CppCode - offline C/C++ IDE & Compiler Reviews

I’ve read a couple of bad reviews saying that CppCode crashes a lot and that there are a few miscellaneous bugs. I will say that I have encountered none of those issues, however given their nature that isn’t to say that you won’t.

In my experience, this is a solid app with a lot of neat features that make programming on mobile less tedious (I don’t use an external keyboard, I just use the on-screen one).

However:

I noticed that on the premium info screen, a sale from 2015 is still listed. I think that’s a little misleading and read a review in which someone bought the upgrade, not realizing it was for 2015.

In addition, I don’t think there is a way to read errors on mobile if they’re longer than the width of the screen. I am just learning to program in C, and the inability to read errors along with my inexperience with recognizing them makes them difficult to handle.

Similarly, while the limit of compilations and runs for each time you launch CppCode is a creative way to incentivize the purchase of premium, I would think that in practice it would frustrate people into deleting CppCode rather than upgrading.

Ultimately, CppCode is a solid foundation and with a couple minor fixes it could be a strong option for programming in C and C++ on mobile. In spite of its flaws, it works rather well for the most part, and what flaws it does have aren’t terribly difficult to fix.

I used CppCode for my C++ college class. It was super helpful and the freeness of it made it awesome. It ran very clunky and slow but it did work enough to pass. It hasn't been updated in forever and with the free version you can only run 5 programs before forcing you to close CppCode to run another. It worked well, but not enough to be worth struggling over.

Currently in an introductory course of programming in C. Sometimes you have a solution to your programming as you debug it and it just itches at your brain that you want to try and edit your program and if you're like me walking around a big campus which involves an hour to 2 hours of walking daily then you know how precious time can be and carrying your pc/mac around in your arm is inconvenient. Hopefully I don't run into any problems as this is the only and best compiler I have seen so far. Looking forward to future updates!

I've been trying a lot of IDE/compiler apps being I can't always have my laptop on me, and this is one of the better ones. There's coloring for syntax, you can compile and run(three times per game load, which I guess could be better but it's a free app), and I haven't really had any problems with it. The only suggestion and the reason it's four stars is because you can't have separate files for if I wanted to have a header and cpp files, so I am unable to practice classes and other things, which is something that I need to use often unfortunately.

I have an iPad Pro with smart keyboard that I use for coding on the go, and it's really frustrating that CppCode does not compensate for that feature. Instead of the on-screen keyboard going away completely when the smart keyboard is in use, there is a huge white space taking up where the software keyboard used to be. So even though I'm not using an on-screen keyboard at all, I don't get any additional screen real estate. That should be an easy fix for app developers and since the iPad Pro has been out nearly a year and a half, there isn't much of an excuse for this.

Overall I like CppCode for its main purpose. However, at the moment, when trying to report bugs or offer feedback, CppCode crashes. This generally seems like the worst point you want your app to crash at. Also, when using a Bluetooth keyboard, the onscreen keyboard disappears but you can still only see the part of the screen that was visible while the keyboard is up, which partially defeats the purpose of having the external keyboard.

Again, overall great app, just a few bugs to work out.

I've tried the freemium version a little bit and I think it's a decent compiler. However, no update has been released for more than a year. Since iOS11 is coming out this autumn and new features make iPad more like a productivity tool. Are you going to update CppCode to tap into the more powerful features of iOS?

I’m learning cpp on my phone using another app, and I use CppCode to compile it because it just works better... the flow in this compiler is able to open new windows while running while other mobile compilers lack that ability. *the small things count*

Thank you developers for your creation.

CppCode worked well enough, so when there was a sale - $4.99 instead of $7.99 if purchased before January 5th, I purchased the Premium version on January 4th. When I got my bill from Apple, it was for $7.99! Obviously, I complained to Apple and they refunded the $7.99. Now I don't have the premium version nor the option to get Premium for the $4.99 price. Makes me wonder if there ever was a "sale". Perhaps the developer was hoping no one would check their bill???

Where is the developer? App crashes and has many errors about non Ascii characters. CppCode use to be good.

CppCode is very useful to execute small, simple, custom programs on iOS. Compared to the other C/C++ apps, this one is the best. It doesn't require Internet; C language support is good; and the interface, while a bit buggy, is clutter free.

It could be better if it can open files from other apps. For example I stored all my projects on Onedrive, so it would be more convenience if it can open them from the Onedrive app.

I wish it worked but it keeps crashing within a couple minutes of downloading and launching CppCode . Looks like he updates CppCode regularly and prolly actually compiles offline but it doesn’t work for me =(

This is working very well. But CppCode needs update for compiler to compile program faster. It's compiler is too much slow. It take long to compile a program.

Your app is great but it keeps crashing , it also bans me from compiling after the 3rd time even though i paid for .
The compiling problem goes away and comes back to solve it i have to erase CppCode and download often