Pocket VHDL vs Nomad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket VHDL
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Pocket VHDL is an offline VHDL code editor for iPhone and iPad. Open, edit, and save .vhd and .vhdl documents through the Files interface. Syntax highlighting distinguishes keywords, types, strings, numbers, and comments, while document-aware completion helps you reuse declarations from the source you are editing. Features ⢠Create, open, edit, and save .vhd and .vhdl documents ⢠Highlight VHDL keywords, types, strings, numbers, and comments ⢠Complete signals, variables, constants, types, and VHDL language items ⢠Find, move between results, replace, and replace all ⢠Show line numbers and go directly to a line ⢠Navigate entities, architectures, processes, and declarations in the symbol outline ⢠Use automatic indentation and paired brackets or quotes ⢠Access a mobile coding toolbar and hardware keyboard shortcuts ⢠Adjust font size, tab width, and editing behavior ⢠Work in portrait or landscape on iPhone and iPad Pocket VHDL requires no account and includes no advertising or user tracking. Document contents are not sent to a developer-operated server. The current version focuses on code editing and does not compile or simulate VHDL.
Nomad
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Your work lives on your own machines. Nomad lets you reach it from your phone ā and keeps it running while you are away. Start something on your Mac, your Linux box, your NAS or a cloud server. Lock the screen, get on a train, change networks: the session stays alive on the machine, not on the phone. Open the app again and you are exactly where you left off. WORK WITH AI CODING AGENTS Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes and others run on your computer, signed in with your own accounts and keys. Nomad turns them into a chat you can follow from anywhere. ⢠Send a photo, a screenshot or a video with your prompt ⢠Tap a file path in a reply to open the file ⢠Queue the next instruction, approve a permission request, pause or cancel a turn ⢠Put several agents in one conversation and @mention whoever takes the next task REACH THE WHOLE MACHINE, NOT JUST THE CHAT When an agent finishes a change you still have to restart the service, read the log, check the port, look at the screen and pull the file down. That is all here too. ⢠A real SSH terminal, with a customisable key bar and hardware-keyboard support ⢠Files over SFTP and SMB: browse, transfer, preview, edit ⢠A remote desktop over VNC, with trackpad or direct pointer and Retina scaling ⢠Port forwarding, ping, traceroute, LAN scan, and live CPU, memory and disk YOUR MACHINES, YOUR KEYS Passwords and private keys stay in the iOS Keychain and never leave the device. Nomad connects straight to your hosts over SSH ā nothing in between, no server of ours in the path. Terminal output, chat content, commands and file contents are never collected. Signing in with Apple, Google, or GitHub is optional and syncs only non-secret settings between your own devices. Nomad needs a computer to connect to: a Mac, a Linux server, a NAS or a cloud VM you can reach over SSH.
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Verdict
Pocket VHDL and Nomad are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Pocket VHDL | Nomad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ki youn ryu | Yong Guo |
In-app purchases
Pocket VHDL
No in-app purchases
Nomad
No in-app purchases









