# View Source

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1041817284](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1041817284)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1041817284`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Roman Tomjak
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 3.40 / 5 (61 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2017-08-03
- **First published:** 2015-09-28
- **Size:** 16 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/view-source/id1041817284)

## Description

View Source is a browser extension and standalone app that shows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with syntax highlighting and a fast search. It lets developers and curious minds inspect the source code of any website directly in the browser or as a separate app.

Use it from Safari or as a standalone tool to learn how pages are built. For feature requests or issues, tweet @r00m.

## Rankings

- #182,062 — Overall
- #2 — source code
- #23 — source
- #46 — web scraping

## Review summary

View Source is a free, easy-to-use tool for viewing website source code and integrates smoothly with Safari via the Share Sheet. Users praise its simplicity and usefulness for quick on-the-go viewing. The most common drawbacks are lack of robust copy/paste (especially selecting all), occasional crashes or reliability issues, and trouble loading pages behind authentication or with login. The built-in search is also seen as weak. Overall, it fills a useful niche but would benefit from improvements in copying, reliability, and authenticated-page handling.

### Pros

- Free
- Does what it says: view page source, simple to use
- Integrates with Safari/Share Sheet to load page source from Safari
- Easy to install and understand with a clean UI

### Cons

- Cannot copy or select all the entire source; copy to clipboard is missing or broken
- Occasional crashes / reliability issues
- Pages behind authentication may not load or retrieve the actual page
- Search feature is clunky or missing (cannot search within page)

## Similar extensions and apps

- [View Source Code](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6757370812) — 1.00 / 5
- [ViewSource+](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6756984224)
- [HTML Viewer: View Source](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6746666386) — 4.60 / 5
- [Source Code Master](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1054846513) — 3.30 / 5
- [SourceView Pro - Web Inspector](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6737245127)
- [Source Viewer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id308126298) — 5.00 / 5
- [Srcfari: view html source code](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id805903147) — 4.00 / 5
- [HTMLSource](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1661026537) — 3.00 / 5
- [HTML Viewer Pro](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1521187909) — 3.90 / 5
- [View Source Premier](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1425213172) — 4.10 / 5
- [Source Viewer Lite](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id508441852) — 1.10 / 5
- [Source Code Reader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id511639148) — 4.90 / 5

---

Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1041817284)