BentoTerm vs CodePad+ Code Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
BentoTerm
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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.
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 โข Syntax coloring for common programming languages โข Line numbers, word wrap, font size controls, and light or dark appearance โข Smart indentation, paired brackets and quotes, line comments, and per-tab undo FIND AND FORMAT โข Find and replace with case-sensitive, whole-word, and regular-expression options โข Built-in JSON and XML formatting โข Encoding and line-ending controls KEEP YOUR WORK SAFE โข Open and save documents through Files โข Local recovery of open tabs and unsaved edits โข 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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | BentoTerm | CodePad+ Code Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chi On Ho | Abdulrhman Alhoshani |
In-app purchases
BentoTerm
No in-app purchases
CodePad+ Code Editor
No in-app purchases
Questions
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