Comparison

Crest Browser vs Kode

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

Head to head
About

Crest Browser

Organize your online life with distinct browsing contexts for work, personal use, and private browsing. Each context has its own tabs, history, and data, ensuring a clean separation of your digital activities.

Highlights
  • Isolated browsing contexts (Spaces)
  • Separate tabs, history, and cookies per Space
  • Customizable Space identity
  • Focused sidebar for tabs and history
  • Peek for temporary link previews
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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Work, personal life, and everything between deserve their own Space. Crest is a native browser for iPhone and iPad that keeps your accounts separate, your tabs organized, and your browsing distinctly yours. KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTS SEPARATE Each Space has its own tabs, cookies, website data, history, passwords, and site permissions. Stay signed in to different accounts on the same website. Switch from work to personal browsing without carrying the wrong session with you. GIVE EVERY TAB A PLACE Pin the sites you use every day. Save pages in folders. Keep today's tabs close and completed work in the archive. Select and move tabs, folders, and Split View groups together. On iPhone, bring in the sidebar with a gesture; on iPad, keep it beside your page. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Start from Winter, Lion, or another template in Crest Studio, then choose a color for each part of the crest and the sidebar. Choose a crest, emoji, monogram, or symbol. Appearance settings adjust the window border, sidebar material, tab corners, borders, and default page zoom. KEEP RELATED PAGES TOGETHER Group two to four pages in Split View. On iPad, browse them side by side and resize the columns. On iPhone, swipe across the compact toolbar to move between pages in the group. Peek lets you check supported links without losing your place, then keep the page as a tab when you need it. TOOLS FOR EVERYDAY BROWSING Choose one default search for every Space and another for Private Browsing, or pick one for a single Space. Search from a new tab to find the pages and tabs you use most. Translate webpages on device with Apple's Translation framework. Read supported articles in Reader, find text on a page, adjust zoom, share links, and export pages. Content blocking and site permissions give you control over each Space. Language availability varies, and translation may require a language download. PRIVATE WHEN YOU NEED IT Private Browsing uses temporary website storage. Private tabs stay out of saved history, restoration, archive, and sync. Crest does not run an advertising SDK, collect browsing analytics, or require a Crest account. PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE Optional iCloud sync keeps supported Space and tab organization available across your Apple devices through your private iCloud database. Crest is also available for Mac. Crest is free and open source, built with Apple's WebKit. Requires iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1 or later. Some website features and integrations vary by device.

About

Kode

Features
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Kode shows the 6-digit login codes for two-factor login on services that ask you to use an “authenticator app”. Pay once. No ads. No subscription and no account. SCAN AND YOU'RE SET • Scan the QR code the website shows – or pick a screenshot of it • Type in the key yourself if you can't scan • Tap a code to copy it – and paste it on your Mac with Universal Clipboard • The iPhone clipboard is cleared after 60 seconds CLEAR AND CALM • Big, clear digits and a countdown ring • Search, drag to reorder, and pin the ones you use most SECURE • Secret keys are stored only in the iPhone's Keychain – never in a database or on a server • Locked with Face ID, and codes are hidden in the app switcher • No network calls, no tracking, no account COMES WITH YOU • iCloud Keychain takes your codes to a new iPhone (you can turn it off) • Import all accounts at once from Google Authenticator, 2FAS, Aegis or 1Password • Encrypted, password-protected backup file in an open, documented format – so you're never locked in In English, Danish, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian and Brazilian Portuguese. PAY ONCE. THAT'S IT. Kode costs a small one-time price: every feature and every future update, with no ads and no subscription. The extra app icons and a silly little game are included for everyone.

Screenshots

Crest Browser4 screens
Kode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Crest Browser at Free against Kode's $1.99. Kode's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Crest Browser is free to download; Kode costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crest Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, Kode every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Crest Browser versus Kode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrest BrowserKode
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating3.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPaul DavisCommanigy

In-app purchases

None

Crest Browser

No in-app purchases

None

Kode

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crest Browser free?
Crest Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kode free?
Kode costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crest Browser or Kode have ads?
Neither Crest Browser nor Kode shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crest Browser or Kode?
Crest Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, and Kode every 4 days. Most recently, Crest Browser was updated on October 31, 2026 and Kode on November 1, 2026.

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