LispPad Go vs LaTeX Formula Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LispPad Go
This app is a lightweight development environment for writing and running Scheme code on iOS. It features a Scheme interpreter, a console for interaction, and a text editor with syntax highlighting and smart indentation. It supports R7RS standard Scheme with a wide range of libraries, including iOS-specific ones.
- Integrated Scheme interpreter
- Read-eval-print loop console
- Syntax highlighting text editor
- R7RS standard Scheme support
- iOS-specific libraries
- Hygienic macros
- Full numerical tower support
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LispPad Go is a simple, lightweight, integrated development environment for developing and running Scheme code on iOS. The language supported by LispPad Go is based on the R7RS standard of the Scheme programming language. LispPad Go provides the following components: • A fully integrated Scheme interpreter • A console with a read-eval-print loop to interact with the interpreter • A text editor for writing Scheme code, supporting syntax highlighting, smart indentation, parenthesis matching, etc. • A large range of libraries, including iOS-specific libraries e.g. for networking, graphics, audio, databases, archival, text processing, etc. • Support for the Shortcuts app, allowing the execution of LispPad programs as standalone applications The Scheme dialect supported by LispPad Go provides the following features: • R7RS-compliant libraries • Hygienic macros based on syntax-rules • First-class environments • call/cc, dynamic-wind and exceptions • Dynamically-scoped parameters • Multiple return values • Delayed execution via promises and streams • Support for the full numerical tower consisting of arbitrary size integers, rationals, real numbers, and inexact complex numbers. • Unicode strings and characters • Vectors and bytevectors • Text and binary ports • R7RS-compliant extensible records • R6RS-compliant hashtables and enumerations • Threads
LaTeX Formula Editor
Create and preview LaTeX formulas on your mobile device. Save your work as files or import existing ones. Features pre-configured buttons for common mathematical elements.
- Write LaTeX formulas
- Preview formulas in real-time
- Save formulas as files
- Import existing LaTeX files
- Pre-configured buttons for common elements
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With 'LaTeX Formula Editor' you can write your LaTeX on your phone, preview it and save it as a file or import it from an exiting file. You can use pre-configured buttons for the most common elements such as '\over ' or '\sqrt()'
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LispPad Go at 96% against LaTeX Formula Editor's 22%. LispPad Go also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (37 vs 4). LaTeX Formula Editor's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). 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.
LispPad Go holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LispPad Go has 37 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of LispPad Go's written reviews are positive against 22% of LaTeX Formula Editor's.
LispPad Go ships an update every 2 months, LaTeX Formula Editor every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LispPad Go | LaTeX Formula Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (37 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthias Zenger | Julian Lau |
Customer experience
LispPad Go
LaTeX Formula Editor
In-app purchases
LispPad Go
No in-app purchases
LaTeX Formula Editor
No in-app purchases
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