Coding Keyboard vs CookieZap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Coding Keyboard
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Coding Keyboard is an iOS keyboard laid out the way a desktop keyboard is laid out. In landscape and on iPad, the top four rows are identical to a full-size ANSI keyboard, key for key: backtick left of the 1, brackets right of the P, backslash above return, caps lock where caps lock goes. If you type on a desktop keyboard, you already know this layout. Why The stock iPhone keyboard hides the braces, square brackets, backslash, pipe, backtick and tilde behind two levels of page switching, and has no Tab key at all. iPad fares better, but only on the largest screens โ on an 11-inch iPad the system keyboard has no number row, no brackets, no backslash, and no arrow keys either. That is fine for prose and miserable for code, SSH sessions, and config files. This one puts them all on the first layer. Every key prints its shifted value, so ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) and the braces, pipe, tilde, underscore, plus, colon, quote, question mark and angle brackets are all one modifier away. Terminal mode A terminal does not receive key events โ the PTY sees a byte stream. Terminal mode sends the bytes a real keyboard would have produced, so a shell cannot tell the difference. It adds esc, ctrl and opt keys and a full set of cursor keys, and rewires the rest. Return sends CR rather than a newline. Ctrl plus a letter sends the C0 byte, so Ctrl-C is 0x03, Ctrl-D is 0x04, Ctrl-R is 0x12. Option prefixes with ESC, the way Meta is spelled everywhere. The arrow and Home/End keys send their ANSI escape sequences. Ctrl and opt latch like Shift โ tap, hold, or double-tap to lock โ and stack with it and with each other. This works wherever the host app forwards inserted text to its terminal. The app includes an echo terminal โ a real VT100 emulator with no shell behind it โ so you can see exactly what each key sends before you rely on it anywhere else. Turn it on with the term key in landscape, or by long-pressing Tab in portrait. Portrait A compact 10 by 6 layout for thumbs. The number row is always visible, and Tab and the cursor keys sit in the top row. The shift key Three states, matching a physical keyboard more closely than iOS does. Tap โ shifts the next character. Double tap โ locks until you press shift again. Press and hold โ shifts while held. Shift engages on finger-down rather than on lift, so holding shift with one thumb and typing with the other works the way it does on a real keyboard: the first keystroke is already capitalized. Where it works Anywhere iOS shows a keyboard. Terminal clients, git clients, editors, note apps, browsers, chat windows, search fields. Privacy The keyboard does not request Full Access. Without it, iOS grants a keyboard extension no network capability at all โ it cannot send keystrokes anywhere because it cannot send anything anywhere. That is enforced by the operating system, not promised in a policy. No data is collected. The keyboard extension has no analytics, no crash reporting, and no third-party SDKs. The source is on GitHub under the MIT license. What it doesn't do No autocorrect, predictive text, or swipe typing. No emoji key โ the globe key switches back to your usual keyboard. No haptic feedback. iOS only permits it with Full Access, which this keyboard does not request. US ASCII layout only. Setup Settings, then General, Keyboard, Keyboards, Add New Keyboard, Coding Keyboard. Then long-press the globe key on any keyboard to switch to it.
CookieZap
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Tired of clicking "Accept" just to make cookie popups go away? CookieZap does it for you automatically. CookieZap is a Safari extension that detects cookie consent popups and clicks "Reject" or "Necessary Only" buttons on your behalf. Unlike other tools that just hide banners with CSS, CookieZap actually rejects cookies, giving you real privacy protection. SMART AUTO-REJECT CookieZap intelligently finds and clicks "Reject All", "Decline", or "Necessary Only" buttons on cookie consent popups. It works with all major consent management platforms including OneTrust, Cookiebot, Quantcast, and dozens more. THREE BLOCKING MODES - Smart Reject: Finds and clicks reject buttons automatically - Hide Only: Hides popups with CSS without interacting - Block All: Blocks cookie-related network requests entirely REAL-TIME DASHBOARD See exactly how many popups you have zapped. Track today's count, total blocked, and success rate. Watch your numbers grow as you browse. WHITELIST CONTROL Need to see cookie popups on a specific site? Add it to your whitelist and CookieZap will skip it. SAFARI TOOLBAR POPUP Quickly check protection status, pause blocking, or whitelist the current site right from Safari's toolbar. ZERO CONFIGURATION Install the extension, enable it in Safari settings, and you are done. No accounts, no sign-ups, no complicated setup. CookieZap works immediately. PRIVACY FIRST CookieZap runs entirely on your device. No data is collected, no servers are contacted, no tracking. Your browsing stays private. One-time purchase. No subscription. No ads. No data collection. Just clean, uninterrupted browsing.
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Verdict
Coding Keyboard and CookieZap are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Coding Keyboard | CookieZap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi On Ho | ่ดบ ๅจ |
In-app purchases
Coding Keyboard
No in-app purchases
CookieZap
No in-app purchases
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