Pythonista 3

I downloaded the Pythonista app to modify an Apple setting to auto-run on command. While the app provides detailed pictures of its layout, I quickly found it overwhelming. This app is clearly designed for users who already have a solid understanding of Python and know how to navigate complex UI interfaces. Unfortunately, it doesn’t teach you how to use Python or how to make the app work for your needs. I requested a refund through Apple, stating that the app didn’t work as I expected, but my request was denied. I feel like I wasted my money and cannot recommend this app to beginners or anyone unfamiliar with Python.

Pythonista on its own is great. But for someone confined with limitations in both their physical and virtual environments: Pythonista is missing a major opportunity for next-level coding and learning with ChatGPT or even with Claude as well. On Mac? ChatGPT can integrate with countless apps to read what’s going on. Pythonista could and should have taken it a step farther by having full ChatGPT code environment hand-off and read/write integration for local code / script execution (including R). ChatGPT’s code environment usually has around 750MB RAM free which can quickly become insufficient with neural networks. Copying and pasting, iterating, works: but is suboptimal. The solution for when ChatGPT detects its in the iPhone app and running into memory constraints is to ask “would you like me to use your local Pythonista environment” and then execute and display results back in both the app and in ChatGPT, sometimes back to Claude for it to fix something. ChatGPT is a great start, and Claude would be a wonderful addition. Pythonista is gorgeous and functionally brilliant and fast. Pythonista should become the “go-to” for AI coding offloads on iPhone… otherwise other solutions will make their way there eventually. Only a matter of time…

Best app on the all store.

Such a great way to do Python on the go. Especially with my iPad, but also nice for iPhone . It doesn’t need WiFi. Turtle works great… everything works great. Thank you!

1. I wasted several hours searching for a workaround for buggy show() function to no avail. 2. I entered an entire program to model a wave equation and when I hit return after the last line everything vanished.

Thank you

I really love the functionality and flexibility this app provides. Only wish the keyboard had spellcheck/fixed grammar, but I suppose that might be possible to do in the text effects.

I got this app to be able to do my python course whilst traveling. I am impressed. It does everything I expect it to do. I can keep up with the Jupyter notebook parts of the class and I only need to take my ipad with me. I am really happy with this purchase and would recommend it to all newbies beginning their road to Python greatness. Once I have a better idea of what I am doing and achieved that level where I dare say I can code in Python, I shall give another review.

Was amazing back before it became a buggy mess. The lack of consistent updates means that with each new iOS OS release, the app becomes more and more unstable. Even the forums are a SPAM haven.

Beautiful app. It hasn’t been updated in a while so I hope it hasn’t been abandoned. Looking forward to a version that includes Python 3.12 or 3.13 with some additional popular third party packages. Some great packages I would recommend including if they are compatible are: uv, ruff, polars, mypy, streamlit, nicegui, flet, fasthtml, fastapi, loguru, fire, rich, plotly, pydantic, scp, pyserial, pexpect, pytest-cov, pytest-mock, mkdocs, mkdocstrings, codespell, pip-audit, pre-commit, pre-commit-hooks.