Comparison

Shipy vs JSON Editor

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

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Shipy

Features
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Find the keywords you can actually win, write them straight to your App Store listing, and see what they earn. Shipy is keyword research for indie developers on the App Store, native on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your first 10 keywords are free, for life. No card, no trial. ā–ø FIND KEYWORDS YOU CAN WIN Popularity comes from Apple's own search data, not scraped guesses. Difficulty is built from the apps ranking for each keyword today, and an opportunity score weighs demand against your odds. Suggestions come from what the top apps really rank for, with your own brand kept first. ā–ø SHIP THEM TO YOUR LISTING Connect your App Store Connect key and, with Pro, Shipy grades your live name, subtitle and keyword field out of 100: every repeated word, every wasted character. It drafts a packed keyword field and writes it to your next version. Promotional text updates without a build. Your .p8 stays in your iCloud Keychain and never reaches our servers. ā–ø SEE WHAT THEY EARN Rank history for every keyword and storefront. With Pro, your real funnel sits next to it: impressions, product page views and downloads, split by search, browse and referrers, plus your revenue from RevenueCat and App Store sales. Connect Apple Ads for the paid side of each keyword. Stop guessing which rankings matter. ā–ø KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT One ranked plan across all your apps, each step a tap from the screen that makes it. Rank alerts when keywords move, and a "What changed" inbox that says when every number was measured. ā–ø YOUR REVIEWS, ANSWERED Read and reply to reviews across every storefront, and see the phrases your own users reach for. ā–ø GO DEEPER WITH PRO Competitor X-ray: every keyword a rival ranks for, and the gaps they missed. Seasonality: when each keyword peaks and when to ship for it. Genre trends, week over week. ā–ø WORKS WITH YOUR AI (Mac) An embedded MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Gemini CLI. Your agent can research keywords, grade your listing and draft a keyword field. You publish. ———————————— PRICING FOR BURSTY WORK ASO happens in bursts: a launch week, a big update, then quiet. • Free: 10 keywords, for life. Keywords you've added keep updating; removing one doesn't free a slot. • Credit packs: one-time top-ups for more research. Credits never expire. • Shipy Pro: unlimited research, the listing grade and write-back, analytics, revenue, competitor X-ray, seasonality, genre trends and the nightly rank watch. HONEST BY DESIGN When a data source degrades, Shipy says so. Stale data is marked stale, never dressed up as fresh, and nothing reaches your listing without your approval. Built by an indie developer. Every review gets read. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shipy.bartstudio.io/privacy

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JSON Editor

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Json Editor: Smart Json turns a wall of JSON into something you can actually read on a phone. The same document, three linked views. Edit in any of them and the other two follow — the text is always the source of truth, so nothing drifts out of sync. EDITOR • Syntax highlighting that re-tokenizes only what you typed, so it stays fast • Line-number gutter, wrap and font size controls • A punctuation bar above the keyboard: braces, brackets, quotes, true, false, null, indent, undo and redo • Invalid JSON gets a plain-language banner naming the problem, its line and its column. Tap Go to jump the caret there, or Fix to repair comments, trailing commas, single quotes and unquoted keys automatically TREE • A collapsible outline with indent guides, type badges and child counts • Search across keys and values, filter by type • Edit any node in place: rename, change type, reorder, duplicate, add, delete GRAPH • A tidy node-link diagram, left-to-right or top-to-bottom • Pinch to zoom, pan, tap a node to expand it, fit to screen • Tap a node to open an editor docked right underneath it — the graph edits as well as it browses • Expand all, expand to a depth, or expand one subtree • Export the graph as PNG or SVG FIND WHAT YOU NEED • One find bar in every view. Text search in the editor with match case and wrap-around; structural search in the tree and graph with scope and type filters, stepping through hits • JSONPath: type an expression and watch it evaluate live, tinting its matches in the editor, the tree and the graph at once. A documented subset of RFC 9535, filter expressions included COMPARE • Diff the open document against a file, the clipboard or a URL • Structural, not textual — reformatting is not a change • Changed subtrees are tinted in the graph, and array elements are paired by identity when they have one CONVERT • Preview your document as YAML, CSV, TOML or XML, each with a plain statement of what that format cannot carry DOCUMENT ACTIONS • Beautify, minify, sort keys, auto-fix • Escape and unescape a JSON string literal • Copy in, copy out, share, and a statistics breakdown • Undo and redo everything, with one history per document shared by every view GETTING JSON IN • Open files from iCloud Drive and Files, with proper open, save and rename • Start a document from the clipboard or from a URL. URL requests are a GET with your own headers, and the last ten are remembered; header values are stored in the keychain, not in plain preferences • A share extension accepts JSON from any app • JSON5 files open too, normalized to JSON with a banner saying what that cost • Imports are named after where they came from, like mydomain.com-users.json BUILT RIGHT • Native SwiftUI for iPhone and iPad, with full keyboard support • Light or dark, or pinned to whichever you prefer • A hand-written parser that preserves key order and keeps number literals exactly as written — no precision lost on a round trip • Works entirely offline. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no data leaves your device SMART JSON PRO The app is free, and every feature computes and shows you its result for free. Pro is for keeping that result: • Extract JSONPath matches to a new document, plus query history and saved queries • Text diff, jump between changes, copy as a patch, choose the array identity field • Save, share or open a conversion to YAML, CSV, TOML or XML --- Terms of Use: https://mygems.app/term Privacy Policy: https://mygems.app/privacy

Screenshots

Shipy4 screens
JSON Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JSON Editor at none against Shipy's 4. JSON Editor also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Shipy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. JSON Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shipy ships an update fortnightly, JSON Editor every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Shipy versus JSON Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShipyJSON Editor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperBartlomiej Zabicki Mobile DeveloperHue Nguyen

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Shipy

Subscriptions2
  • Shipy Pro$4.991 Month
  • Shipy Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • 10 Research Credits$1.99
  • 25 Research Credits$3.99
None

JSON Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shipy free?
Shipy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JSON Editor free?
JSON Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shipy or JSON Editor have ads?
Neither Shipy nor JSON Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shipy or JSON Editor?
Shipy ships an update fortnightly, and JSON Editor every 6 days. Most recently, Shipy was updated on November 9, 2026 and JSON Editor on November 10, 2026.

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