SPS Smart Production Solutions vs Hecate Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
SPS Smart Production Solutions
This app serves as an official guide for trade show visitors, providing offline access to exhibitor information, event schedules, and fairground maps. It facilitates networking, ticket management, and personalized event planning.
- Offline exhibitor and event access
- Digital ticket and business card functionality
- Advanced exhibitor search and filtering
- Interactive fairground map with Quick Finder
- Personalized event scheduling and favorites
- In-app networking and messaging
- QR code scanning for contacts
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The official guide for visitors to the SPS β Smart Production Solutions Access all official information and stay informed at all times. Even offline, you can browse exhibitors, explore the map of the fairgrounds, and discover events. The app offers the following features: My ticket: Upload your online ticket to the app for entry and use it as a digital business card. Exhibitor search: Search for companies and products with advanced filtering and sorting options. View contacts and exhibitor appointments. Add photos or notes to exhibitors and share them if needed. Mark exhibitors as βvisitedβ. Fairground: View exhibitor booth details. Find your favorites quickly on hall level using the Quick Finder. Events: Discover all sessions of our conference program during the event. Add events to your personal calendar or create your own favorites list. Add photos or notes to events and share them if needed. Mark events as βvisitedβ. Networking: Connect with exhibitor contacts and other show attendees. Filter by areas of interest and message potential contacts directly. News: Stay informed with our press releases and social media posts. App Menu: Find information on opening hours, travel, parking, and additional services, as well as privacy policy, terms of use, and tracking settings. Favorites: View your saved companies and events (sign in required). Scanner: Scan QR codes from exhibitors or visitor badges and save them to your contacts. App content is updated continuously. Some features may become available shortly before the event. Please send your feedback to apps@mesago.com
Hecate Capture
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Hecate captures physical objects against a PROFILE β a configurable flow of scans and fields β places them on the map, and streams each record over MQTT to the broker you choose. Nothing about your domain is hard-coded: change the profile and the same app serves forklifts, fire extinguishers, network sockets or archaeological finds. No new build, no new app. THE ONLY THING YOU NEED IS AN MQTT BROKER Hecate requires no backend system. The one network dependency is the MQTT broker you already control β on site or in the cloud. No developer server, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Your data never touches anyone else's infrastructure. NOT A SILO You decide which profiles you create and what role captured assets play in your operation. Everything arrives at your broker in one uniform, self-describing envelope β so any downstream system you choose (dashboard, historian, ERP bridge, Unified Namespace) can subscribe and use the data. The app ends at the broker; the meaning is yours. CAPTURE, VALIDATED AT THE SOURCE β’ Scan barcodes and QR codes with the camera, or from a photo β’ Profile-defined fields with validation at capture time β bad data never leaves the device β’ Every record carries its GPS position β’ Notes and structured values per profile step WORKS OFFLINE A durable outbox stores captured assets and drains automatically on reconnect. A "sent" ping (optional) confirms broker delivery. BUILT FOR THE FIELD Guided first-run journey, per-screen tips, QR-based broker provisioning (the QR never contains a password β credentials live only in the device Keychain), TLS to the broker, structured on-device logs. A companion app shows your assets arriving live: Hecate Viewer β one app for iPhone and iPad. SUBSCRIPTION (OPTIONAL) Hecate Capture Pro lifts the free-tier quantity limits β unlimited captures per day, several broker configurations, profiles with more than five steps. It is an auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or yearly and billed to your Apple account. It renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the current period ends; you manage or cancel it in your Apple account settings. The free tier never expires. Should this project end, we will say so, stop selling new subscriptions and let running ones expire β your data stays on your own broker. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mmorath.github.io/hecate/privacy/capture/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SPS Smart Production Solutions at none against Hecate Capture's 2. Hecate Capture's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hecate Capture sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SPS Smart Production Solutions asks for nothing beyond the download.
SPS Smart Production Solutions ships an update every 2 months, Hecate Capture weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPS Smart Production Solutions | Hecate Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly β better |
| Ads | Yes | No β better |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH | Matthias MORATH |
In-app purchases
SPS Smart Production Solutions
No in-app purchases
Hecate Capture
- Capture Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Capture Pro (Yearly)$44.991 Year
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