iCodeEditor vs GitHub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCodeEditor
This app is a compact and powerful code editor and file manager. It allows for parallel file editing with diff operations, direct execution of Ruby and Lua code, and efficient file organization. It also offers advanced searching and navigation features for source code and documents.
- Parallel file editing with diff
- Direct Ruby and Lua code execution
- Fast indexing and searching of code
- Advanced file management
- Markdown live preview
- Unicode and UTF-8 inspection
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Ultra small, strong will. Enjoy edit code with an ultra small code editor. Write your code and immediately syntax checking, run and debugging, regardless they're written with JS, TS, Python, PHP, Ruby, Lua, Perl, Tcl, Java, OC, Clojure, Kotlin, Swift, Erlang, OCaml, Haskell, ...., almost any programming language. Fav Features --------------- * Parallelly edit files side by side. * Fast goto arbitrary file and scroll to particular line. * Side by side edit files with remote terminal and AI code assistant. * Record live log from remote device or server for fast inspect runtime issues. * Indexing all kinds of source code file and documents for fast autocompletion and jumping. * High performance search with Perl regular expression and powerful file filters. * Fast switch between multiple searched results and locating code lines. * Fast download and upload big folders from server or load into editor from other apps. * Efficiently organise and manage folders and files, add, duplicate, cut, paste etc. * View coloured file changes with diff operation and revert to particular version. * Automatically detecting text encoding of a file and it's a binary file or not. * Directly run diff and patch operation on file or folders. * Directly run JavaScript, Ruby and Lua code within the editor, the app is scriptable. * Inspect unicode codepoint and UTF-8 sequences of a single character. * Show invisible characters and efficiently edit them. * Write markdown document and instantly live preview with each typing in. * Add comments and print coloured file changes to pdf file or print as paper. .... mruby supports 3.4.0. Lua supports 5.4.x. *** Release Note *** More than just a code editor, but also a file manager, universal document viewer and multimedia player. In fact, emphasise the app is also a highly efficient file manager is never too much. Since 2012, the app was originally developed as a code editor for iPad for code review, and later, iPhone also supported, while reading code and viewing files on an iPhone is certainly convenient and useful, but editing text file on iPad is even better. Today's iCodeEditor is almost brand new after years of continuous development, reliable, small and fast. Large software is considered harmful, this small code editor also follows the design philosophy, making software as small as possible, pursue terseness and performance, all operations including source code parsing and autocompletion are locally executing except file download and upload requires a network connection, making the app independent of network is another unmentioned key feature. People should have independent thinking to find good stuff by themselves, but not by those prompt feeds, ad video, picture, article, comments and ranks.
GitHub
Manage your code projects, review changes, and collaborate with your team on the go. This app allows you to stay updated with notifications, respond to issues, and browse files and code from anywhere.
- Browse notifications
- Read, react, and reply to Issues and Pull Requests
- Review and merge Pull Requests
- Organize Issues with labels and assignees
- Browse files and code
- Discover trending repositories
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There’s a lot you can do on GitHub that doesn’t require a complex development environment – like sharing feedback on a design discussion, or reviewing a few lines of code. GitHub for iOS lets you move work forward wherever you are. Stay in touch with your team, triage issues, and even merge, right from the app. We’re making these tasks easy for you to perform, no matter where you work, with a beautifully native experience. You can use GitHub for iOS to: • Browse your latest notifications • Read, react, and reply to Issues and Pull Requests • Review and merge Pull Requests • Organize Issues with labels, assignees, projects, and more • Browse your files and code • Discover new and trending repositories ——— Terms of Service: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GitHub at 63% against iCodeEditor's 14%. GitHub also leads on price (Free vs $19.99) and ratings volume (37K vs 1). iCodeEditor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads 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
GitHub is free to download; iCodeEditor costs $19.99 up front. GitHub sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. iCodeEditor asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCodeEditor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GitHub has 37K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of iCodeEditor's written reviews are positive against 63% of GitHub's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iCodeEditor ships an update every 3 days, GitHub weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCodeEditor | GitHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (37K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 63.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 37K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #2 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 斌 虞 | GitHub |
Customer experience
iCodeEditor
GitHub
Bugs and requests
iCodeEditor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
GitHub
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues and inability to switch accounts
- Inconsistent behavior when navigating between app and website
- Notifications not always loading correctly
- Inability to view all files in large pull requests
- Crashes when trying to perform certain actions
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for multiple accounts
- Improve search and filtering capabilities
- Implement code editing and file management
- Integrate GitHub Actions and Insights
- Allow viewing and managing GitHub projects
In-app purchases
iCodeEditor
No in-app purchases
GitHub
- GitHub Pro$3.991 Month
- Copilot Pro$10.001 Month
- Copilot Pro+$39.991 Month
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- Copilot Max$99.001 Month
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