techBASIC

This app and the associated one that allows you to create and save apps to your IOS devices are well worth the cost. I’ve written apps to support helicopter operations, control BLE devices, and perform spectral analyses of data collected with an Arduino. It is so much easier to learn and use than Swift and Xcode that I’m surprised that it isn’t almost universally used for simple apps.

Does everything you would want it to do unless you want to make an actual selling app then you might as well just learn xcode because you need to buy the 50 dollar app for mac which just uses xcode to compile it

This is a nice BASIC programming environment reminiscent of the BASIC languages from popular computers of the 1980s. I grew up with Apple II computers and at one point even used techBASIC's predecessor, GS BASIC, also written by the Byte Works. I like that it gives you access to the raw data from the sensors (something that will take me a while to figure out how to use effectively in my own programs). In the several days that I have used the product, I've already been able to create some fun and interesting effects and graphics displays. The built-in function graphing routines are quite powerful. One thing that seems to be missing from this version (1.0.2) is the ability to easily detect whether the device is in portrait or landscape orientation. I could probably figure it out from the raw accelerometer data but it would be nice to have some sort of function that would quickly tell your program the simple orientation of the device. All in all, a great product, with the same consistently high quality I've come to associate with all of the Byte Works' products.