PureCode vs NameTheory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PureCode
Transform your code into visually appealing images for sharing on social media, presentations, or portfolios. Customize themes, backgrounds, watermarks, and styling for a polished look.
- 5 syntax highlight themes
- 11 gradient backgrounds + transparent PNG
- Customizable watermark
- Supports 50+ programming languages
- Auto language detection
- High quality export
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PureCode turns your code into beautiful, shareable images — perfect for social media, presentations, and portfolios. Choose from 5 stunning themes including Xcode Dark, Dracula, Monokai, VS Code and GitHub Light. Pick one of 11 gradient backgrounds or export with a transparent PNG. Add a personal watermark, adjust font size, padding, and shadow to get the perfect look. FEATURES • 5 syntax highlight themes • 11 gradient backgrounds + transparent PNG • Watermark with 4 corner position options • 50+ languages — Swift, Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Kotlin and more • Auto language detection • High quality export • No ads. No watermarks. Ever.
NameTheory
This app assists developers and creators in brainstorming unique names and checking their availability across web domains and social media handles. It leverages AI to generate variations and offers domain alerts, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device processing.
- AI-powered name generation
- Web domain availability search
- Social media handle availability search
- Domain alerts
- On-device AI processing
- Private data storage
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NameTheory is a name generation and search tool for developers and creators. NameTheory uses AI to help you brainstorm name ideas and instantly looks up available web domains for those names and variations of them. All you have to do is add a few starter words that you like and NameTheory will suggest more words matching your theme and look up variations of all your words for available web domains across dozens of top-level domains like .com, .app, .ai and many more. Features: - Automatically searches available domains across hundreds of top-level domains for your names - Set up domain alerts to be notified if a domain becomes available - Uses AI to generates variations of your names and searches for their availability - Tries common "domain hacks" to find available names (getname.com, nameapp.com, getna.me, etc.) - Displays pricing for available domains - Searches App Store for similar names - Searches Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky, X/Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub for available handles - No AI subscription required, everything runs on your device using Apple's on-device AI - All your data is private and stored locally on your device or synced via your iCloud account
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PureCode at 17.6 against NameTheory's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PureCode against 5.0 for NameTheory. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PureCode | NameTheory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Arseny Kostyuk | Roshan Choxi |
Customer experience
PureCode
NameTheory
In-app purchases
PureCode
No in-app purchases
NameTheory
No in-app purchases
