RegExp
Loshadki, LLC Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
RegExp is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by Loshadki, LLC. Requires iOS 18.1. Updated September 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 10 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v3.0.0
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About RegExp
RegExp is a regular expression tester for developers, on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Write a pattern, paste your text, and see every match and capture group as you type, with the same engine your code uses. Six flavors, real engines: • Swift Regex • NSRegularExpression (Objective-C and Swift) • JavaScript (ECMAScript) • PCRE2, the engine of PHP • Go and Go (POSIX) Write and understand patterns: • Matches and capture groups highlighted in the test string, with their names • Errors marked right in the pattern, unbalanced brackets too • Substitution with each engine's replacement syntax, and a list mode that extracts one line per match • A quick reference of each flavor's syntax: select an item to insert it • Copy the pattern as ready-to-use Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, Go or PHP code • Jump between matches; slow patterns time out instead of freezing the app Keep your patterns: • Sessions and folders, your own regex notebook, synced with iCloud across your devices • Search, duplicate, export and import sessions, or open one in its own window • Shortcuts actions, Spotlight search, and a Services menu item on the Mac for selected text Most of RegExp is free. RegExp Pro, a one-time purchase that works with Family Sharing, adds: • Explain: what every part of a pattern does, in plain language, and what the selected flavor doesn't support • Test cases: strings a pattern must or must not match, checked on every run • Apple Intelligence: write a pattern from a description, or get a summary of one (on supported devices) • The advanced options of every flavor RegExp speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Made by an independent developer. Questions or ideas? Write to [email protected].
What’s new
Version 3.0.0 · Updated September 24, 2026
RegExp 3.0 is the biggest update yet. • RegExp now speaks German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese • PCRE2, the engine of PHP, on every device; Go now runs on iPhone and iPad too • Copy the pattern as ready-to-use Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript, Go or PHP code • A quick reference of each flavor's syntax: select an item to insert it • List mode: expand the substitution once per match to extract text • Errors are marked in the pattern, unbalanced brackets too • Jump between matches; the match under the cursor shows in the results • Search sessions, duplicate them, open them in their own window, export and import them • Shortcuts actions, Spotlight search, and a Services menu item on the Mac • Slow patterns time out instead of freezing the app, plus many fixes New in Pro: • Explain: what every part of a pattern does, in plain language • Test cases: strings a pattern must or must not match, checked on every run • Apple Intelligence (on supported devices): write a pattern from a description, or get a summary of one
App privacy
The developer, Loshadki, LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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