NapCat vs Pocket Trailer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NapCat
Access and read your favorite GitHub repositories offline on any device. This app offers a powerful code editor and comfortable reading experience with syntax highlighting for over 90 languages. Enjoy your code anywhere, anytime.
- Offline Git client
- Code editor
- Syntax highlighting
- Starred repository access
- Supports 90+ languages
- Customizable themes
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Reading and exploring source code should be enjoyable and not limited to your desktop. NapCat is a GitHub client that lets you download your most-used or favorite projects for offline reading and coding on the go. Features: • Universal: one app for all your devices • Fully offline Git client • Powerful code editor • Private Coding Agent Built-In (*) • Comfortable offline reading with beautiful syntax highlighting • Quick access to starred repositories • Support for 90+ languages and 30 themes, so you can read comfortably in bright sunlight or late at night (**) What users say: "Oh @napcatapp, you're the best discovery I've made all month." -- @davidlesches "The best code reader ever for iOS: NapCat - A GitHub Client" -- @elia "If you're in the market for a free iPhone github code reader, I totally recommend NapCat" — @drewbiewubie "NapCat on iPad is great when you want to offline study something cool on github" — @siuying ----- • Full version: access to all themes • Full version: unlimited offline code storage • Full version: access to private repositories ----- * Agent run locally, only context is sent to LLM ** Access to all themes is available with the Full Version upgrade Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Pocket Trailer
Stay on top of your GitHub activity with real-time notifications for pull requests, issues, comments, and merges. This app offers extensive filtering and sorting options, direct links to GitHub, and Apple Watch integration for quick updates.
- Real-time GitHub notifications
- Pull request and issue tracking
- Extensive filtering and sorting
- Direct GitHub links
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Mute and snooze notifications
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This is the iOS version of Trailer for the Mac, an app for tracking and getting notified about GitHub and GitHub Enterprise pull requests, issues, comments, assignments, and merges, across repositories and servers. • Link your account quickly & easlily by creating a GitHub API token, paste into quick-start and you're set. • Get info directly in-app, alerts in your notification centre, summaries in your today view, and now even through spotlight results. • Extensive display, filtering, and sorting options. • View comments and items directly in GitHub with just a tap. • View labels and track status items such as CI messages. • View and sync items from your GitHub watchlist, with options to sync only data which you are interested in. • Keep an eye on unread comments by glancing at Trailer's badge. There is also beta support for Reviews and Reactions. • Mute and "snooze" (temporarily hide) specific items to reduce notification clutter. • Takes advantage of the latest iOS features such as split-screen multitasking, background fetch and local notifications to keep you up-to-date. • Apple Watch app and complications to help you get a quick overview of new comments and status updates right on your wrist. • Optimised to be fast and light on memory, bandwidth, and battery use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Trailer at 5.0 against NapCat's 3.7. Pocket Trailer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. NapCat sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Pocket Trailer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Trailer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of NapCat's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Trailer's.
NapCat ships an update every 4 months, Pocket Trailer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NapCat | Pocket Trailer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shotdoor | Pavlos Tsochantaris |
Customer experience
NapCat
Pocket Trailer
In-app purchases
NapCat
- 1 Month Pro$1.991 Month
- 1 Year Pro$9.991 Year
- NapCat Upgrade$12.99
Pocket Trailer
No in-app purchases
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