ViRE is a Visual Regular Expressions tool. Find your perfect way to visualize regular expressions (RegEx), to accomplish RegEx unit tests within the playground environment, to search and replace particular RegEx components with code complete feature, to benefit from interactive RegEx cheat sheet, multi-level RegEx history, and more.
We offer a free seven days trial of the app for you to explore all the features mentioned above without limitation. We hope that you’ll love the app. After the trial we offer three subscription options (one month, one year, lifetime) for you to choose to continue using the app.
Main Features of ViRE:
1. Regex is finally really readable
2. Code Complete helps to find or recall the right operator (especially over the time)
3. Unit Tests allows to test your regex on the go
4. Replace System is super powerful. It has realtime content preview and allows not only to replace or to reuse capture groups, but also to do unit conversion, number formatting, date conversion, UUIDs insertion, indexes insertion, string capitalization, and others
5. Step-by-Step Search & Replace makes it easy to clean/modify text and debug regex at every step
6. Regex Scheme perfectly visualizes regex flow
7. ViRE History stores as many ViREs as you need
ViRE is available on Mac and iPad.
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Impressably comfortable to use and greatly reduces eye fatigue!
Purchased the lifetime subscription because it’s almost perfect and the most outstanding visual regular expression environment available for macOS & iPadOS at the time of this writing. Extremely grateful for the developer taking the time to create ViRE because although every other RegEx app in the MAS are productively useful they lack the contextual visual ease of use that ViRE possess!
Wishlist:
• Enable the “Send a copy” icon on toolbar to share (Airdrop/DropBox/GoogleDrive/iCloud, etc.) selected text results or RegEx scripts to other apps and to allow bidirectional transfer between ViRE iPadOS/macOS or add an Import/Export to external file, menu option. The current contextual menu activated on selections in ViRE macOS doesn’t show access to all these features like ViRE iPadOS does in my use case.
• Optionally show invisible characters hidden within imported text.
• Also include a regular expression dictionary or glossary panel to reference richer description details of meta characters (although the contextual autocomplete is a must have it also blocks the imported text from view while you’re thinking and scrolling through it).
• Add deeper descriptive syntax error notices.
• Add your support link to the help menu in macOS (It’s extremely easy to forget that it’s available only in the MAS for ViRE).
• Also include ViRE introduction steps under the help menu (in case I’d like to remove them from the ViRE history to reduce clutter for future projects).
• Consider adding additional syntax formats in the future (ecma script{javascript}, python, C#, etc.).
OK but help hard to find
Once I closed the special ViRE window pane on the left I could not get it back and could not find help online either. Discouraging especially considering this is a subscription type of app. I also do not know how to import or cut and paste other text into the search area.
Only Regex Pipeline on the Apple Store - But…
This is a promising application, but I would like to see the developer integrate it with iCloud Files, provide an iPhone version, and sync ViREs between devices. Great UI, but basic UX.
Not for users already familiar with RegEx!
If you are already familiar with Regex this app actually makes your own Regex harder to understand especially if you are familiar with the syntax. The "long" horizontal scrolling is actually very annoying. It might have been better with a tree style stacked view with no horizontal scrolling.
It may be useful for someone trying to learn Regex and then justify the monthly or yearly subscription fee.
For seasonsed Regex users one time payment apps like Expressions, Patterns are actually more useful to write and test Regex!
REGEX TESTING IS EASY
Being able to test some of my regular expressions right here right now in the regular expression creator app is what makes a lot of sense to me. Going step-by-step in adding up to the initial regex and seeing how it is reflected in live mode was awesome. I recommend this app to those who want to substitute lines of code with an elegant and well-tested regular expression.
Regex testing made easy
Being able to test some of my regular expressions right here right now in the regular expression creator app is what makes a lot of sense to me. Going step-by-step in adding up to the initial regex and seeing how it is reflected in live mode was awesome. I recommend this app to those who want to substitute lines of code with an elegant and well-tested regular expression.
Authentic app
This app came up really handy when I needed to search and replace various data formats in my customer roster to include social media accounts and contact details. It was easy to work with the large number of files at once and keep each phase as a separate editable step. There are not so many apps like this for iPad users and so I really appreciate the authenticity.
Saving myself guesswork
Even if you’ve been using the regex for a long time you’ll learn a lot from this app. I’ve touched the regex a few times before but it always seemed to be a fairly complex thing to remember to add the operators, syntax, etc. Now with ViRE I finally will save myself a lot of guesswork. Stellar job.
Best iPad RegEx app
I don't like web apps as they don’t work smoothly on mobile webpages. I really enjoy having native experience on my iPad.
Great RegEx app!
If you ever wanted to learn more about the RegEx and dive deeper into them in a user-friendly environment - this is the ONE! Get submerged, enjoy the experience, feel the leaps of advance on your learning curve along the way!
