Combine vs Code Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Code Editor
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Code Editor is a multi-tab editor for source files, config files and notes. Open a .py, fix a .json, edit a config, or read through a log — with syntax coloring that follows whatever you opened. MULTI-TAB EDITING Open several files at once and switch between tabs without losing your place. Each tab keeps its own scroll position, cursor and syntax mode. SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING FOR 14 LANGUAGES Python, JavaScript, JSON, XML, Markdown, Bash, CSS, Dart, Java, Kotlin, SQL, YAML, HTML and plain text. The language is detected from the file extension, and you can change it per file from the editor toolbar. QUICK NOTES Start writing without naming a file. Notes save themselves as you go and when you leave the app. Pin the ones you keep coming back to, swipe away the rest. NOTE TEMPLATES Six templates to start from: Meeting Notes, To-Do, Journal, Letter, Shopping List and Blank. FILES APP INTEGRATION Open documents straight from the Files app, iCloud Drive or another app's share sheet, edit them, and save or share the result. LARGE FILES Files too big to hold in memory open in a windowed viewer instead of the editor, so a big log opens in a moment rather than stalling. Binary files open in a hex view. CODING TOOLBAR One-tap insertion for the characters a software keyboard buries: Tab, braces, brackets, parentheses, semicolon, colon, equals, angle brackets, slash, pipe, hash and at. FIND AND REPLACE Search an open file with live match highlighting. Replace one match or all of them. COMPARE TWO FILES Open two files side by side and see what changed between them, line by line. WORD AND CHARACTER COUNT A collapsible bar shows live word, character and line counts as you type. SHARE AS IMAGE Export a snippet as a styled image, for sending code to someone who is not going to open a file. THEMES AND TYPOGRAPHY Light and dark themes, adjustable font size, line numbers on or off, and word wrap. WORKS OFFLINE Everything above runs on your device. Your files are not uploaded anywhere. PRO The editor, notes, tabs, syntax highlighting, search, compare and the file viewer are all free and unmetered. Pro removes the ads and unlocks every editor theme. There are two ways to buy it: a one-time purchase that never renews and restores on any device signed in to the same Apple Account, or a monthly plan you can cancel at any time. SUBSCRIPTION AND PRICING • Code Editor Pro — $9.99, one payment, does not renew • Code Editor Pro Monthly — $1.99 per month, renews automatically • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • A subscription renews unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cosmovex.web.app/apps/textvedit/privacy-policy Support: https://cosmovex.web.app/apps/textvedit/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Code Editor at none against Combine's 2. Code Editor also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Combine's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Combine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Code Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Combine | Code Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Margins Technologies LLC | Sahana A S |
In-app purchases
Combine
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
Code Editor
No in-app purchases









