Code App Reviews

It’s impossible to work on a modern Django5 app using Django allauth are use any kind of actual web development process with this poorly maintained application because the python version is so old that modern web stuff doesn’t support it and so you can’t even install the wheels because the python version is so out of date.

I had really high hopes for CodeApp and now I’m regretting the purchase and warning my devs to stay away due to the lack of updates, and the fact that everything is so old that you can’t even get a modern requirements text file to install the dependencies you need to actually work on your application.

I really feel like this was a bait and switch, and I’m angry, because I had a really high hopes, so I paid.

My main complaint is that the compiler doesn’t work right and fails to link files properly. I tried writing a fairly basic program in c++ on here and it kept thinking that functions were undefined or were attempts to declare new functions despite them being calls.

I copied the program over to my computer and it compiled and executed fine.

So excellent idea, and if they work those problems out then I’ll be back, but as for now, it’s lack luster at best. (As a footnote it’s possible I’m just misunderstanding a unique nuance/ extra step that’s necessary for CodeApp.)

Fantastic Idea! Especially leaning into local execution. However, it's terminal is inconsistently broken in that it frequently does not: link to the frameworks they provide, cannot exit the python interpreter if you hit ctrl-c (or cmd-a or ctrl-a as per the menu), and occasionally dies outright and needs to be re-installed. Pip did not work once.

Abstracting the local environment part of CodeApp into a separate project/app meant to bring a local Unix-link environs would be something I'd pay for all on its own. However, i think moving both into one project has lead to meh execution.

I really want to use CodeApp and will continue chinking in on it to see if it improves over time. It's also open source which is super cool and thank you.

I was initially very pleasantly surprised to see this offline IDE for the iPad, but it is unfortunately quite buggy and the compiler output is not accurate. So, if you are studying programming, I think that CodeApp in its current state is not a good option, as you can easily get confused. CodeApp certainly has a lot of potential, so hopefully, it will get more love from the developer.

Using this at first was pretty frustrating running into problems with what felt like pretty basic stuff – terrible support for the touch keyboard (selecting text is difficult to impossible) PLUS issues with the hardware keyboard (Want to scroll with two fingers? Think again!) left me wondering how I was actually *supposed* to use CodeApp . But when I went to submit a bug report and saw it was a direct link to the issues on GitHub, I read a little bit about why the bugs are the way they are, realized that this seems to be either a small team or like, one dude, and saw that they are trying their best and listening to feedback. And I appreciate that.

So this won’t work as your lounge-on-your-couch-with-the-iPad-and-code app I like I hoped it would, but it’s still pretty solid. Looks good, performance is great – if you want to support a small team (or just a dude, possibly) and don’t mind a few little quirks here and there, this does the trick!

(Also if you’re reading this, support for more than one set of GIT credentials eventually would be dope 👌)

The first time I fired up CodeApp , everything worked well and I was sure that I’d discovered my favorite new tool. The next time I opened my iPad, ssh didn’t work. Unfortunately, “unknown error” appears to be a known issue and there’s no way to troubleshoot it.

Great but buttons on side navigation dont work when using external screen. If you move CodeApp back to the iPad all the nav works after.

Please add solidity syntax highlighting and compiler. Also, the vscode intellisense autocomplete would really make coding easier and faster with CodeApp. I really hope to see these features including in upcoming updates. For now, I’ll rate it 4 stars.

Still having this issue I can’t select all of my scripts and delete them all and have to use backspace to delete one by one which is frustrating. Hope developers address this issue in the next update.

I have no idea how cloning works, after showing Welcome page and clicking Clone a repository… What it show me is Source control. Man, I not going to commit, I want to clone a repo. I don’t know how it rated as top and let my pay for lie action. To be honest I cold clone repo once, but I have no clue to figure it out.

Bought it for C, and it really works well when it works.
But, the ^C button doesn’t work, and if it get stuck in an infinite loop, there’s no way to exit the loop without closing CodeApp and reopening it. Don’t know if i missed a setting or not…

Since ~2013, I’ve used an iPad to develop on-the-go and in classrooms, and I’ve always been disappointed by the weak dev tools that were supported on CodeApp Store.

With CodeApp supporting many of the VSCode shortcuts (specifically multicursor support), I’ve been quite impressed.

The only thing I wish could be added is support for some of the instructions from the VSCode MetaGo / MetaJump extensions,

Namely bookmarks & the search and jump functionality it supports.

Does most things I need as a web developer. I do wish there were some QoL updates when using keyboards like the TabOut extension from VSCode, but otherwise great

When trying to connect to a remote it always crashes CodeApp . Trying to connect so i can run the terminal commands on the remote machine.

Edit:

CodeApp is working great and love the fast turn around from the Developer.

Judging by the reviews, CodeApp may have had a rough start a few years ago, but as of 2025, it works great for me. I use it almost daily for programming in Python, both locally and on a remote server. One suggestion would be to update the Python version to 3.13 and refresh the built-in packages.

Just started using this today. Very impressed. Was able to clone my private repo and see it running live in the browser, make changes, and commit them back to the repo.

The editor is responsive. It looks like a work in progress but so far that progress is very good.

Thanks for the brilliant features and I believe it’s the best for iPad. However, some libraries like tkinter aren’t available for Python and changing the location of bash etc. features are not available. Lastly, I believe in the team and you can fix all the bugs and thanks for CodeApp !

This is a tool that I have been looking for the past couple years after coming across Pythonista. The language support and similarity to my desktop setup is very nice! It makes it easy to work on the go and just play around with projects. Either way, if you’re looking for a Text Editor similar to VSCode for your iPad and this is the solution.

I wonder if plugin support will ever come? That’d be killer!

Thank you and keep up the support!

I use this for most programming, since I can run common programming languages, install libraries, so on and so forth. It's a little bit glitch at times, but generally, this is the best IDE you can find on the appstore.

If you're wanting to run some more exotic programming languages or even just Java, you'll have to do it somewhere else, but if you want to run Python, C, JS, etc, this works great for that. The only thing is, it doesn't support Swift even though it's open source last time I remembered, just SwiftUI isn't.

In general, if you're wanting to program on your iPad or iPhone, this is CodeApp for you; you can run everything from simple programs to AI, the terminal has some basic functions like ping, and the UI is basically the exact same as VSCode, so it'll be pretty easy to get used to if you're a user of VSCode.

- PF

I can now do everything I need to do for my job on an iPad. CodeApp was the last arrow I needed for my quiver. Who doesn’t want to be able to do cloud formation deployments straight from their iPad?