Comparison

iCodeEditor vs iWaka

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

iCodeEditor4 screens
iWaka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iWaka at Free against iCodeEditor's $19.99. iCodeEditor's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (14% vs 0%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

iWaka is free to download; iCodeEditor costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for iCodeEditor against 5.0 for iWaka. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of iCodeEditor's written reviews are positive against 0% of iWaka's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iCodeEditor ships an update every 3 days, iWaka every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iCodeEditor versus iWaka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriCodeEditoriWaka
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer斌 虞Pramodya Abeysinghe

Customer experience

iCodeEditor

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative71.4%

iWaka

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

iCodeEditor

No in-app purchases

None

iWaka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iCodeEditor free?
iCodeEditor costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iWaka free?
iWaka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iCodeEditor or iWaka?
iCodeEditor and iWaka are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do iCodeEditor or iWaka have ads?
Neither iCodeEditor nor iWaka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iCodeEditor or iWaka?
iCodeEditor ships an update every 3 days, and iWaka every 2 weeks. Most recently, iCodeEditor was updated on October 9, 2026 and iWaka on October 16, 2026.

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