Comparison

Combine vs Stick Code

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Stick Code

Features
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An IDE & Terminal for your iPad

Screenshots

Combine4 screens
Stick Code3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stick Code at none against Combine's 2. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Combine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Stick Code asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Combine versus Stick Code: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCombineStick Code
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMargins Technologies LLCRicardo Bomeny

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Combine

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
None

Stick Code

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Combine free?
Combine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stick Code free?
Stick Code is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Combine or Stick Code have ads?
Neither Combine nor Stick Code shows ads.

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