Vimlike vs Sentinel Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vimlike
Enhance web browsing with keyboard shortcuts, mimicking a Vim-like editor experience. Navigate pages, manage tabs, and interact with links using customizable key bindings. Offers features like dark mode and reader view for a streamlined workflow.
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigation
- Customizable key mappings
- Link interaction (open, new tab)
- Tab management (new, close, switch)
- Insert and normal modes
- Reader view and dark mode
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Vimlike puts vim's keys on every page in Safari. j and k scroll, f labels every link, o opens one bar for tabs, history, search and the AI. Version 2.0 adds an assistant that works the page, shortcuts and clean-ups the AI makes for each site, signed site packs and a keyboard editor. Free. No in-app purchases, no account, no tracking. iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. KEYBOARD h j k l, gg, G, d, u. Link hints turn every link on screen into a one- or two-letter jump: f labels them, type the label to open, ⇧F opens in a background tab. t new tab, x close, q and w previous and next, ⇧Z reopen, g1…g9 by number. ⇧H back, ⇧L forward, gu up one URL level, yy copy the URL. Normal mode to navigate, Insert to type; Esc returns, and ` or § can stand in for it on iPad keyboards. Video full screen and picture in picture, zoom, and ? for the cheat sheet. SEARCH BAR Press o and type. The bar searches your open tabs, your local history, your top sites and the web in one list. ↩ opens the highlighted row; ⌘↩ sends the text to the AI instead. ↑ on an empty bar walks back through what you ran, like a shell. : opens your saved commands; / finds a link on the page by name. AI ASSISTANT Ask about the page, or have it do the work. It clicks, types, picks from menus, pulls tables out, opens tabs and reads your other tabs, with 28 tools. It asks before anything it cannot undo. Saved commands like :sum, :table, :translate and :links, plus your own. Five kinds of tool, each Allow, Ask or Deny, and a step limit per run. A long answer opens as a page you can copy as Markdown or print. Pick Apple Intelligence as the provider and it runs free on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, nothing to sign up for, nothing kept (iOS 27, iPadOS 27 or macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence on). Or use your own key for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek; the key goes in the Keychain. Or Open in browser mode, which opens ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity or DeepSeek in a new tab with your prompt and the page's text already typed in. SHORTCUTS AND CLEAN-UPS FOR EACH SITE Suggest shortcuts reads the page's places and proposes keys: gj JavaScript, gl Learn, gb the blog. The keys work while you try them; Save keeps them, Esc discards. A key is a click or an address, never a script. Clean up this page hides ads, banners, the sidebar or comments with styles you can remove later; the main text can never be hidden. By hand, gk on any page: click an element, press a key, name it. KEYBOARD EDITOR Settings › Keyboard lists every command. Pick a command, record a key, exclude it on sites where it gets in the way. Conflicts are flagged as you go. Script mode keeps the settings script for anyone who prefers to write it. SITE PACKS One signed file for one website: keys for its places, a few AI commands, CSS, and the Vimlike keys it hands back so the site's own shortcuts still work. YouTube, Gmail, Google Search and News, Reddit, Wikipedia, GitHub, Hacker News, Netflix and more. Verified on your device each time it runs, no JavaScript. Updates keep your switches and re-keyed keys. VISUAL AND CARET MODE v starts a selection, ⇧V selects by line, c places a caret you move first. Then vim's motions: hjkl, w b e, 0 $, f and t to a character, aw a word, as a sentence. y copies, / finds text, : asks the AI about the selection. PRIVACY No account and no server. Nothing about your browsing is collected. The bar's history is stored on the device and can be deleted in Settings. API keys live in the Keychain, never given to the page. Settings sync through your own iCloud, or stay on one device. With an AI provider, your prompt and the page's text go to the provider you chose and nowhere else. Languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Cantonese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese. Requires iOS and iPadOS 16.6 or later, or macOS 13 or later. Vimlike needs access to websites to take over the keyboard shortcuts; you choose which sites in Safari.
Sentinel Connect
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Sentinel Connect is the unofficial Microsoft Sentinel companion app, where you can access different information like Incidents, Watchlists, Analytics rules and more. INCIDENTS: - Overview: Get a list of your incidents. The color indicates the severity of the incident. Filter, sort and search the list. Swipe left to "Assign to Me" the incident, swipe right to delete the incident. Click on one Incident to see details. Click the + Button to create a new incident. - Detail: Get different detail information about a specific incident including description, status, severity, assignment, creation and modification time, entities, alert source, analytics rule, tactics, tags and comments. You can open the incident directly in the browser, share it or copy the incident url. Update Incidents by using "Edit". - Entity details: Get all information about entities for each entity kind for further investigation. - Alert details: Get all information about alerts for further investigation. - Comments: Send and Delete comments in the incident detail view or in the comment view of a specific incident - Tasks: Add, Edit, Complete and Delete Tasks for Incidents WATCHLISTS: - Watchlist overview: Get a list of your watchlists and search a specific watchlist. Click on one Watchlist to see the Watchlist items. - Watchlist items: Get a list of all items of a watchlist you selected. ANALYTICS RULES: - Overview: Get a list of your Analytics Rules. The color indicates the status of the Analytics Rule. You can search through the list and click on one Analytics Rule to get details. Change status or delete Analytics Rules by swiping left or right. - Detail: Get different detail information about the previously selected Analytics Rule including full description, status, severity, kind, modification date, tactics, If the kind is "Scheduled": Analytics rule settings (frequency, period, threshold), incident settings and the complete query to review. Update the Analytics Rule by using the "Edit" and Trash button. SETTINGS: - Settings: Auto-Refresh incidents every 1 minute, keep display awake and privacy screen. This app uses AdMob to cover the costs for development. Requires a Microsoft Sentinel subscription! This app relies on Microsoft APIs. In case these APIs change this app may not work anymore! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://buildthingsdigital.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Vimlike at 3 against Sentinel Connect's —. On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
| Parameter | Vimlike | Sentinel Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jasmine Studios | Hermann Maurer |
Bugs and requests
Vimlike
Reported bugs
14 issues- Default mode setting does not work
- Scrolling bug on iPadOS
- Cannot use 'f' to press buttons on webpage
- Hitting F again does not cancel navigation
- Extension not working after a while, requires reinstallation
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- Scrolling no longer works on iPadOS
- Memory leak after Ventura update
- Issues with custom bindings in Gmail
- Scrolling animation feels choppy
- Scrolling stuttery on iPad Pro with ProMotion
- Cannot get out of YouTube fullscreen with control+u
- Reconfigs don't work
- Safari no longer inserts username/passwords
- Extension not working on Google Domains
Requested features
15 requests- Open search result in current tab
- Customized new tab URL
- Support for opening bookmarks/favorites
- Visual mode for highlighting text
- Custom search URL support
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- Ability to move tabs left/right
- Option to disable scrolling animation
- More subtle color scheme for link selection
- Website specific settings to exclude key bindings
- Simulate 'o' and 'O' from other Vim plugins
- Command focus the URL of the page
- Specify keys for ACTIVATE_LINK command with 'Ignore keyboard layout'
- Command for changing tab order
- Easy in-app config for exclusion list
- Dark mode option
Sentinel Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vimlike
No in-app purchases
Sentinel Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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