Monkeytail vs TabForge

Monkeytail is a native API client and request debugger for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, with a compact Apple Watch companion for favourite requests. No Monkeytail account or sign-in. • Organise workspaces, each with its own collections, environments and globals, in a sidebar tree of nested folders. Move requests and folders by dragging them. • Import cURL, Postman, Insomnia, Bruno, Hoppscotch, Thunder Client, HAR, .http files and OpenAPI or Swagger JSON/YAML. • Share headers, authentication, variables and scripts across folders. Postman-style pm scripts and tests run unchanged, with CryptoJS, lodash and moment. • Use OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, OAuth 1.0, JWT, Digest, API keys, Basic, Bearer and AWS Signature V4. • Run whole collections with data files and export reports. Generate client code in 13 languages. • Edit GraphQL queries and variables, and inspect WebSocket and SSE messages. • Format JSON, browse a tree, search, check responses with visual tests, and preview images, audio, video, hex or binary data. • Save and compare responses, create offline mocks, and manage cookies and client certificates. Inspect timings, redirects and TLS details. • Choose a theme, your own light and dark colours, and interface and code fonts. • Use Monkeytail in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese. • Sync with iCloud Drive and choose proxies. Browser TLS and HTTP/2 profiles are available on iPhone, iPad 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, and you choose whether credentials join iCloud sync. Cookies, client certificates and upload files stay on your device. Requires iOS 17 or macOS 14 or later. Client certificate import on Mac requires macOS 15.

TabForge is an open-source programming keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Write code, scripts and terminal commands with punctuation and editing controls beside the letter keys. Indent a line, move the cursor or insert a saved snippet. The keyboard's gear menu gives you access to settings and code tools in the app you're typing in. Programming keys - Type braces, square brackets, angle brackets, parentheses and full ASCII punctuation. - Choose Tab, two spaces or four spaces, with indent, outdent and automatic newline indentation. - Use arrows, Escape and Control, Option and Command keys. Their behavior depends on the input profile and host app. - Hold a key for its digit or related operators, and choose which keys the toolbar shows. - Save snippets for commands, operators and repeated text. - Get language suggestions for Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Shell and JSON. Layouts for your screen Phone layouts keep familiar letter keys with coding controls close by. Compact landscape layouts leave more room for the app above the keyboard. Larger iPad and supported Duo layouts show more controls. Choose your key size and keyboard height, follow iOS light and dark appearance, or select a code palette. Editing and input profiles Use Code editor for pairing and indentation, Terminal · ANSI for supported control text, or Remote desktop for literal input. Terminal and remote behavior depends on the client: a keyboard extension inserts text and cannot send arbitrary hardware-key events. Line edits need enough context from the host app to verify the change. Optional English prose autocorrect runs on the device in eligible text fields. Apple's spelling service finds misspellings, and TabForge picks the replacement from a bundled word list and the words around the cursor, weighing where you tapped. It is off by default, skips code-like input and stays inactive in Terminal, Remote desktop and the code playground. Space applies a correction; immediate Delete restores your spelling. An optional Learn my tap positions setting keeps average tap offsets for each key on this device to sharpen corrections. Turning it off erases them. The companion playground Edit text with syntax highlighting, line numbers, undo and a share action. The playground does not run code. Its keyboard, layout and theme screens change the installed keyboard's settings and snippets. Voice to code lets you dictate, review spoken punctuation and insert the result. It requires microphone and Speech permission plus available on-device English recognition. Voice input runs in the companion app; iOS controls system Dictation availability. Optional swipe typing uses a bundled English word list with word frequencies, programming words and names from the text around the cursor, with alternatives in the gear menu. It works offline, is off by default and remains experimental. Tap typing works better for some identifiers. Optional support TabForge is free. If you would like to support its development, the companion app's Tip Jar offers optional one-time purchases through Apple. Tips unlock no features and are not subscriptions. Open source and privacy TabForge is MIT licensed, with source and privacy details linked in the companion app. The keyboard does not log or transmit keystrokes. There are no ads, analytics or accounts. Keyboard preferences and custom snippets can be set from the keyboard's gear menu or in the companion app. The app's changes go in a container the keyboard can only read; changes made in the keyboard and optional tap learning stay in its own container. Full Access is not requested. The companion playground saves its draft separately. Apps you type into, Apple system services, device backups and destinations you choose when sharing have their own data practices. Requires iOS or iPadOS 27.0 or later. Duo-specific layouts require 27.1. iOS uses its system keyboard in secure and phone fields, and some apps decline third-party keyboards.