JSON Master vs Wake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
JSON Master
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JSON Master is a fast, native JSON editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built around what you do with JSON all day: find a value, copy its path, copy a branch, and understand what a field really contains. The document is shown two ways โ as a tree and as highlighted source โ and both are the same file. The tree is for reading and restructuring, the source for fixing what does not parse. FIND YOUR WAY โข Command palette (โK): every command by name and a fuzzy jump to any node โข Breadcrumbs, plus back and forward after every jump โข Search over keys and values; matching branches open by themselves โข Full keyboard control on Mac and iPad READ โข A tree with type badges, item counts, indent guides and previews of collapsed objects โข Highlighted source that keeps working even when the file does not parse โข A broken file explains itself: the exact line and column, one tap away โข One-tap repair for almost-JSON: comments, trailing commas, single quotes โข Large files open in the background without freezing COPY โข Paths in six notations: dot, JSONPath, brackets, jq, Swift and JSON Pointer โข Values, whole branches (formatted or minified), keys and key-value pairs UNDERSTAND The inspector recognises Unix timestamps, JWT tokens, base64, ISO 8601 dates, URLs and integers too large for JavaScript โ and shows what they mean. TOOLS โข Format, minify, sort keys, unwrap JSON embedded in strings โข Export as JSON or minified JSON JSON MASTER PRO One in-app purchase, no subscription, for iPhone, iPad and Mac: โข JSONPath queries with results as you type โข Structural compare: reordered keys and reindentation are not differences โข Generate Swift Codable, TypeScript interfaces or JSON Schema โข A summary that flags duplicate keys, unsafe integers and JSON hidden in strings โข Export as CSV โข Graphite and Amber CRT themes EVERYWHERE โข Tree and source side by side on Mac and iPad โข Midnight and Daylight themes, plus Graphite and Amber CRT with Pro โข Seven languages: English, German, French, Ukrainian, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. The app follows your system language or the one you choose for it No account, no ads, no tracking. Privacy Policy: https://vybgss.github.io/json-master-docs/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Wake
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Your sessions live on your own machine, inside tmux. Close Wake, lose signal, reboot the phone โ they keep running, and Wake reattaches exactly where they were. Built for the way people work with coding agents: several long-running sessions on a Mac or Linux box, checked on from a phone. THE DASHBOARD One row per session, with the state you actually want to know: producing output, quiet and probably waiting for you, or idle โ plus the last line each one printed. Tap to attach. A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A CHAT Full xterm emulation with one-finger scroll and native selection. Search inside the session. A snippet bar above the keyboard with {{placeholders}} you fill in as you insert. Paste without the system prompt. Nerd Font glyphs, so prompts and TUIs look right. Light and dark themes. On iPad, two sessions side by side. HISTORY THAT DOES NOT EVAPORATE Every byte your sessions print is appended to a log on your own server, then synced to the phone and indexed. Search across sessions and across days, read it on the train with no connection, export a whole transcript to a file. Nothing is lost to a scrollback limit โ and the list of what you were doing, and where, outlives the machine that ran it. PROJECTS, NOT CONNECTIONS Every git repo under the folders you choose, with dirty and unpushed badges so you can see where the work is. Launch templates turn one tap into the right command in the right directory. Browse files over SFTP with Quick Look, upload, rename, make folders. Read git status, log and diff; commit and push. WAKE THE MACHINE Your Mac is allowed to sleep. Tap the server and Wake sends a magic packet through another machine on that network, waits for SSH to answer, and puts you back into your sessions. WHAT IT NEEDS ON THE SERVER sshd, tmux 3.3 or newer, and git. Nothing else. No agent to install, no daemon, no account, no cloud service in the middle. A guided preflight checks every requirement and shows you the exact command to paste for anything missing. KEYS AND ACCESS Import an existing private key in any container: OpenSSH (encrypted too), PKCS#8, PEM, PuTTY .ppk. Ed25519 and ECDSA P-256/384/521 โ RSA is not supported, generate an Ed25519 key instead. Keys live in the Keychain, host keys are pinned on first connection and a change blocks the connection. Face ID can lock the whole app. WAKE PRO Wake is free with one server and two live sessions, and every reading feature โ history, search, export โ is included. Wake Pro โ monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase โ unlocks unlimited servers and sessions. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Nothing you created is ever taken away: if a subscription lapses, extra servers stay in the list and existing sessions remain attachable. PRIVACY No account, no telemetry, no tracking. Your logs stay on your server and on your phone, kept out of iCloud backup. Known secrets โ API tokens, private keys โ are masked in the search index. Retention is yours to set, on both sides. FROM ANYWHERE, NO OPEN PORTS Wake talks plain SSH, directly or through a Cloudflare Tunnel: pick "Cloudflare Tunnel", type your tunnel's hostname, and Wake opens the same connection cloudflared would โ nothing to install on the phone, no port open on your router, service tokens supported for hostnames behind Cloudflare Access. WireGuard and Tailscale work too. Nothing is relayed through us, because there is no us in the path. Wake is not affiliated with or endorsed by any coding agent or service; their names are used only to describe what runs inside your terminal sessions. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://marcotini.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://marcotini.com/eula
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Verdict
JSON Master and Wake are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. JSON Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wake sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
JSON Master ships an update every 8 days, Wake every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | JSON Master | Wake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days โ better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Volodymyr Sichka | Marco Tini |
In-app purchases
JSON Master
- JSON Master Pro$1.99
Wake
- Wake Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Wake Pro Yearly$8.991 Year
- Wake Pro Lifetime$29.99









