My Lisp Downloads & RevenueMy Lisp · App Store
My Lisp is #18 in Developer Tools Paid in United States and charting in 12 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 6 events in the last 12 months
- 📈My Lisp hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · IT
- 📈My Lisp entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · IT
- 📈My Lisp entered the top 10Top Paid · Developer Tools · US
- 📈My Lisp entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · US
- 🆕My Lisp first spotted by AppInsider#46 in Top Paid · Developer Tools · France
- 🆕My Lisp released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
My Lisp at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-27. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
My Lisp is a standalone, offline interpreter and editor for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that implements John McCarthy's original Lisp alongside modern dialect features, targeting developers and students interested in functional programming and symbolic mathematics. The app holds the #1 position in Paid Developer Tools in Italy and ranks within the top 50 paid developer tools across major markets including Japan, Russia, France, and the UK, indicating strong niche appeal despite its age.
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My Lisp on the App Store
App details
My Lisp 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 My Lisp'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.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
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| Developer ToolsPaid | #18 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #24 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #40 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #77 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #49 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #47 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #41 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #57 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #48 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #48 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #77 | |
| Developer ToolsPaid | #79 |
Apps near My Lisp on the chart
Developer Tools Paid, around #18.
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 My Lisp
From the 8 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's speed, editor quality, and value for learning Lisp concepts on iOS. However, significant frustration exists regarding missing standard library functions, poor documentation, and basic UI issues like scrolling.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars).
About My Lisp
My Lisp offers an interpreter and an editor, all working on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and most importantly, without requiring any server connection, that is, the interpreter is executing locally on the iPhone, iPad or Mac My Lisp is installed on.
Library and example files contain the source code of classical functions and problems solved by My Lisp and may be used as reference to learn Lisp and develop other programs. They include classical puzzles (hanoi and n-queens), basic mathematical functions (gcd, lcm, factorial, fibonacci, prime?), and the historical apply, mapcar and maplist functions. The Lambda Calculus example file contains various functions related to Lambda Calculus and Combinators, with alpha-conversion, beta-reduction, de Bruijn notations, etc. As a special note, the example file Symbolic Derivation contains a complete yet extensible symbolic derivation module allowing to compute the formal derivation of virtually any symbolic function expressed as a Lisp expression.
A user manual and a reference manual are available from within the application but also on My Lisp web site (https://lisp.lsrodier.net) and in Apple Books. The complete source code of the library and example files is part of My Lisp.
Last but not least, this overview couldn’t end without a sample definition of the notorious REPL function:
(define (REPL eval_me) (REPL (println (eval (read)))))
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