iCodeEditor vs Developer Colour Palette
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.
Developer Colour Palette
Easily select, convert, and organize colors for your projects. Generate palettes from images or AI prompts, and share them with your team. Syncs across Apple devices.
- Color picker and value conversion (HEX, RGB, Swift)
- Organize colors into palettes
- Cloud sync across Apple devices
- Share palettes with team members
- Import images to extract colors
- AI-powered palette generation
- AI color detection from objects
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Developer Colour Palette helps you to choose, convert, organise and share the colours that you use for the projects that you are working on. Choose a colour using the built in colour picker, or enter the colour values to see them converted to HEX, RGB and Swift code. You can then copy the colour codes with a single tap to use in your projects. The app automatically shows your recently used colours for reuse and allows you to add frequently used colours to your favourites. You can organise your colours further, by grouping them in to different palettes for each project or brand that you are working with, name the colours to describe what part of the project they are being used for and write notes on each palette and colour. The palettes you create and colours you add will be automatically synced to the cloud and accessible on all of your Apple devices. You can also share these palettes with other members of your design team or with a client, so that you are all working from the same colour palette. Invite others to your palette and set permissions for each person you invite, granting or denying them read, add, edit or remove access. You can also see any palettes that you have been sent within the app and choose to accept or deny the invitation, to add the palette to your shared list. The palettes you create and the palettes that are shared with you are automatically grouped and separated. Import an image, client’s logo or style guide file from your photo library, files or camera and use the magnified colour picker to choose a specific colour from the image. The app will automatically scan the image using AI and detect the dominant colours within the image. Once it has extracted the colours, you can create a new palette containing these colours with a single tap. If you need a little help with inspiration or to find the right colour for your project, you can use the AI Assistant tool to generate a palette or get the colour of an object. Enter a phrase such as “The sea” to see various shades of blue, “Giraffe” to see the colours of a giraffe or “New York Taxi” to be shown the colour code of the New York Taxi yellow. Once the assistant has detected the colours, you can then create a palette with these colours and it is automatically named from your search phrase. *Subscription required for some features described above, including cloud palettes, sharing features and AI features - Monthly usage limits apply to AI features. - Subscription Details - Developer Colour Palette requires a monthly subscription after your 14 day free trial. Your subscription can be cancelled at any time. No long term commitment required. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and automatic renewal status in Account Settings after purchase. Price may vary by location. Privacy Policy: https://smudge.app/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://smudge.app/app-terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Developer Colour Palette at $0.49 against iCodeEditor's $19.99. Developer Colour Palette also leads on chart position (#138 vs unranked). iCodeEditor's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, device support 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
iCodeEditor costs $19.99 and Developer Colour Palette $0.49 up front. Developer Colour Palette sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. iCodeEditor asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCodeEditor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of iCodeEditor's written reviews are positive against 0% of Developer Colour Palette's.
iCodeEditor ships an update every 3 days, Developer Colour Palette monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCodeEditor | Developer Colour Palette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $0.49 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #138 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 斌 虞 | Thomas Coomer |
Customer experience
iCodeEditor
Developer Colour Palette
In-app purchases
iCodeEditor
No in-app purchases
Developer Colour Palette
- Cloud Palettes14 Days trial$2.991 Month
Questions
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