Knife Terminal vs JSONPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Knife Terminal
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Knife Terminal mirrors the terminal sessions on your Mac to your iPhone. It is the phone-side companion to the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS. Run Claude Code (or any command-line tool) in Knife Terminal on your Mac, and every tab follows you out the door: ⢠Live mirror ā each session's screen rendered natively, with real colors, text selection and copy ⢠Chat view ā Claude Code sessions read like a messages thread: your prompts, Claude's replies, tool activity ⢠Reply from anywhere ā type into any session from your phone; a push notification tells you when a session is waiting on you ⢠Usage at a glance ā 5-hour, weekly and per-model usage bars, one tap away ⢠Open projects remotely ā start a new session in any recent project without touching the Mac ⢠Private by design ā everything syncs through your own private iCloud database. No accounts, no analytics, no servers of ours; we never see your data. Requires the free, open-source Knife Terminal app for macOS: github.com/cheewee2000/knife-terminal
JSONPad
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JSONPad makes it easy to view, edit, and explore JSON directly on your device. Paste or type JSON directly, open a local file, or load data from a URL. Features: ⢠Clear syntax highlighting, indentation guides, and collapsible sections ⢠Edit JSON directly with continuous syntax validation ⢠Quickly locate errors with precise line and column information ⢠Search using plain text or complete RFC 9535 JSONPath expressions ⢠Navigate between matches and copy JSONPath results ⢠Copy or save edited documents ⢠Smooth handling of large JSON files ⢠Light and dark mode support Your documents are processed locally on your device. URL requests go directly from your device to the selected address and never through a JSONPad server.
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Verdict
Knife Terminal and JSONPad are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Knife Terminal | JSONPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CW&T | Colin Schmale |
In-app purchases
Knife Terminal
No in-app purchases
JSONPad
No in-app purchases



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