Comparison

React Handbook vs Monkeytail

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

Head to head
About

React Handbook

Features
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The entire React documentation in one app, fully offline. WHAT IS INSIDE The react.dev handbook — 177 articles: quick start, learning guides, the API reference and hooks. All of it ships with the app: on the underground, on a plane and with no signal, the documentation opens exactly as it does at home. LANGUAGES English, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. English and Russian are complete. The language comes from the phone; articles the community has not translated yet are shown in English with a note. READING • Dark theme • Text size • Reading progress: the app remembers where you stopped and takes you back • Search inside the handbook • Links inside articles open the article they name, not a browser HONESTLY No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. The app does not need the internet to work. The react.dev documentation is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

About

Monkeytail

Features
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Monkeytail is a native request debugger for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. The compact Apple Watch companion sends favourite requests copied from iPhone. No Monkeytail account or sign-in. • Import cURL, Postman collections, Insomnia JSON, and OpenAPI or Swagger JSON/YAML. • Organize nested folders with shared headers, authentication, variables, and JavaScript hooks. • Use OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and refresh tokens, API keys, Basic, Bearer, and AWS Signature V4. • Manage cookies and client certificates. Inspect request timings, redirects, and TLS details. • Edit GraphQL queries and variables, browse schema fields, and inspect WebSocket or SSE messages. • Format JSON, browse a tree, search, run visual response tests, and inspect images, audio, video, hex, or binary data. • Save and compare responses, create offline mocks, and export Swift, JavaScript, Python, or Kotlin client code. • Sync workspaces with optional iCloud Drive. Choose proxies. Browser TLS/HTTP2 profiles are available on iOS and Mac. Free, with no in-app purchases, analytics, tracking, or data collection by Kitta Co. Requests go to servers and proxies you choose. Keychain storage is optional. Choose whether credentials join iCloud sync. Cookies, client certificates, and upload files remain on your device. Requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 or later. Client certificate import on Mac requires macOS 15. Import, schema validation, and scripting support the documented subset.

Screenshots

React Handbook4 screens
Monkeytail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Monkeytail at 5 against React Handbook's 3. React Handbook's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
React Handbook versus Monkeytail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReact HandbookMonkeytail
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB11 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperMikhail EfanovKitta Co.

In-app purchases

None

React Handbook

No in-app purchases

None

Monkeytail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is React Handbook free?
React Handbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Monkeytail free?
Monkeytail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do React Handbook or Monkeytail have ads?
Neither React Handbook nor Monkeytail shows ads.

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