ProtoPie Player vs UX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProtoPie Player
This app allows you to view, test, and experience interactive prototypes created with a companion desktop tool. Access prototypes from the cloud or save them locally for offline use on your mobile devices. It enables easy sharing and testing of designs with colleagues, clients, or users.
- View and test prototypes
- Access cloud prototypes
- Save prototypes locally
- Use native device capabilities
- Control playback speed
- Share prototypes easily
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ProtoPie Player is a free companion app to ProtoPie Studio, a code-free prototyping tool on macOS & Windows. View, experience, and test prototypes on iOS and iPadOS easily. Access prototypes in the Cloud, save prototypes locally, and more—all from your iPhone or iPad. Ideal for yourself, your colleagues, stakeholders, clients, or users. ProtoPie Player is perfect for quickly testing prototypes made with ProtoPie, getting prototypes in anyone’s hands, and (remote) usability testing. To open prototypes on your iPhone or iPad, connect ProtoPie Player to ProtoPie Studio via WiFi or USB. Or just log in with your ProtoPie account to access your prototypes in the cloud. Also, it’s possible to open any prototype on your iPhone or iPad with a shareable link or shared via any other third-party solution—without connecting to ProtoPie Studio. With ProtoPie Player, you can: - Open any prototypes—shared via ProtoPie Cloud, email, Google Drive, Slack, or any other messaging and storage solution. - Use the iPhone and iPad their native capabilities in prototypes, e.g., camera, gyroscope, microphone, and more. - Control the play speed: slow down the prototype to experience the interactions with more detail. - Access prototypes in ProtoPie Cloud. - Save prototypes locally for offline usage ProtoPie Player is part of the ProtoPie ecosystem. ProtoPie is a prototyping tool to easily turn your interaction design ideas into realistic prototypes. Create interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT. Get started with ProtoPie today!
UX
This app helps user experience designers time tasks during usability tests. Create custom tests and tasks for different apps, then record and capture screenshots of task completion times. Results are saved to your device's photo album.
- Task timing for usability tests
- Customizable test creation
- Task sequence setup
- Screenshot capture of results
- Results saved to photo album
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UX is an app to assist user experience designers time how long it takes users to complete tasks during usability tests. Create tests for each app your are testing and then create and customize the tasks you will have the user go through in your product. When you start the test you will be able to time how long the user takes to complete each task. At the end of the test you can click "capture" to take a screen shot of the times it took that user to conduct each task. These screenshots are stored in the UX photo album of your iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ProtoPie Player at 4.0 against UX's 3.0. ProtoPie Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 23 months). UX's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.2). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. UX sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. ProtoPie Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
ProtoPie Player holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ProtoPie Player has 27 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of ProtoPie Player's written reviews are positive against 50% of UX's.
ProtoPie Player ships an update every 5 weeks, UX every 23 months. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | ProtoPie Player | UX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (27 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 23 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio XID | A & A Design Inc. |
Customer experience
ProtoPie Player
UX
In-app purchases
ProtoPie Player
No in-app purchases
UX
- Pro$6.997 Days
- Pro3 Days trial$29.993 Months
- Pro3 Days trial$49.991 Year
