Code App Downloads & RevenueCode App · App Store
Code App is #6 in Developer Tools Paid in United States and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Full timeline · 28 events
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · KR
- ✏️Code App added hidden keywords: github, pythonwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · US
- 📈Code App charting in a new countryPoland
- ✏️Code App added hidden keywords: compilerwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Code App entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · SE
- 📈Code App charting in a new countrySweden
- ✏️Code App added hidden keywords: scriptablewords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · DE
- 📈Code App charting in a new countrySpain
- ✏️Code App added hidden keywords: githubwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Code App charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈Code App entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · KR
- 📈Code App entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · BR
- 📈Code App entered the top 10Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · IT
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · GB
- 📈Code App entered the top 10Top Paid · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · FR
- 📈Code App entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · CN
- 📈Code App entered the top 10Top Paid · Developer Tools · FR
- 📈Code App hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · AE
- 📈Code App entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Developer Tools · AU · Top Paid · Developer Tools · CA
- 📈Code App entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AU
- 🆕Code App first spotted by AppInsider#81 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools · United Kingdom
- 📦Code App version 1.12.3No release notes
- 🆕Code App released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Developer Tools PaidCode App at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Code App is a paid, MIT-licensed desktop-class code editor for iPadOS that integrates multiple language runtimes and development tools for mobile programmers. The app holds strong positions in the Paid Developer Tools charts across major markets including IT (#2), GB (#3), and US (#4), indicating consistent demand for comprehensive mobile coding environments.
Similar apps: Textastic, Pythonista, Working Copy
Code App on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Code App declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Code App downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Code App's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Developer ToolsPaid | #6 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsPaid | #2 |
 South Korea | Developer ToolsPaid | #4 |
 China | Developer ToolsPaid | #10 |
 Japan | Developer ToolsPaid | #13 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsPaid | #4 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsPaid | #11 |
 India | Developer ToolsPaid | #6 |
| United States | Developer ToolsGrossing | #72 |
 France | Developer ToolsPaid | #10 |
| China | Developer ToolsGrossing | #60 |
 Germany | Developer ToolsPaid | #17 |
| Japan | Developer ToolsGrossing | #82 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsPaid | #12 |
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsGrossing | #66 |
 Russia | Developer ToolsPaid | #13 |
| South Korea | Developer ToolsGrossing | #57 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsPaid | #19 |
| Italy | Developer ToolsGrossing | #39 |
 Indonesia | Developer ToolsPaid | #14 |
 Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsPaid | #14 |
| Brazil | Developer ToolsGrossing | #63 |
| India | Developer ToolsGrossing | #81 |
| Russia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #96 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsPaid | #24 |
| Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsGrossing | #82 |
Apps near Code App on the chart
Developer Tools Paid, around #6.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Code App
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app as a powerful VS Code alternative for iPadOS with strong Git and SSH integration. However, frequent complaints highlight critical bugs in file saving, code execution stability, and missing language support or autocompletion.
Mixed but leaning positive (62% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and the design.
What people like
- Features & content: “features are not available”
- Useful: “It's a useful app at a very fair price”
- Crashes & bugs: “Being able to see PHP errors would be awesome”
- Updates: “Update pythone to the latest version, big guy”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “No typescript code error!”
- Design: “Great UI Bad file updating”
- Features & content: “This app don’t have save option, why!”
- Privacy & data: “It didn’t work saying permissions error and such stuff, I checked GitHub repo and others complaining from this too for a while”
About Code App
We built it because there is nothing else on the App Store provides all these features in one app:
* A robust, high-performance text editor (Monaco Editor from Visual Studio Code)
* Autocomplete, static code analysis and other language features for Python & Java
* First class local file system support
* Extensive local language support
* SSH / FTP remote connection support (Files and terminal)
* Embedded emulated terminal
* Git Version Control
* Package manager support (pip and npm)
* Markdown, themes, server-side snippet execution and more
Read Code App's documentation: code.thebaselab.com
See the project's source code, roadmap, discussion on GitHub: github.com/thebaselab/codeapp
Send us an email: [email protected]
Privacy Policy: thebaselab.com/privacypolicies
Terms of Use (EULA): www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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