Pythonista 3

Great app to work on some ideas on the go.

I can’t understand why this software cost money.

Can you add the ability to also return the script's output to an iOS shortcut after trigger?

Who knows the real python experience. Should know that this app limits you more than a jail.

A very good app well designed. Comfortable to use and can run locally very effectively.

The app is overall useful. I did however already encounter harmful “features” which may cause me to discontinue using the application on my IPad Pro. Using an external keyboard, each character pressed triggers the appearance of an “extended” key-set at the bottom of the screen, at the exact right position to block the view of the console command line. It pretty much renders the console useless, unless each line is independently copied there from a different text input location. I did look for a configuration option to stop the extended keyboard from appearing, but to no avail. I will appreciate any and all solutions to this phenomenon, be it an update or a configuration trick I did not find.

On the ipad

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.