Comparison

URL Scissors vs Regex Tester Pattern Editor

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

Head to head
About

URL Scissors

Easily edit URL parameters across multiple platforms. This tool allows for quick modification of web addresses for developers and power users. Available on macOS, iOS, and other devices.

Highlights
  • Edit URL parameters
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Supports macOS
  • Supports iOS
  • Supports iPhone and iPad
Features
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URL Scissors is a Safari extension for iPhone and iPad that helps you edit URL parameters without leaving the current page. Open the extension in Safari, adjust the query parameters, and apply the updated URL back to the active tab. It is useful for developers, testers, marketers, and anyone who often works with long links. Features: • View URL query parameters as editable rows • Add, edit, delete, and reorder parameters • Reuse recent parameters saved per website • Mark frequently used parameters as favorites • Works directly in Safari with a lightweight popup • No account required URL Scissors helps keep messy URLs manageable, whether you are testing links, removing tracking parameters, or preparing clean URLs to share.

About

Regex Tester Pattern Editor

Features
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Test a regular expression on your iPhone and see every match light up the moment you type it. Paste your text, write your pattern, and watch matches highlight character by character — no desktop, no compile step, no guessing. Most regex help on a phone is a static article you read. Regex Tester is a working engine: it runs your pattern with Foundation's NSRegularExpression (the same ICU syntax iOS itself uses), so what you see here is exactly what your app, script, or config will do. Invalid pattern? You get a plain-English reason instead of a cryptic engine dump. WHAT YOU GET - See every match highlighted inside your own test text, updating live as you type - Know exactly what each capture group grabbed — numbered and named, with character ranges - Preview a find-and-replace before you commit it, using $1 / $2 templates on your real text - Flip case-insensitive, multiline, dot-all and ignore-whitespace modes with one tap and watch results change - Start from 19 ready-made patterns for email, URL, IPv4, phone, hex color, ISO date, UUID, JWT and more — searchable and filtered by Validation, Extraction, Web and Format - Look up any token without leaving the app: character classes, anchors, quantifiers, groups, lookaround and replacement templates in a built-in cheatsheet - Bookmark the patterns you keep reusing with their test text and flags, and reload any of them in one tap PERFECT FOR - Developers who need to sanity-check a pattern away from their machine - Data and log wranglers pulling IDs, dates or fields out of messy text - Students and self-taught coders learning regex by seeing it behave, not by reading about it - Anyone writing validation rules for forms, imports or search filters WHY NOT JUST USE A WEBSITE? Online regex testers need a connection, and they want you to paste your text into someone else's server — a hard no when that text is a customer export, a log dump, or anything under NDA. This runs entirely on-device, works on a plane or in a basement, and keeps a keyboard-friendly phone layout instead of a desktop page squeezed onto a small screen. PRIVACY Every pattern, test string and result is processed on your device and stored on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking, no upload — there is no server to send anything to. FULL ACCESS Live matching, the pattern library and the basics of the syntax reference are free to use. Full Access unlocks capture-group inspection with ranges, the live replace-with-template preview, the complete cheatsheet (quantifiers, groups, lookaround, replacement templates and engine notes), and saved patterns. Choose the plan that fits: weekly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime unlock that never renews. Open the Test tab, paste the text that is giving you trouble, and write the pattern that fixes it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

Screenshots

URL Scissors4 screens
Regex Tester Pattern Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: URL Scissors at none against Regex Tester Pattern Editor's 3. URL Scissors also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Regex Tester Pattern Editor's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Regex Tester Pattern Editor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. URL Scissors asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

URL Scissors ships an update every 3 months, Regex Tester Pattern Editor every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
URL Scissors versus Regex Tester Pattern Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterURL ScissorsRegex Tester Pattern Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZijia WangPhuc Pham

In-app purchases

None

URL Scissors

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Regex Tester Pattern Editor

Subscriptions2
  • Syntax Cheatsheet Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Replace Preview Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Expression Validator Forever$29.99

Questions

Is URL Scissors free?
URL Scissors is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Regex Tester Pattern Editor free?
Regex Tester Pattern Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do URL Scissors or Regex Tester Pattern Editor have ads?
Neither URL Scissors nor Regex Tester Pattern Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, URL Scissors or Regex Tester Pattern Editor?
URL Scissors ships an update every 3 months, and Regex Tester Pattern Editor every 3 weeks. Most recently, URL Scissors was updated on October 7, 2026 and Regex Tester Pattern Editor on October 8, 2026.

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