Gradient+ vs URL Components
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gradient+
Easily generate beautiful linear, radial, angular, and elliptical gradients with 2 or 3 colors. These custom gradients are perfect for integration into your SwiftUI projects.
- Create linear gradients
- Create radial gradients
- Create angular gradients
- Create elliptical gradients
- Use 2 or 3 colors
- Integrate into SwiftUI projects
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A tool to quickly create stunning linear, radial, angular and elliptical gradients using 2 or 3 colors, which can then be used in your own SwiftUI projects.
URL Components
Instantly decode and inspect URLs, parsing components like scheme, host, path, and query parameters. Generate code snippets in Swift, curl, and JavaScript for debugging APIs and web links. Ideal for developers working with web requests and data.
- Decode and inspect URLs
- Parse URL components
- Generate Swift code
- Generate curl commands
- Generate JavaScript snippets
- API debugging tool
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Decode and inspect URLs instantly. Parse URL components like scheme, host, port, path, query parameters, headers, and cookies. Generate Swift, curl, and JavaScript code snippets. Perfect for developers debugging APIs and web links.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gradient+ at none against URL Components's 1. Gradient+ also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). URL Components's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. URL Components sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gradient+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gradient+ against 5.0 for URL Components. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gradient+ has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gradient+ ships an update every 37 months, URL Components every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gradient+ | URL Components |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | Every 25 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ankit Kumar | Swapnanil Dhol |
Customer experience
Gradient+
URL Components
In-app purchases
Gradient+
No in-app purchases
URL Components
- Support Development$9.99
Questions
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