Comparison

Muqun vs 42 Editor

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

Head to head
About

Muqun

Control and interact with terminal sessions on your computer from your iPhone. Follow live output, grant permissions to coding agents, and manage workspaces seamlessly. Offers a real terminal experience with customizable themes and multiple language support.

Highlights
  • Real terminal grid with full-color output
  • On-screen keyboard for precise input
  • Agent permission granting and interaction
  • Syntax highlighting and image previews
  • Customizable themes and language support
  • Offline demo mode
Features
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Keep your coding work within reach. Muqun brings your connected machines, AI coding assistants and terminals to your iPhone and iPad, so you can check what is happening and decide what comes next. A HOME FOR YOUR WORK Choose Classic or Editorial Home. Return to recent sessions, switch Gateways and start your next task from one place. WORK WITH OPENCODE Follow conversations and tool activity in a dedicated workbench. Move between projects and sessions, inspect task lists and code changes, and choose the models and modes offered by your connected setup. STAY IN CONTROL Queue a follow-up, steer an ongoing conversation or remove a pending message. Review AI assistant permission requests and answer them from the app. KEEP YOUR TERMINALS CLOSE Use remote terminals, connect to saved SSH hosts and reach a Gateway through an SSH tunnel. Keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys help with command-line work on a touch screen. MAKE IT YOURS Browse and preview themes, build a personal theme library and adjust artwork and visual effects. Choose an app icon and fonts to suit your workspace. FILES & CODE CHANGES Browse files, attach files and images to tasks, and inspect staged and unstaged Git changes without losing your place. Muqun connects to tools running on your own machines. Gateway features require a compatible Muqun Gateway and backend; the OpenCode workbench requires a supported OpenCode setup. SSH access requires a reachable SSH host.

About

42 Editor

Features
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42 Editor is a code and text editor for iPhone and iPad. It opens the files you already have, in the Files app, iCloud Drive, Working Copy, Dropbox or any other file provider, and saves your changes back to the same file. There is nothing to sign in to and nothing is uploaded. Sometimes the file that needs fixing is a config file, a script or a spreadsheet export, and the only device to hand is a phone. 42 Editor is made for those moments. EDIT IN PLACE • Open a file or a whole folder from any provider in the Files app. Your changes go back to the original. • Opened folders are remembered: create, rename, duplicate and delete files and folders inside them. • Recent files reopen with one tap. • Open in 42 Editor from the Files app and the share sheet. SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING FOR 29 LANGUAGES Python, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Dart, Lua, R, JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, XML, HTML, CSS, Markdown, Shell, SQL, Makefile and Dockerfile, in light and dark. Line numbers with the current line marked, and long lines that wrap or scroll sideways. A KEYBOARD ROW FOR CODE Tab and outdent, a comment toggle, cursor keys, undo and redo, and the brackets and symbols the iOS keyboard hides. Auto-indent, optional closing of brackets and quotes, and tabs or spaces at 2, 4 or 8 wide. FIND, REPLACE AND FORMAT • Find and Replace, Go to Line, toggle comment, and indent or outdent a selection. • Format or minify JSON, keeping the order of the keys. • Markdown and HTML preview, a tap away. CSV AND TSV AS A TABLE A grid with a pinned header row. Edit cell by cell; add, duplicate or delete rows and columns; sort, filter and undo. The raw text is one tap away. CAREFUL SAVING 42 Editor keeps each file's text encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 or Windows-1252), its line endings and its final newline. It autosaves two seconds after you stop typing, and if another app changed the file in the meantime it stops and asks which version to keep. iPHONE AND iPAD System, light or dark appearance, font size from 9 to 32 pt, and ⌘S to save on a hardware keyboard. PRIVATE No account, no ads and no analytics. Your files stay on your device and in the providers you choose. 42 Editor is an editor, not a place to run code: it doesn't compile or run anything.

Screenshots

Muqun4 screens
42 Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 42 Editor at Free against Muqun's $9.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

42 Editor is free to download; Muqun costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 7 level
Muqun versus 42 Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuqun42 Editor
Price$9.99Free — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPuffinStudioMohammed Shehada

In-app purchases

None

Muqun

No in-app purchases

None

42 Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Muqun free?
Muqun costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 42 Editor free?
42 Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Muqun or 42 Editor have ads?
Neither Muqun nor 42 Editor shows ads.

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