Comparison

Regex Tester Pattern Editor vs OSH

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Regex Tester Pattern Editor

Test regular expressions live on your device. See matches highlight character by character as you type, with instant feedback on invalid patterns. Preview find-and-replace operations and access a built-in cheatsheet for tokens and templates.

Highlights
  • Live regex matching as you type
  • Capture group inspection
  • Find and replace preview
  • Case-insensitive, multiline modes
  • 19 ready-made patterns
  • Built-in syntax cheatsheet
  • Save and reload patterns
Features
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Test a regular expression on your iPhone and see every match light up the moment you type it. Paste your text, write your pattern, and watch matches highlight character by character — no desktop, no compile step, no guessing. Most regex help on a phone is a static article you read. Regex Tester is a working engine: it runs your pattern with Foundation's NSRegularExpression (the same ICU syntax iOS itself uses), so what you see here is exactly what your app, script, or config will do. Invalid pattern? You get a plain-English reason instead of a cryptic engine dump. WHAT YOU GET - See every match highlighted inside your own test text, updating live as you type - Know exactly what each capture group grabbed — numbered and named, with character ranges - Preview a find-and-replace before you commit it, using $1 / $2 templates on your real text - Flip case-insensitive, multiline, dot-all and ignore-whitespace modes with one tap and watch results change - Start from 19 ready-made patterns for email, URL, IPv4, phone, hex color, ISO date, UUID, JWT and more — searchable and filtered by Validation, Extraction, Web and Format - Look up any token without leaving the app: character classes, anchors, quantifiers, groups, lookaround and replacement templates in a built-in cheatsheet - Bookmark the patterns you keep reusing with their test text and flags, and reload any of them in one tap PERFECT FOR - Developers who need to sanity-check a pattern away from their machine - Data and log wranglers pulling IDs, dates or fields out of messy text - Students and self-taught coders learning regex by seeing it behave, not by reading about it - Anyone writing validation rules for forms, imports or search filters WHY NOT JUST USE A WEBSITE? Online regex testers need a connection, and they want you to paste your text into someone else's server — a hard no when that text is a customer export, a log dump, or anything under NDA. This runs entirely on-device, works on a plane or in a basement, and keeps a keyboard-friendly phone layout instead of a desktop page squeezed onto a small screen. PRIVACY Every pattern, test string and result is processed on your device and stored on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking, no upload — there is no server to send anything to. FULL ACCESS Live matching, the pattern library and the basics of the syntax reference are free to use. Full Access unlocks capture-group inspection with ranges, the live replace-with-template preview, the complete cheatsheet (quantifiers, groups, lookaround, replacement templates and engine notes), and saved patterns. Choose the plan that fits: weekly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime unlock that never renews. Open the Test tab, paste the text that is giving you trouble, and write the pattern that fixes it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

About

OSH

Features
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OSH turns your iPhone into a hardware-backed approver for zero-trust SSH access. Instead of long-lived SSH keys scattered across laptops, your team's gateway issues short-lived SSH certificates only after a human approves each request. OSH is where that approval happens — on a device you carry, protected by Face ID and the Secure Enclave. HOW IT WORKS • Enroll your device by scanning the gateway's QR code. • When someone requests SSH access, OSH shows you who, what, and where. • Approve or deny with Face ID. Your approval is signed by a key that lives only in the Secure Enclave. • The gateway issues a short-lived certificate — no standing keys, no shared secrets. WHY IT'S SECURE • The signing key is generated inside the Secure Enclave and is non-exportable — it can never leave your iPhone. • Every approval requires biometric authentication. • OSH connects only to the gateway you configure. It has no analytics, no trackers, no ads, and no third-party SDKs. FOR TEAMS • Role-aware: signers, admins, and root see the controls appropriate to them. • Review access rules, approval history, and gateway logs from the app. OSH requires a compatible zero-trust SSH gateway to connect to. If your organization doesn't run one yet, contact us at ad@openlay.com.

Screenshots

Regex Tester Pattern Editor4 screens
OSH4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OSH at none against Regex Tester Pattern Editor's 3. OSH also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Regex Tester Pattern Editor's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Regex Tester Pattern Editor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. OSH asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Regex Tester Pattern Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, OSH weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Regex Tester Pattern Editor versus OSH: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRegex Tester Pattern EditorOSH
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamOpen layer technologies L.L.C S.O.C

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Regex Tester Pattern Editor

Subscriptions2
  • Syntax Cheatsheet Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Replace Preview Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Expression Validator Forever$29.99
None

OSH

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Regex Tester Pattern Editor free?
Regex Tester Pattern Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OSH free?
OSH is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Regex Tester Pattern Editor or OSH have ads?
Neither Regex Tester Pattern Editor nor OSH shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Regex Tester Pattern Editor or OSH?
Regex Tester Pattern Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, and OSH weekly. Most recently, Regex Tester Pattern Editor was updated on October 31, 2026 and OSH on November 5, 2026.

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