D1Explorer vs CodeMote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
D1Explorer
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D1Explorer is a native Cloudflare D1 client for iPhone and iPad that backs up before it writes. Browse, query and edit your databases, with cost projection and Time Travel restore. FREE TO DOWNLOAD Download D1Explorer free and connect unlimited Cloudflare D1 databases. Browse tables, run SELECT queries, inspect schema and preview BLOB/JSON cells. No account, no trial timer, no read limits. Unlock D1Explorer Pro with a one-time in-app purchase for every write feature: row inserts, updates and deletes, inline cell editing, table and column changes, and DML/DDL in the query editor. Pro also unlocks the Recovery Center, the Query Notebook, and Cost & Budget's projections and Advisor. Pay once, no subscription, and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. KEY FEATURES โข Editable Data Grid โ Tap a cell to edit it, add rows, then discard or commit. Pending edits are shown as the SQL they will run before anything runs, and a remote database asks once more before it is written to. โข Recovery Center (Pro) โ Back up before you write. "Export Snapshot" runs Cloudflare's official export, a .sql dump preserving BLOBs byte-for-byte. Time Travel rolls a D1 database back to any point in its retention window, backing up first. โข Cost & Budget โ Know what a database costs before the invoice arrives. Month-to-date spend on the three axes D1 bills, rows read, rows written and stored bytes, with the billable part separated. Free, including the sidebar figure on each database. Pro adds a month-end projection, a monthly budget, and an Advisor that ranks the query shapes reading the most rows, suggests a fix where the numbers support one, and copies out as Markdown. โข Draft SQL & Query Editor โ Describe what you want, as in "active pro users, newest first", and Apple Intelligence turns it into a SELECT you can read and edit before you run it. Or write SQL by hand. Free. โข Sign in with Cloudflare โ Connect without making an API token. Approve D1Explorer once on Cloudflare's own screen, decide there whether it gets write access and usage analytics, and withdraw it whenever you like. Free. โข Connection Doctor โ Ask a connection what it can actually do. It checks the token, this database, and the permissions behind editing, exporting, restoring and cost analytics, then names the one you are missing instead of an HTTP status. Free. โข iCloud Sync โ Connections follow you between your devices. Only what identifies a database travels; credentials sync separately through end-to-end encrypted iCloud Keychain. โข Query Notebook (Pro) โ Never lose the query that fixed production. Save named snippets and keep a per-connection history of everything you've run, failures included, each labelled READ or WRITE. โข Performance Insights โ Execution time and rows read per statement, plus which D1 datacenter answered and whether a replica served it. SECURITY FIRST Your Cloudflare credentials live only in the iOS Keychain, pasted token or sign-in grant alike: encrypted by the OS, never in plain text, never sent to third parties. D1Explorer talks straight to Cloudflare, with no intermediary servers. PRIVACY BY DESIGN D1Explorer collects no analytics, no telemetry, and no user data of its own. Cost & Budget and the Advisor read your usage from Cloudflare with your own credentials and send it nowhere else; the Advisor's suggestions are local arithmetic, not a language model. Draft SQL is the one feature that uses a language model, and it is Apple's on-device one: it receives your question and this database's table and column names, never a value from any row, and nothing is uploaded. The Query Notebook records SQL as you typed it, so it can contain literals from your data: clear its history or turn recording off in Settings. Local SQLite files and Wrangler project import are Mac features and are not part of the iPhone and iPad app.
CodeMote
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CodeMote turns your iPhone and iPad into a real connection to your development machine. Pair in seconds, then run your terminals, manage git, and drive AI coding agents - from anywhere. This isn't a stripped-down mobile editor. CodeMote connects to the full workstation you already have set up, so you get your real environment, your real tools, and your real projects in your pocket. Works with your existing VS Code setup. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Live terminals - open real shells on your machine, with sessions that survive backgrounding and reconnect instantly. - Git, built in - status, diff, commit, push, branches and full history, with zero credentials stored on your phone. - AI coding on the go - kick off and steer AI coding agents while you are away from your desk. - Multiple workspaces - jump between projects and keep long-running tasks alive in the background. - Saved commands - one tap to run the commands you use most. - Persistent sessions - start something on your phone, pick it up on your desktop. BUILT FOR DEVELOPERS - Fast, secure pairing - connect your phone to your machine in seconds. - Your code never leaves your computer - CodeMote is a remote control, not a copy. - Terminal-first, keyboard-friendly, and dark by default - designed for the way you actually work. WHY CODEMOTE Other remote-coding apps give you a chat box bolted onto an AI agent. CodeMote gives you the whole workstation - terminal, git, and AI together - so you can do real work, not just send prompts. Ship a fix from the sofa. Restart a build from the train. Review a diff over coffee. Your dev machine is now wherever you are. Download CodeMote and code from anywhere. A subscription is required to use CodeMote. Terms of Service: https://codemote.caste.work/tos Privacy Policy: https://codemote.caste.work/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CodeMote at none against D1Explorer's 1. CodeMote also leads on chart position (#196 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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. D1Explorer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeMote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | D1Explorer | CodeMote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Best chart rank | โ | #196 โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magenta Creations | Salvatore Castellitti |
In-app purchases
D1Explorer
- D1Explorer Pro$5.99
CodeMote
No in-app purchases









