PyGrinder vs TokenMax
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PyGrinder
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AI checks your Python code like a real FAANG interviewer. 50 tasks, 20-minute timer, detailed review. One purchase. No subscriptions. Practice makes perfect — when you get instant, specific feedback on every solution. PyGrinder simulates the pressure of a real coding interview: strict timer, AI evaluation, and a verdict you can trust. WHY 50 PROBLEMS MATTER: Most interview prep apps give you 10-15 tasks. You memorize them in a weekend and run out. With 50 hand-picked Python problems — Easy to Hard, across every major topic — you build real algorithmic thinking, not muscle memory. WHAT YOU GET: • AI code review — analyzes structure, complexity, and patterns (not just "correct" or "wrong") • 50 Python problems: Easy to Hard, no filler tasks • 20-minute timer — real interview pressure • Daily Challenge — one new task every day • Detailed checklist: AI answers 5 specific questions about your solution • Big O comparison: your complexity vs optimal • Side-by-side code view with reference solution • Actionable fix plan: what to change and why • Filter by difficulty and topic (Arrays, Two Pointers, DP, Stack, Graphs, Heap...) HOW IT WORKS: 1. Pick a problem or take the Daily Challenge 2. Write Python code in the built-in editor 3. Submit under the 20-minute timer 4. Get your verdict: PASS or FAIL with score (1-10) 5. See the exact line with the issue 6. Unlock full review, complexity analysis, and fix plan PERFECT FOR: • Junior Python developers preparing for technical screens • CS students applying to internships • Self-taught programmers who need structured practice • Anyone improving algorithmic thinking TOPICS: Arrays & Hashing, Two Pointers, Sliding Window, Stack, Binary Search, Linked List, Heap, Dynamic Programming, BFS & Graphs, Binary Tree, Design, Math, Bit Manipulation One purchase unlocks everything. No subscriptions. No accounts. Just code, get reviewed, improve. Download PyGrinder and walk into your interview ready.
TokenMax
Learn AI, computer science, and Python with comprehensive courses and a real Python environment. Features an AI tutor, sandboxed terminal, and SSH client, all running offline on your device. Processes documents and images locally for enhanced privacy.
- 14 university-level computer science courses
- Embedded Python 3.13 with auto-graded problem sets
- Sandboxed terminal with SSH client
- On-device AI tutor and language model
- Local PDF, DOCX, and TXT processing
- Offline functionality
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TokenMax is an AI learning lab for your iPhone, built by Vellora AI: a full computer-science curriculum, a real Python environment with auto-graded problem sets, a sandboxed terminal, and a tutor powered by a language model that runs on the phone itself. No accounts, no servers, no telemetry. LEARN AI, CS & PYTHON — 14 FULL COURSES, OFFLINE - Sidebar → Courses bundles 14 university-level open-courseware classes, readable offline, including: • 6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning — transformers, attention, RLHF, generative AI • 6.5940 TinyML & Efficient Deep Learning — quantization, pruning, the methods behind on-device models • 6.0001 + 6.0002 Intro to CS and Data Science in Python • 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, 6.864 Advanced NLP • 18.06 Linear Algebra, 18.065 Matrix Methods, 18.05 Probability & Statistics • 6.006 + 6.046 Algorithms, 6.S081 Operating Systems, 6.824 Distributed Systems - Course materials from MIT OpenCourseWare, used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. TokenMax is free and is not affiliated with or endorsed by MIT. Lecture videos link out to ocw.mit.edu. A REAL PYTHON LAB IN YOUR POCKET - Embedded Python 3.13 — write code and run it without leaving the app. - Auto-graded problem sets check your work line by line, with results in seconds. - Built for learning: the interpreter runs only the bundled lessons and the code you type. It never downloads or executes code from the internet, and network access inside the Python sandbox is disabled. - "Python Tutor (OCW 6.0001)" persona — a Socratic tutor that asks leading questions, runs your code through Python before commenting, and refuses to just hand you the answer. TERMINAL & SSH - A real sandboxed shell with twenty-something built-ins (ls, cd, cat, head, tail, grep, find, mkdir, mv, cp, rm, touch, …) operating only on the app's own writable directories. - SSH client in pure Swift. Save hosts in Settings, connect with password or ED25519 / RSA private keys, host-key fingerprint pinning on first connect. - Per-conversation Plan / Execute mode lets the model drive the terminal. Plan mode allows read-only commands; Execute mode requires per-command approval for anything destructive. AN AI THAT NEVER PHONES HOME - A language model ships inside the app — start chatting on first launch, even in Airplane Mode. - Streaming responses, regenerate, edit and re-roll, copy, pin, folders, in-conversation search, export to PDF / Markdown / JSON, share extension. - Sees photos, hears your voice, reads PDFs. Vision-language models run natively on Apple Silicon via mlx-swift: Qwen2.5-VL 7B on iPhone 15 Pro / 16 Pro / 17 Pro, Qwen2-VL 2B on iPhone 13+. Attach a photo while a text-only model is active and TokenMax reads it on-device with OCR instead. - Drop a PDF, .docx, .md or .txt and ask questions about it — retrieval runs locally with Apple's NLEmbedding. - Web search with real source citations, only when you ask for it. - Slash commands: /summarize, /explain, /code, /tldr, /translate, /improve. PRIVACY YOU CAN AUDIT - Your work stays on your iPhone. The only network calls TokenMax can make are optional model downloads, web search you trigger, and SSH connections to servers you've added — and Settings → Privacy & Data lists every one of them: the host, what data leaves, and what triggers it. - Sealed mode hard-blocks all network traffic with one switch. - Versioned in-app Terms and Privacy Policy. REQUIREMENTS - iPhone 13 or newer recommended. Runs on iPad too. iPhone 15 Pro / 16 Pro / 17 Pro for the 7B vision model. - Falcon 3 1B ships pre-installed — no download needed to start. Larger open-weight models are optional downloads that always show their exact size first (Qwen 2-VL / 2.5-VL under Tongyi Qianwen License, Falcon 3 under TII Falcon-LLM License 2.0, Bonsai 8B under Apache 2.0). TokenMax is built by Vellora AI. We don't run a server. We can't read your work because it never reaches us.
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Verdict
PyGrinder and TokenMax are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | PyGrinder | TokenMax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 960 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Anton Sorokin | Zackary McKibbon |
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PyGrinder
No in-app purchases
TokenMax
No in-app purchases
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