Comparison

Punk Code vs SkillForge

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

Head to head
About

Punk Code

Features
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Your laptop is the mainframe. Your phone is the terminal. PUNK lets you control Claude Code sessions from your iPhone, wherever you are. Your agents run locally on your machine — PUNK is how you reach them. LOCK SCREEN APPROVALS Approve or deny tool calls without unlocking your phone. VOICE INPUT Dictate prompts 4x faster than typing. MULTI-DEVICE Run multiple Claude Code instances in parallel and manage them all from one place. EXECUTION MODES Switch between Plan, Ask, Auto, and Dangerous modes on the fly. SKILLS & MCPs Access slash commands, MCP tools, and custom skills from your phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No persistent data storage. Relay-only architecture. No open ports required. Works on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Currently in free beta via TestFlight.

About

SkillForge

Discover and manage open-source AI agent skills for coding assistants. Browse by profession or category, with powerful search and filtering. View skill details, author information, and trust metrics before use. Works offline and prioritizes user privacy.

Highlights
  • Discover open-source AI agent skills
  • Browse by profession and category
  • Powerful keyword search and ranking
  • Filter skills by development stage
  • View author, stars, and license
  • Download SKILL.md files
  • Connect GitHub account for real-time catalog
Features
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SkillForge is a native, privacy-first app for discovering and managing open-source Agent Skills — reusable SKILL.md building blocks for AI coding agents. Updated for iOS 27.0 and macOS 27.0. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and Gemini CLI. BROWSE BY PROFESSION â€ĸ Jump straight to skills for frontend, backend, mobile, data, design, product, marketing, writing, security, legal, finance, office work and more. â€ĸ Or browse by category: documents, development, creative, enterprise and productivity. POWERFUL SEARCH & RANKING â€ĸ Keyword search with smart ranking by relevance and repository popularity — useful skills from trusted sources surface first. â€ĸ When your local catalog has no match, results are augmented live from GitHub. FIND THE RIGHT SKILL, AND TRUST IT â€ĸ Filter by development stage — Define, Plan, Build, Verify, Review, Ship — so you find skills by where you are in the work, not just what they're about. â€ĸ Skill pages surface the author's own Red Flags and Verification checklists up front, quoted exactly as written, so you can judge a skill before you run it. â€ĸ Maturity badges appear only when the source repository declares one. We never invent a rating. COMPLETE SKILL DETAILS â€ĸ Read the author, source repository, stars, license, last-updated date and the full SKILL.md right inside the app — no need to leave. â€ĸ Download the SKILL.md file with one tap, or open the original repo on GitHub. CONNECT YOUR OWN GITHUB ACCOUNT â€ĸ Sign in via device authorization or paste a personal access token to fetch the freshest, fullest skill catalog in real time using your own higher rate limit. WORKS OFFLINE â€ĸ The catalog and the skills you open are cached on-device, so SkillForge keeps working when GitHub is slow or unreachable. AI USAGE AT A GLANCE â€ĸ Track your AI coding assistant plan and usage; sync it through your private iCloud to view remaining and total quota on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. CUSTOM SOURCES â€ĸ Add any public SKILL.md by pasting its raw URL — it's fetched and classified on-device. PRIVACY-FIRST, NO SERVER OF OUR OWN â€ĸ The app runs no backend and doesn't track you. Public data comes from GitHub; favorites, searches and tokens stay on your device or in your private iCloud / Keychain. English / æ—ĨæœŦčĒž / 한ęĩ­ė–´ / įŽ€äŊ“中文 / įšéĢ”ä¸­æ–‡ ¡ Light & Dark ¡ Dynamic Type & VoiceOver supported.

Screenshots

Punk Code4 screens
SkillForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Punk Code at none against SkillForge's 1. Punk Code also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). SkillForge's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. SkillForge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Punk Code asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ¡ 5 level
Punk Code versus SkillForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPunk CodeSkillForge
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperItgel GanboldįŒŽæ…§ 陈

In-app purchases

None

Punk Code

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SkillForge

One-time1
  • SkillForge Pro$1.99

Questions

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

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