplotlib... To see the full list of installed packages, type "%pip list" in a code window. You can add more packages using "%pip install packageName", but only if they are pure Python. You can share your notebooks with other apps and also open notebooks or directories managed by other apps. Partial list of installed packages: astropy, babel, bokeh, cartopy, cryptography, cvxopt, Fiona, geopandas, geopy, gym, inequality, libpysal, lxml, mapclassify, matplotlib, networkx, nltk, numpy, openCV, pandas, parso, pillow, pyFFTW, pyproj, qutip, rasterio, regex, Rtree, scikit-learn, scipy, seaborn, segregation, shapely, soupsieve, spopt, statsmodels, sympy, wordcloud.

About

gterm

Features
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gterm is a real terminal for iOS. It renders with Ghostty's GPU engine for true xterm/VT emulation, connects straight to your servers over SSH, keeps your keys on device, and ships an AI command assistant that writes the commands for you. It's the same renderer and VT parser as the Ghostty desktop app. iOS can't fork/exec a local shell, so gterm drives the terminal straight from the SSH stream through a custom passthru IO backend added to libghostty — giving you a real terminal in a sandboxed iOS surface. GPU-RENDERED TERMINAL Real xterm/VT emulation via Ghostty's libghostty, drawn on Metal. Colors, ligatures, and reflow that feel native — not a web shim. SSH-NATIVE Connects with swift-nio-ssh — password and public-key auth, a PTY shell, live window resizing, and trust-on-first-use host-key verification. KEYS STAY ON DEVICE Import Ed25519 / ECDSA private keys into the iOS Keychain — device-only, never synced. Pick one or more keys to try per host. SHELL-GRADE KEYBOARD A custom accessory keyboard with the keys iOS forgets — Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab, arrows, and sticky modifiers for real TUI navigation. AI COMMAND ASSISTANT Describe what you want in plain English. The AI reads your recent commands and visible screen, proposes a command, and shows it to you for review before it runs. AI AUTO-COMPLETION As you type, suggestions surface above the keyboard — from your history and from your provider. Bring your own key; it's stored masked in the Keychain. Open source: https://github.com/madeye/gterm

Screenshots

Carnets4 screens
gterm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Carnets at Free against gterm's $1.99. Carnets also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Carnets is free to download; gterm costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carnets ships an update every 6 weeks, gterm monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Carnets versus gterm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarnetsgterm
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (92 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2.1 GB48 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperNicolas HolzschuchShanghai Tangzixiang Information Technology Co., Ltd

Bugs and requests

Carnets

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to create new notebooks
  • Incompatible with older iOS versions
  • Line breaking issues with external keyboard

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Tensorflow, XGBoost, LightGBM
  • Enable running code in .py files
  • Improve stability and performance
  • Add support for R kernel
  • Provide better file management options

gterm

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Carnets

No in-app purchases

None

gterm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carnets free?
Carnets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is gterm free?
gterm costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Carnets or gterm have ads?
Neither Carnets nor gterm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Carnets or gterm?
Carnets ships an update every 6 weeks, and gterm monthly. Most recently, Carnets was updated on November 7, 2026 and gterm on November 10, 2026.

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