iWaka vs WebForge IDE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iWaka
View your programming metrics from WakaTime on your iPhone. Track daily and historical stats for projects, languages, and editors. See recent commits and time spent on tasks.
- View today's top projects, languages, and editors
- Track current day and past date range stats
- Detailed summary of task categories, editors, and languages
- See time worked on separate projects
- Check recent commits of linked projects
- Supports light/dark mode
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WakaTime is an open source platform with open source plugins for metrics about your programming. This 3rd party client app is to see your programming metrics on your iPhone. Currently this app supports to display * Today's top project, language and editor * Stats for current day and past date ranges * Detailed summary of task categories, editors and languages * All projects linked with WakaTime * Check recent commits of linked projects * See time worked on separate projects * View task categories, editors used and languages used for programming on a particular project * View primary details of profile * Supports light/dark mode * Send feedback There are more features and UI/UX improvements to come in future. A new tab is coming soon with Insights! Stay tuned with iWaka!
WebForge IDE
A comprehensive mobile environment for web development, allowing you to code, run, and debug projects directly on your device. It offers a powerful editor, built-in browser with dev tools, and full Git integration without requiring a cloud connection.
- Powerful code editor with syntax highlighting
- Built-in inspect browser with dev tools
- Complete Git support
- On-device NodeJS & PHP project execution
- Code checking with in-editor notices
- Local project cloning and iCloud integration
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A complete, powerful web development environment for iOS. WebForge includes everything you need to develop, run, and debug your web projects on your iPad or iPhone. No cloud needed. Includes: - Powerful code editor with syntax highlighting. - Inspect Browser built-in, providing extensive desktop-class browser dev tools. - Complete Git support - clone, branch, commit, pull, and push. - Run entire NodeJS & PHP projects on-device. Support for includes and a wide variety of extensions. Run on your device in the built-in browser. - Clone projects locally to your device or open code stored on iCloud. - Includes customizable and extensive code checking with in-editor notices to keep your code bug-free. - No cloud needed, everything runs on your device. Easily build fantastic web projects on your iPad and iPhone! Privacy Policy: https://apps.pdyn.net/webforge/privacy Terms of Service: https://apps.pdyn.net/webforge/terms
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Verdict
iWaka and WebForge IDE both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of WebForge IDE's written reviews are positive against 0% of iWaka's. iWaka's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. WebForge IDE sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. iWaka asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for iWaka against 5.0 for WebForge IDE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of iWaka's written reviews are positive against 67% of WebForge IDE's.
iWaka ships an update every 2 weeks, WebForge IDE fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iWaka | WebForge IDE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pramodya Abeysinghe | Parallax Dynamics Inc. |
Customer experience
iWaka
WebForge IDE
In-app purchases
iWaka
No in-app purchases
WebForge IDE
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- SSH PluginFree
- JSHint Plugin$0.99
- Bookmarks Plugin$0.99
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- SQLite3 Plugin$1.99
- Git Plugin$3.99
- PHP Plugin$4.99
- Node.js Plugin$4.99
- Pro Lifetime$79.99








