Code vs Combine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Code
This app provides a comprehensive developer suite on your mobile device, including a code editor with syntax highlighting and autocompletion, a file explorer, and integrated Git, SSH, and FTP/SFTP clients. It allows you to work on projects anywhere, transforming your device into a portable workstation.
- Code editor with themes and syntax highlighting
- File explorer for easy navigation
- Integrated Git for version control
- Terminal with Bash support
- SSH client for remote connections
- FTP/SFTP support
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Code, Work Anywhere! This app has an entire developer suite embedded in this app, and it's fully native! ## Code Editor - Various Themes - Colored Syntax - Autocompletion - Minimap - Row Diff indicator ## File Explorer Move between your file like if you were at your main workstation. ## Git - Clone - Commit - Fetch - Push - Pull - Tag and more! ## Terminal An integrated Shell that support most of the commands available ( Yes, Curl is supported ;-) ) ## SSH Connect to a remote machine with no problems ## FTP / SFTP Since some of you was needing this, we've added support for it! The only app that will allow you to use your device like a real workstation! Code! Privacy Policy: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/apppurchases-6fa17.appspot.com/o/PrivacyPolicy.html?alt=media&app=Code Terms of Service: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/apppurchases-6fa17.appspot.com/o/TermsAndConditions.html?alt=media&app=Code Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Combine
Transform your mobile device into a professional coding studio. This app offers advanced code editing, live previews, and comprehensive Git integration for developers on the go. Work offline, debug efficiently, and manage your projects seamlessly.
- Expert syntax highlighting and code completion
- Offline coding and live web preview
- Advanced Git repository management
- Smart auto-completion and code folding
- Live element inspection and debugging tools
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Network monitor and web audit reports
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Professional coding with zero compromises. Turn your iPhone or iPad into a professional development studio. Code offline anywhere, run code, preview web projects live, seamlessly manage Git repositories, and use advanced debugging tools to accelerate your workflow. CODE EDITOR • Expert syntax highlighting and intelligent code completion for over 85 programming languages. • Code completely offline: no account or internet connection needed. • Choose from 70 exclusive themes or create your own custom themes with over 200 customizable elements. • Smart auto-completion with auto-closing brackets/quotes/comments, auto-indent, auto-surround, and bracket pair colorization. • Choose from over 160 quick actions for your customizable toolbar including running code, undo, redo, character insertion, text transformation, and so much more. • Live web preview: render HTML, CSS, and Markdown with instant updates. Load CSS files directly from your device to see changes in real-time. • Smart element inspection: tap any element in the live preview for instant highlighting with size, role, and layout details. Long-press to dive deeper and review computed styles, bounding box data, and the complete DOM hierarchy. • Code execution: run JavaScript as a standalone script or within HTML previews for full DOM interactivity. Review real-time console logs, errors, and warnings as they happen. • Comprehensive web audit: get scored reports in live previews across four key categories - accessibility, best practices, PWA readiness, and SEO. • Network monitor: capture all HTTP requests with headers, timing, and response data. Export as Curl commands or HAR files for streamlined collaboration and debugging. • Share live previews as images and PDFs, and instantly transform Markdown to HTML. • Advanced find and replace with regex support, case matching, selection limiting, and search history. • Fully customizable with hundreds of settings synced across all your devices. • Real-time error detection and code validation with on-demand code review. • Multi-cursor support: use up to 100 cursors simultaneously for rapid text editing. • Intelligent code folding with customizable strategies. • Live minimap and slider, with real-time rendering of actual characters or color blocks. • Choose from 90 font families with dynamic sizing and endless colors. • Powerful diff editor with customizable algorithms and conflict resolution. • Use standard, interval, or relative line numbers, or none at all. • Real-time fading of unused code and strikethrough of deprecated code. • Optimized for large documents and high performance. • Advanced features: sticky/smooth scrolling, read-only mode, tab completion and sticky tab stops, and indentation detection. • Professional customization: placeholders, word-wrapping, encoding methods, whitespace rendering, variable line-height, and cursor styling. GIT CLIENT • Complete Git workflow: create, clone, fetch, push, pull, and manage repositories. • Secure authentication: use personal access tokens or SSH keys, securely stored in iCloud Keychain with end-to-end encryption. • Full branch management: view, checkout, merge, rebase, rename, and reset branches. • Advanced operations: stage and commit changes, stash work for later, and resolve conflicts. • Manage commits: view, amend, checkout, cherry-pick, and revert commits. • Powerful comparisons: compare branches, commits, and tags. • Repository insights: browse commit history, view diffs, create and manage tags, and configure multiple remotes. • Performance tools: prune references and view branch reflogs. FILE MANAGER • Native iOS Files integration: your documents and repositories work with any app and sync across all your devices. • Complete file operations: browse, add, delete, move, search, share, sort, and tag documents. Privacy Policy: https://www.combineeditor.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.combineeditor.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Combine at 100% against Code's 38%. Combine also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0). Code's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days) and ratings volume (33 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Code sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Combine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Combine holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Code's written reviews are positive against 100% of Combine's.
Code ships an update every 2 days, Combine every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Code | Combine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (33 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 743 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Morella Folesani | Margins Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Code
Combine
In-app purchases
Code
- Code Pro3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Code Pro3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Code Pro$2.997 Days
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- Code Pro3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Code Pro - Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Code Pro3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Code Pro$14.991 Year
- Code Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Code Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Code Pro$19.991 Year
- Code Pro$34.991 Year
- Code Pro3 Days trial$69.991 Year
Combine
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year









