Comparison

BentoTerm vs CodePad+ Code Editor

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

Head to head
About

BentoTerm

Features
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Your agents run for forty minutes at a time. Watching one is a waste of you โ€” so you run several, and the problem becomes keeping track of them all. Bento Term is a terminal built for exactly that. A WHOLE TEAM, ONE SCREEN Every agent gets a pane, tinted by what it's doing: blue is working, amber is waiting for you, green is done and you haven't looked yet. You read the room instead of visiting each one. Parallel mode tiles everything; Focus mode gives one pane the whole screen with the rest in a sidebar. SAY IT, DON'T TYPE IT Hold on a pane and talk. Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and Bento reads the screen, so file names and technical words come out right โ€” mixed Chinese/English included. Slide up to send, down to cancel. LEAVE THE DESK, NOT THE WORK Everything runs in tmux on your machine โ€” your Mac, a Linux server, or WSL โ€” over plain SSH, with nothing installed on the other end. Quit the app, close the laptop: nothing stops. Attach from iPhone or iPad mid-run and answer from wherever you are. EVERY DAY - The file tree of every pane's working directory. Tap a printed path and it opens with syntax highlighting, even at :42. PDFs and images too. - Panes move like windows: split, drag, drop โ€” every move is a real tmux move. - Pick a folder, pick an agent, and Bento opens the panes and starts them. No shell needed. - Ten agents recognized out of the box โ€” Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and more โ€” every profile editable, so a tool nobody has heard of yet is one profile away. BUILT LIKE A TERMINAL Native Swift, the same GPU renderer as Ghostty (libghostty), real tmux control mode (-CC). No accounts. Your terminal output never leaves your machines. Free and open source, Apache-2.0. Requires a machine you can ssh into with tmux installed. macOS, Linux and WSL all work.

About

CodePad+ Code Editor

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CodePad+ is a native text and code editor for iPhone and iPad. Keep several documents open in tabs, browse folders from Files, and work with a focused editor built for touch and hardware keyboards. EDIT COMFORTABLY โ€ข Syntax coloring for common programming languages โ€ข Line numbers, word wrap, font size controls, and light or dark appearance โ€ข Smart indentation, paired brackets and quotes, line comments, and per-tab undo FIND AND FORMAT โ€ข Find and replace with case-sensitive, whole-word, and regular-expression options โ€ข Built-in JSON and XML formatting โ€ข Encoding and line-ending controls KEEP YOUR WORK SAFE โ€ข Open and save documents through Files โ€ข Local recovery of open tabs and unsaved edits โ€ข Detection of changes made to a file outside the app CodePad+ does not require an account and contains no ads or analytics. Documents stay on your device or with the storage provider you select in Files. CodePad+ edits source code; it does not compile or execute it. Custom macOS shell-script formatters are not supported on iOS.

Screenshots

BentoTerm4 screens
CodePad+ Code Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

BentoTerm and CodePad+ Code Editor are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BentoTerm versus CodePad+ Code Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBentoTermCodePad+ Code Editor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size42 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChi On HoAbdulrhman Alhoshani

In-app purchases

None

BentoTerm

No in-app purchases

None

CodePad+ Code Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BentoTerm free?
BentoTerm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CodePad+ Code Editor free?
CodePad+ Code Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BentoTerm or CodePad+ Code Editor have ads?
Neither BentoTerm nor CodePad+ Code Editor shows ads.

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