Comparison

CodeMate vs Zenhook

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

Head to head
About

CodeMate

A mobile code editor and viewer with syntax highlighting, customizable themes, and iCloud sync. It allows for quick edits and sharing of code files on iPhone and iPad. Optimized for readability and portability.

Highlights
  • Syntax highlighting for multiple languages
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Customizable themes and typography
  • Edit and view code on iPhone/iPad
  • Share and export code files
  • HTML preview with CSS/JS
Features
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CodeMate is a native code viewer and editor for iPhone and iPad—made for reading source code, learning from real projects, and making quick edits away from your desk. No desktop IDE complexity. Just fast, focused code viewing and editing designed for touch. Open more than 200 file formats with native syntax highlighting, including Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C/C++, Go, Rust, HTML, CSS, JSON, XML, YAML, and Markdown. Access files from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, and other storage providers through the Files app. Key Features: • Native code viewing and editing on iPhone and iPad • Syntax highlighting for 200+ file formats • Multiple tabs and a minimap for navigating long files • Light and dark themes with adjustable fonts, spacing, and margins • Line numbers, current-line highlighting, word wrap, and no-word-wrap modes • Swift symbol list and jump to any line • HTML preview with linked CSS and JavaScript • Custom file extension rules • Share and print source files • Export polished code snapshots as images CodeMate is made for developers, students, and anyone who wants a focused, portable way to read, learn from, and edit code. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Zenhook

Features
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Your app, live. On your phone. A sale, a new player, a sign-up, an error, a site that goes down. Zenhook puts what happens in what you build on your phone, as it happens. 1,000 events a month, free. No SDK. INBOX - Every event of your workspace, newest first, one line each. Tap a line to read its message, fields and link. - While you were away: the top line adds up what came in, with the unread count, the money received and the errors. - Errors and warnings are marked. A deploy shows its steps and the one that failed. - Mark all as read in one tap. Long press an event to ask the Assistant about it. MONITORS - Add a URL and Zenhook checks it every minute from outside your servers (every 30 seconds on Pro). - Each site shows its response time now, its latency over the last 24 hours and 24 bars, one per hour, with its uptime over 24 hours. - When a site goes down, you get an alert, and its tile turns red and says for how long. You get another alert when it is back up. - A failure counts only when a second check confirms it, so one network blip does not wake you up. - For a service on a private network (VPN, LAN, localhost), a command you run inside the network reports each check. ASSISTANT - Ask about your events in plain words: “What happened this week?”, “Any errors in the last 24 hours?”, “Who signed up?” - It answers from your workspace's events. Your conversations are kept, grouped by day, with search. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create a channel: sign-ups, payments, errors, deploys. 2. Copy its webhook URL. 3. POST JSON to it from your code, your CI, a cron job or a no-code tool. 4. Your phone pings. That's it. An event can carry a title, a message, a level (info, success, warning, error), an emoji, fields, a link and the person it is about. If it can send an HTTP request, it works with Zenhook. NOTIFICATIONS - Push on your phone and, if you want it, email, set per workspace and per channel. - When the same event keeps coming, you get the first few, then at most one notification an hour with each event and its count. The Inbox still shows everything. FREE TO START Free: 1,000 events a month, 3 channels, 3 monitors and 50 questions to the Assistant. Pro raises the limits to 50,000 events a month, unlimited channels, 20 monitors and 5 members. In English, French and Portuguese. Docs: https://zenhook.dev/docs Privacy: https://zenhook.dev/en/privacy

Screenshots

CodeMate4 screens
Zenhook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zenhook at none against CodeMate's 4. Zenhook also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price 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

Both are free to download. CodeMate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Zenhook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CodeMate ships an update monthly, Zenhook every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CodeMate versus Zenhook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCodeMateZenhook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS27.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer光 李Solar Beam

In-app purchases

4 purchases

CodeMate

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99
None

Zenhook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CodeMate free?
CodeMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zenhook free?
Zenhook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CodeMate or Zenhook have ads?
CodeMate shows ads; Zenhook does not.
Which is updated more often, CodeMate or Zenhook?
CodeMate ships an update monthly, and Zenhook every 4 days. Most recently, CodeMate was updated on October 20, 2026 and Zenhook on October 17, 2026.

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