Palgo vs Devmaxx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palgo
This app transforms interview preparation into a social and competitive activity. Track your progress, challenge friends to coding contests, and improve your skills with insightful data visualizations. It's designed for both competitive individuals and those who prefer solo practice.
- Social coding challenges
- Progress tracking
- Elo ranking system
- Weekly score insights
- LeetCode account sync
- Solo practice mode
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Palgo turns software interview preparation into a social, competitive, and rewarding experience — designed to help you consistently improve while providing a way to hold each other accountable. You can challenge your friends to real-time Palgo challenges, track your weekly progress, and climb the ranks against your friends. Whether you're a seasoned programmer or just starting out, Palgo keeps you accountable, engaged, and improving — even if you're not the competitive type. Features: - Solo-Friendly: Not into competing? Use Palgo to quietly track your practice and stay on pace for your interview prep. - Insights: Charts to show your weekly Palgo score and Elo over time gives insights into your consistency and growth. - 1v1 Challenges: Compete head-to-head with friends on real coding problems. - Progress Tracking: Automatically syncs with your LeetCode account to log daily problem-solving activity. - Elo Ranking System: Earn ratings based on challenge performance and climb the leaderboard. - Palgo Score: Our custom metric used to track weekly progress and challenge outcomes, powered by our Palgorithm. - Network System: Add friends, send/receive challenges, and compare stats - constantly updated. Start leveling up your interview prep today.
Devmaxx
This app provides a daily system design question to help software engineers master essential skills for interviews and career growth. It offers clear explanations, linked resources, and a private community for learning and practice.
- Daily system design questions
- Clear explanations and answer breakdowns
- Linked learning resources
- Access to previous questions
- Private developer community
- Progress tracking
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System design is becoming one of the most important skills for software engineers. Many companies now require a dedicated system design interview, and your career growth often depends on your ability to design large-scale systems. Devmaxx gives you one focused system design question every day across databases, infrastructure, APIs, theory, and product to help you learn these skills and stay sharp. Each question takes about two minutes, and includes a resource to learn more about the subject. What you’ll get: • A new system design question daily • Clear explanations for every answer • Breakdown of the correct answer • Access to previous questions • Linked resources to go deeper • Access to a private community of developers learning and building the same things as you • Progress tracking to monitor growth If you’re preparing for interviews, this builds daily momentum. If you’re already working as an engineer, this keeps your fundamentals sharp. Open the app. Answer one question. Land the offer. * All features described above require a subscription Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Palgo at 5.0 against Devmaxx's 4.3. Palgo also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Devmaxx's advantage is ratings volume (518 vs 2). On price, 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. Devmaxx sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Palgo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Palgo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Devmaxx has 518 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Palgo ships an update every 3 days, Devmaxx fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Palgo | Devmaxx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (518 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 19.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 518 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Siva Sai Sathwik Doddi | Arjay McCandless LLC |
Customer experience
Palgo
Devmaxx
In-app purchases
Palgo
No in-app purchases
Devmaxx
- Monthly Devmaxx Subscription7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Annual Devmaxx Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
