Codea

Creative coding

Published by: Two Lives Left
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"It’s kind of like the Garage Band of coding." – Wired
"Codea for iPad is a super slick way to write and run programs on your iPad." – Gizmodo
Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer.
We think Codea is the most beautiful code editor you'll use, and it's easy. Codea is designed to let you touch your code. Want to change a color, or an image? Tapping will bring up visual editors that let you choose exactly what you want.
Codea is built on the Lua programming language. A simple, elegant language that doesn't rely too much on symbols — a perfect match for iPad.
Here's how you use it: type your code. Press play to watch it run. Interact with it. Get creative.
FEATURES
• A fully featured 2D and 3D renderer
• Lots of great example projects to learn from, including games
• Touch your code: tap colors, images and sounds to adjust them
• Export your finished projects to Xcode to produce real apps
• Complete in-line reference documentation accessible from keyboard
• Intelligent syntax highlighting and auto-completing code editor
• Import your own assets from Dropbox
• Full 2D and 3D physics engines for complex motion
• Add parameters so you can tweak variables at runtime
• Interact with accelerometer and multi-touch on your device
• Generate retro-game sound effects
• GLSL Shader Language support with live shader editor
• Bluetooth keyboard support and keyboard shortcuts
• Air Code: code live from your PC using WiFi
• Much, much more
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Join the forums at https://talk.codea.io to ask questions, share ideas and get help when you need it
• If you need help or wish to get in contact with us, please use the support link on this page
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  • Is Codea free?

    Codea is not free (it costs 799.00), however it doesn't contain in-app purchases or subscriptions.

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    The price of Codea is 799.00.

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User Rating

4.4 out of 5

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Codea Reviews

Great but

TheTrueFilDom on

Czechia

You can only run graphical applications, there is a console, but most of the screen and console consumes the graphical environment. Input also doesn't work, it always returns nil. Please introduce a new update, with an input system that actually works and a console application where the Graphical environment doesn't consume more than 70% of the screen. Thank you.

Ruce pryč

Tomáš Kubín on

Czechia

Tahle apliakce je jenom hromádka her s kódem. Žádné vysvětlení, žádná výuka, žádný tutorial. Naprosto zybtečná aplikace. Je drzost požadovat za ni ty peníze.

Excelent

a2clay on

Czechia

Excelent app!

excelent

ivanhoex on

Czechia

excelent!

Excelent

Volprecht on

Czechia

Excelent app!

please fix

please fix really big problem on

United States

hello, can you fix the fact that when air code is used and we change something in visual studio, codea crashes and so does the connection

Best IDE on the AppStore

KryptoKizik on

United States

I'm a long time user of Pythonista on iOS, I was sad to see it become mostly abandonware over the last few years. However, the eventual death of Pythonista led to the discovery of Codea. Now Python and LUA are vastly different languages with very different audiences but if you love to code you to learn to adapt. That is the only place Codea falls short compared to Pythonista. Documentation and the organization of that documentation. I understand Two Lives Left is an independent studio with a small team and I have nothing but praises for them. But, a LOT of users are going to need good, easy to follow docs with examples of how this engine works to properly get the hang of it.... Myself included.... Honestly calling Codea an engine makes a LOT more sense than calling it an IDE. Sure it's an IDE but it is also a renderer, handles all animation, shaders and so on. This is defold for iOS with some platform specific handcuffs thanks to iOS. The community is strong, responsive, extremely friendly and helpful and only a click away from within the app. Well done there. This helps fill the void from confusing docs. Best money I've ever spent in the AppStore, without a doubt.

Can make games

Dinoball9013 on

United States

Like this app. I am making a game with it. It support controller, keyboard/mouse, and touch.

Games on website are not in AppStore getting 404s for app support

jedishrfu on

United States

Tried to get StarSceptre and other games listed on the Codea.io website only to be told they are not available on the AppStore. The only available one is CargoBot. What’s going on? Getting 404s for website.

Fake app 🤮 Dont buy: 🛑😡

kamsott on

United States

money theft, not useful for devs 🤮 I’ll contact apple to get my money back, It does not support any programming languages It's just a pixel game development. 😭 ‌”Robot Mania: Physics Sandbox” is Much better and free. waste of money.

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App Info

Publisher
Two Lives Left
Languages
Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish
Recent release
3.12.3 (2 months ago )
Released on
Oct 26, 2011 (13 years ago )
Last Updated
2 days ago
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