TokenMax vs SymPy Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SymPy Editor
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Edit mathematics the way you read it. SymPy editor draws your expression as a real formula, and every piece of it responds to touch: tap a term to select it, type over it, pull it apart, or apply any function from SymPy, the Python computer algebra system that powers it all. The whole CAS runs on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking, no network: CPython and SymPy are packaged inside the app, everything you type stays on your device, and it all works in airplane mode. EDIT FORMULAS, NOT CODE • Tap any sub-expression (a term, an exponent, a matrix entry) and edit it in place • Type over a selection, or place a caret between terms and insert • Tap an operator to change it: turn + into a product, make an equation, or delete it • Unwrap (cos θ → θ), isolate, delete, copy and paste sub-expressions • The SymPy source line under the formula follows it, and the formula follows the line: edit whichever you prefer ALL OF SYMPY, ONE TAP AWAY • Transform menu: simplify, expand, factor, partial fractions, trig rewriting and more • A menu per type: matrices offer determinant, inverse and transpose; integrals, sums, derivatives and limits offer evaluation; equations swap sides or collect everything on the left • A search box over every SymPy function, asking for the parameters each one needs • An "unevaluated" switch builds Integral(f, x) or Determinant(M) symbolically instead of computing it • A Symbols panel for assumptions (positive, real, integer…) and matrix symbols with their shapes EVERY STEP IS REMEMBERED • The history shows each step and what changed: in red what went, in green what came • Play it as a slideshow, at the speed you choose • Save it as a self-contained web page that works offline, or as a Python script that rebuilds every step with SymPy • Keep several sessions, each with its own history, all on your device FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND SCIENTISTS Complete the square in front of a class, evaluate limits and integrals, manipulate matrices and N-dimensional arrays, and export the derivation when it is done. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE BSD 3-Clause, no strings attached. Worked derivations, the source code and a browser version are at https://upabjojr.github.io/sympy-editor/ — and the same editor runs in Jupyter notebooks (pip install sympy-editor).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SymPy Editor at 15.1 against TokenMax's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TokenMax | SymPy Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 960 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zackary McKibbon | Francesco Bonazzi |
In-app purchases
TokenMax
No in-app purchases
SymPy Editor
No in-app purchases
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