Comparison

URL Editor Portable vs Icelus

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

Head to head
About

URL Editor Portable

Features
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Easily view and edit various contents of the URL, such as protocol, port, host, path, parameters, etc. - Support location information viewing and editing - Support parameter viewing and editing - Support real-time synchronization of viewing and editing - Support storage and fast retrieval of historical records

About

Icelus

Features
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Icelus is a design tool for screens. Design on a real canvas; underneath, every screen is text. Pick a part, tap the canvas, and it lands there as a real button, field, switch or table. One switch in Settings shows the same screen as box-drawing characters. Buttons, inputs, tables, date pickers, tab bars, charts, 38 parts in all. Draw arrows between them, add a big title, and move things around until the screen looks right. Or type the whole screen in a few lines and let Icelus draw it. Then copy it. A Icelus screen is text underneath, so it pastes into a pull request, an issue, a README, a chat or a code comment, and it stays editable wherever it lands. No image to attach, no design file to open. What you get: - A real canvas: parts draw as real controls on artboards, with a Settings switch for the text look - Brush, eraser, selections, gradients, 16 terminal colors, adjustment layers and masks - 38 parts, each its own object you can move, resize, duplicate and reorder - Several screens on one canvas, linked by arrows, copied as one document - Screen templates: sign in, settings, list, detail, empty state - Highlights, your own saved parts, and iOS, Material, terminal and email packs - Copy HTML: the layout as real elements for a developer - Paste any text wireframe and edit it - Shortcuts: Draw a screen, Make plain ASCII - 27 languages and full VoiceOver support - Arrows that stay attached when parts move - Type a screen in a few lines, and copy any sketch back as those lines - Turn a photo into block art, or trace over one - Text boxes, banners and five box styles - Tables you edit as typed rows, with columns that grow - Bar charts, sparklines and progress rows drawn from numbers - Flowcharts from a line like a -> b -> c - Sequence diagrams from lines like User -> App: Sign in - Trees from an indented list - Groups that move as one - A layer list: hide, lock, reorder - Symbols: edit one copy, every copy follows - Pressed, disabled and error states - Snap and alignment guides - Copy as text, Markdown or plain ASCII, or share an image - Autosave and 50 steps of undo - Keyboard control on the Mac - The same project file on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and the web Everything stays on your device. An account is optional, and nothing you draw is uploaded. No tracking. One price, no subscription. The web version at icelus.jaybulb.com is free.

Screenshots

URL Editor Portable4 screens
Icelus3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Icelus at daily against URL Editor Portable's every 3 weeks. Icelus also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99). URL Editor Portable's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

URL Editor Portable costs $1.99 and Icelus $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

URL Editor Portable ships an update every 3 weeks, Icelus daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
URL Editor Portable versus Icelus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterURL Editor PortableIcelus
Price$1.99$0.99 โ€” better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer้‡‘ๆ”€ ่™žJoshua Trommel

In-app purchases

None

URL Editor Portable

No in-app purchases

None

Icelus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is URL Editor Portable free?
URL Editor Portable costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Icelus free?
Icelus costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do URL Editor Portable or Icelus have ads?
Neither URL Editor Portable nor Icelus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, URL Editor Portable or Icelus?
URL Editor Portable ships an update every 3 weeks, and Icelus daily. Most recently, URL Editor Portable was updated on October 24, 2026 and Icelus on October 25, 2026.

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