Comparison

PythonIDE vs Hitchecker

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

Head to head
About

PythonIDE

This app provides a full development environment on your mobile device, allowing you to run Python and JavaScript code locally. It includes a professional code editor, SSH terminal for server management, and various developer tools. An AI coding assistant is also integrated to help with code generation and debugging.

Highlights
  • Local Python 3.13 and JavaScript execution
  • Professional code editor with syntax highlighting
  • SSH terminal with SFTP and server monitoring
  • AI coding assistant for code generation and review
  • Built-in developer toolbox utilities
  • Scene canvas engine for graphics and games
Features
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PythonIDE turns iPhone and iPad into a local Python and Web development workspace. Run Python 3.14.7, build multi-file HTML/CSS/JavaScript projects, and turn code into notebooks, native MiniApps, widgets, and automations. HTML / CSS / JavaScript • Edit multi-file HTML, CSS, and JavaScript projects • Use offline completion and formatting for HTML/CSS, plus relative asset-path completion • Preview pages instantly with local images, scripts, styles, and other project resources • Inspect console output and resource-loading, Promise, and fetch errors in the built-in console Python Development & Debugging • Run Python 3.14.7 locally on your device • Use interactive input, launch arguments, ANSI/Rich output, images, and charts • Debug with breakpoints, step controls, call stacks, and a variable viewer • Use bundled scientific and development libraries, and install compatible pure-Python packages from PyPI AI Agent • Let the Agent understand project context, create or edit files, run code, and continue fixing issues from execution results • Git, SSH, web, and native tool calls are governed by permission and confirmation policies Notebooks & Native MiniApps • Open and edit .ipynb files, run cells, and display Markdown, HTML, images, and charts • Build MiniApps with native interfaces using Python + AppUI • Create widgets, Shortcuts, and automation workflows SSH, SFTP & Git • Connect over SSH with a password or key and verify host fingerprints • Browse, edit, upload, and download files over SFTP • Work with Git status and diffs, staging, commits, branches, remotes, and conflicts • Access WebDAV, Files, and iCloud Drive AI, remote connections, and some online features require a network connection. Installable packages must be compatible with iOS and the current Python version. Some features require Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pythonide.xin/privacy/

About

Hitchecker

Features
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Most tools for proxy configs begin with the config. Hitchecker begins with the network you are already on: the address the internet sees you at, how it is classified, and which DNS resolvers your iPhone is really asking. The links other people hand you come after that. WHAT YOUR CONNECTION LOOKS LIKE FROM OUTSIDE The Network tab opens with what iOS already knows, before anything leaves: Wi-Fi, cellular or wired, metered, Low Data. Ask for the full check and our server describes the address your request arrived from — the public IP, where it maps to, the operator and network type behind it, and a risk figure with a word beside it. Reputation flags — VPN, proxy, Tor, hosting — appear when they apply. WHO IS ANSWERING YOUR DNS Which resolvers this device uses is read locally, then identified: operator, country, and whether it is a public resolver or your network's own. Their answers get checked too. Three anchor names — dns.google, one.one.one.one and dns.quad9.net — are looked up twice, once through your own resolvers and once through Cloudflare's public DNS, which nothing on your local network can rewrite. Agreement reads as nothing unusual; disagreement is shown as an observation, with the addresses that came back. A measurement, not a verdict. AND A SERVER THAT ISN'T YOURS For VLESS, VMess, Trojan and Shadowsocks you can ask whether the server is still alive — five a day free, unlimited on Pro. Your iPhone stays out of it: the link goes to a server we run, which makes the connection itself and reports whether it answered, the round-trip time, throughput each way, and the same portrait of the address traffic would surface from. WHAT ACTUALLY LEAVES THIS IPHONE No account. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party SDKs. Hitchecker carries none of your traffic and never connects your device to a config you inspect. Only these go out, each at your request: the connection check's own request; the addresses of your DNS resolvers, so the tester can name who runs them; the canary lookups to Cloudflare; the config link you choose to test; a subscription URL fetched from your provider. Both checks sit behind a one-time consent screen, and the tester runs under a no-logging policy for links and IP addresses. THE LINK ITSELF, OPENED ON THE DEVICE Paste text, scan a QR code, pick a screenshot out of Photos, or send a link from another app. Twelve formats are decoded on the device: VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, ShadowsocksR, Hysteria, Hysteria 2, TUIC, SOCKS, HTTP proxy, WireGuard and OpenVPN. Each becomes plain labeled rows — transport, encryption, Reality keys, server names, fingerprints, timeouts — and fields Hitchecker cannot place get their own heading. Secrets stay covered until you tap them. THIRTEEN CHECKS, GRADED NOTE, RISK OR SEVERE Certificate validation switched off, a password in the clear, no transport encryption, ciphers long past trustworthy, an empty server name, sample credentials nobody replaced, half-configured Reality, a WebSocket on a plaintext port. Whatever fires is listed with its grade — Note, Risk or Severe — for everyone, and a clean config is told so in full, paid or not. Pro adds the reasoning behind each finding and what to change. A LIBRARY THAT CAN BE SWITCHED OFF Free keeps 40 configs and 15 favorites, searchable; Pro removes the ceiling. Want no history at all? Switch saving off and, from then on, no analyzed config is stored on the device — anything saved earlier stays until you delete it, and your own settings are kept locally either way. Any config can be passed on as a QR image, or as a text file when it is too big to scan — large OpenVPN profiles usually are — with a reminder that either carries the password. PRO, PAID ONCE, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION Past unlimited testing and history: batch work on many links, a subscription URL or an imported file; two configs compared field by field, where both sides must be the same format; your library exported as Text, Markdown or JSON.

Screenshots

PythonIDE4 screens
Hitchecker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: PythonIDE at #198 against Hitchecker's unranked. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PythonIDE sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Hitchecker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
PythonIDE versus Hitchecker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPythonIDEHitchecker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (39 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size668 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer文禄 张EGGINGTON CAPITAL LIMITED

In-app purchases

17 purchases

PythonIDE

Subscriptions2
  • PythonIDE Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • PythonIDE Pro Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time15
  • Donate · Chicken Leg$0.99
  • Donate · Lollipop$0.99
  • Donate · Bubble Tea$0.99
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  • Feed Dev Poop$0.99
  • Lifetime Premium Upgrade$1.99
  • Connect Your Own AI$1.99
  • SSH Server Management$1.99
  • 200次调用包$2.99
  • Lifetime Premium (Upgrade)$3.99
  • Lifetime Premium (Upgrade)$4.99
  • Lifetime Premium (Upgrade)$5.99
  • 500 AI Calls Pack$7.99
  • PythonIDE Pro Legacy$7.99
  • Lifetime Premium$7.99
  • PythonIDE Pro Lifetime$24.99
1 purchases

Hitchecker

One-time1
  • Hitchecker Pro$4.99

Questions

Is PythonIDE free?
PythonIDE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hitchecker free?
Hitchecker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PythonIDE or Hitchecker have ads?
Neither PythonIDE nor Hitchecker shows ads.

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