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Pythonista 3
Pythonista is a complete scripting environment for Python 3.10, running right on your iPad or iPhone, so you can develop and run Python scripts on the go.
Like Python itself, "batteries are included" – from popular third-party modules like requests, numpy, matplotlib, pandas (and many more) to modules that are tailor-made for iOS. With Pythonista, your scripts can access sensor/location data, your photo library, contacts, reminders, the clipboard, and more, allowing you to harness the full potential of both Python and iOS.
Pythonista is designed with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone to get started with coding, regardless of skill level. The complete Python documentation is also available for offline reading in the app.
Pythonista is not just for learning and practicing Python – it's also a powerful tool for automating iOS with multiple app extensions. You can invoke scripts directly from the share sheet or a custom system keyboard in almost any app, and integrate scripts with Shortcuts and Siri. With Pythonista, it's easy to run your scripts whenever you need them, without having to switch between different apps.
Features:
> Powerful code editor with syntax highlighting, code completion, and scripting support
> Interactive prompt with code completion, command history, and support for showing images
> Integrated visual debugger and object inspector
> Complete offline documentation with quick lookup directly from the editor
> Various beautiful light and dark color themes, and a theme editor to make your own
> UI editor for quick prototyping
> Integrated PEP 8 style checker and code formatter
> Supports most of the Python standard library and additional modules for graphics, sound, and iOS integration (for example clipboard, contacts, reminders, photos, ui...)
> Many popular third-party modules included, for example requests, numpy, matplotlib, pandas, Pillow...
> Lots of included examples
> Universal app for iPad and iPhone
> Share sheet extension for running scripts from almost any app
> Scriptable system-wide keyboard to use Python in any app that edits text
> Advanced integration with the Shortcuts app, allowing you to use Python scripts as actions in shortcuts and personal automations.
Please note that Pythonista is not designed to enable the installation or download of additional modules written in compiled languages (C/C++). While many popular native libraries are included and work out-of-the-box, it is generally not possible to install additional modules with C/C++ dependencies.
The name "Pythonista" is used with kind permission from the Python Software Foundation.
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Developer & User Discourse
shapeshfters • Mar 24, 2026
★ 3
In iOS 26 every other time I open the app it will crash.
Wasamonkey • Mar 24, 2026
Took me only 4 days of learning to code to find a bug. Print(f”””multi-line text”””) color formatting bug. If I can find one this quickly, I’m sure there are plenty of other bugs, and updating to 3.14 wouldn’t be terrible either.
exuser4445 • Mar 22, 2026
i guess it's ok for a lot of things but connecting to remote machines with paramiko is not one of them unless you want to use rsa. why use pythonista instead of a terminal app? to wrap the script in a shortcut...
Aivaneer • Mar 17, 2026
“Next-Level Arcade Gaming! 🎮🚀”WARP PROTOCOL is unlike any mobile game I’ve played before. Built using the Atlas Nexus engine, this game pushes Pythonista 3 to its absolute limits. With a gravity-defying tap-to-survive mechanic, stunning visuals across Neon, Void, and Golden Bull sectors, and an OST that perfectly syncs with the action, it’s truly immersive.
The challenge ramps up as gravity inverts, and collectible shards like 🟦 SHIELD and 🟪 HEALTH keep you in the fight. Think you can survive long enough to unlock BULL MODE? 🐂🔥
Visit our Discord for high scores and reward surprises, and check out our website for updates. This is just the beginning.
🚀Website: pcvr.lol
discord.gg/E7bW3Zh4x
The challenge ramps up as gravity inverts, and collectible shards like 🟦 SHIELD and 🟪 HEALTH keep you in the fight. Think you can survive long enough to unlock BULL MODE? 🐂🔥
Visit our Discord for high scores and reward surprises, and check out our website for updates. This is just the beginning.
🚀Website: pcvr.lol
discord.gg/E7bW3Zh4x
David ama a ChatGPT • Feb 23, 2026
I’m in love with this app
AI Architect • Feb 2, 2026
This is a fantastic app. I have been able to do a lot of work on my iPhone and iPad with it. It's reasonably intuitive to find tools and negotiate it to accomplish real goals. I would absolutely love to have some more libraries supported or at least have the ability to add them ourselves with pip. If I run out of space, I'd like that to be my concern :). Nice product folks. More expansively would be a huge delight. I bought it years ago, would pay a reasonable fee to get significantly enhanced capabilities. Not sure if PyTorch could fit on my 16 ProMax but I'd love to give it a try 🙏😁 I'll buy a new iPad if that's what it takes.
Cog 23 • Feb 1, 2026
No clue how to navigate this system, don’t waste your time or money
MateoGrizzlyBear • Jan 31, 2026
Rad AF boi
jeffEconomist • Jan 27, 2026
This app will not produce interactive plots in a separate window. Instead, it will produce only a static plot in line with the console. Also beware that the app uses an older outdated version of Matplotlib. If you’re transferring a python script that you originally wrote on a desktop system, you may be in for a rude surprise.
Ignaciomq • Jan 20, 2026
The only reason I’m reading this for stars is because you should update more But overall, this is my most used app
Iman - Faith • Jan 14, 2026
Back into Python and highly satisfied with choice of options including StaSh implementation for a bash terminal.
Amirah Anwar • Jan 9, 2026
It capitalizes words written with pencil. When in python you need automatic capitalization
Thylantyr • Dec 19, 2025
It’s good for small scripts, but lacks features to write larger scripts; no line numbers, no search and replace.
BoiMango67🤣🫱 • Nov 6, 2025
Ts app so tuff I've learne how to type in helloworld("print")🥹
good enogh to pass the tome • Oct 28, 2025
Making me sweat in this sandbox
Camtherr • Oct 24, 2025
The only reason I’m giving a 3 star is because occasionally it will crash when opening a folder for some reason and although that’s not to bad I feel that could cause me some problems when I dive deeper into coding. If this doesn’t affect me in the future I’ll change the review cause I have a feeling this will become a very important app for me.
DeveloperEclipse • Oct 18, 2025
Great application to use while you aren’t able to use your computer.
Gangsta Shephard • Oct 3, 2025
Old
dpiponi • Oct 1, 2025
Pythonista is basically a form of torture. I've you've ever used a sane working environment - and I'd include in that anything from a normal IDE to working on the command line with vi - then this thing seems like it's designed to be as painful as possible. The problem of building an IDE was solved decades ago. Software developers figured it out a long time ago. It doesn't consist of random UI elements that slide back and forth in the most counterintuitive way that seem designed to make work as hard as possible. Even the most basic tasks are made difficult. The editor itself is also a joke editor. I *have* written code successfully with Pythonista - which is why I give it 2 stars instead of 1 - but it almost reduced me to tears. Even trivial things are broken - like I'll tap or click on some text and the editor will focus on a completely different part of the code and I have to scroll back and search for where I was. On average, for every 2 or 3 keystrokes there'll be another 1 to fix the things that went wrong. Anyway, I'm currently trying to find the console. I know it's there, I've used it before. But this UI is like hide and seek and I'm losing my patience...
alilcoder • Aug 18, 2025
If you run an empty file saying license(), then in the console, say q, it will lead you to the actual interpreter.
Then if you type quit() the ENTIRE app closes.
Try it!
Then if you type quit() the ENTIRE app closes.
Try it!
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