Comparison

URL Components vs JSON Editor Mobile

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Decode and inspect URLs
  • Parse URL components
  • Generate Swift code
  • Generate curl commands
  • Generate JavaScript snippets
  • API debugging tool
Features
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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.

About

JSON Editor Mobile

This application allows users to create, visualize, modify, and validate JSON data. It offers both outline and text modes for editing, with features like syntax coloring, auto-indentation, and find/replace functionality. Premium features, including saving documents, are available via a one-time in-app purchase.

Highlights
  • View and edit JSON in outline or text modes
  • Error-proof manipulation in outline mode
  • Syntax coloring and auto-indentation in text mode
  • JSON validation with error highlighting
  • Find and replace functionality
  • Undo and redo options
  • Customizable appearance and font settings
Features
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JSON Editor is a beautiful viewer and editor for JSON data. It allows you to create, visualize, modify, validate, format and save your JSON documents. The app has the smarts needed to make the minimum changes when editing a file, even in the "outline" mode. This is especially useful when you keep the files in a repository, because only the relevant changes will be shown when diff-ing the edited files. MAJOR FEATURES • View and edit your JSON documents in "outline" (aka "tree") or "text" modes • The "outline" mode offers a great and error proof way to manipulate your JSON, by allowing you to easily add, reorder, delete, copy & paste the items • The "text" mode offers a quick way to interact with the raw text which makes up the JSON and to investigate invalid JSONs OUTLINE MODE • Perform standard operations: cut, copy, paste, delete, reorder • Edit keys & values • Sort sibling items or the children of a parent item • Sort the entire JSON by tapping the "Key" or "Value" columns • Auto-detect if the document is human readable or compact, and preserve this format • Find & Replace - configure where the Find (and replace) will take place: in "Key" column or "Value" column or both. • Duplicate items • Change font & font size for better readability • Undo & redo • More customization options available in "More ->Settings -> Outline Editor" TEXT MODE • Syntax coloring, auto-indentation and line numbers • Customize the syntax colors, both for the light and dark appearances • Validate the JSON document • Highlight of the validation errors, along with a description of them • Make the JSON document human readable or compact, even if it is not entirely valid • Find & Replace • Change font & font size for better readability • Undo & redo • More customization options available in "More -> Settings -> Text Editor" IMPORTANT: JSON Editor is available as free to download, but a few features are disabled by default: Save documents, Find & Replace, Sort. In order to get the most out of the app, and to enable the aforementioned features, "Premium" is recommended to be purchased ("Premium" is a one-time in-app purchase).

Screenshots

URL Components4 screens
JSON Editor Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: URL Components at 5.0 against JSON Editor Mobile's 3.9. URL Components also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). JSON Editor Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. URL Components sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and JSON Editor Mobile sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

URL Components holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: JSON Editor Mobile has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

URL Components ships an update every 25 months, JSON Editor Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
URL Components versus JSON Editor Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterURL ComponentsJSON Editor Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.9 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings111 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwapnanil DholVDT LABS S.R.L.

Customer experience

URL Components

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

JSON Editor Mobile

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

URL Components

One-time1
  • Support Development$9.99
2 purchases

JSON Editor Mobile

One-time2
  • Tip$1.99
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is URL Components free?
URL Components is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JSON Editor Mobile free?
JSON Editor Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, URL Components or JSON Editor Mobile?
URL Components is rated higher. URL Components averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while JSON Editor Mobile averages 3.9 from 11 ratings.
Do URL Components or JSON Editor Mobile have ads?
Neither URL Components nor JSON Editor Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, URL Components or JSON Editor Mobile?
URL Components ships an update every 25 months, and JSON Editor Mobile every 3 months. Most recently, URL Components was updated on October 5, 2026 and JSON Editor Mobile on October 3, 2026.

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