RiteFinder vs Open Channel Flow Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RiteFinder
Manage your rental inventory with this app. View product details, track locations with GPS and geofencing, and monitor rental expenses with key performance indicators. Customize data and easily contact your sales representative.
- View rental inventory by product type
- Detailed product information
- GPS tracking and geofencing
- Rental expense monitoring (KPI)
- Customizable data elements
- One-touch contact for sales rep
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RiteFinder by Rain for Rent helps you manage your rental inventory. You can view your rental inventory by product type, view details about each product, view a map indicating the location of products equipped with GPS including customized geofencing and more. The app will help you manage your rental expenses by showing a key performance indicator (KPI) for time on rent. Custom data elements allow you to tailor the information to fit your needs. You can easily call or email your sales rep in one touch from within the app as well. RiteFinder by Rain for Rent is your mobile rental inventory partner. Rain for Rent…Liquid Ingenuity
Open Channel Flow Lite
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Open Channel Flow Lite is the free edition of Open Channel Flow Pro. It has every feature of the Pro version, for small channels. CHANNEL SHAPES • Rectangular • Trapezoidal • Circular • Natural (irregular cross-section, with overbank roughness) • Triangular • Parabolic SOLVE FOR • Discharge, water depth, bed slope, and the channel width or pipe diameter, using Manning's equation RESULTS • Flow area, wetted perimeter, hydraulic radius, velocity, Froude number and flow regime • Critical depth, specific energy, alternate and sequent depths • Discharge rating curve and specific energy charts MORE TOOLS • Water surface profiles by the direct step method, from a control depth • Efficient Section: size the best section for a design discharge • Manning's n picker • Metric and English units • Worksheets to save and reopen your calculations • PDF reports to share • Built-in documentation and usage manual • iPhone and iPad LIMITS OF THE LITE VERSION • Discharge up to 0.5 m³/s (17.65 ft³/s) • Water depth in a circular channel up to 0.6 m (1.96 ft) • Trapezoidal side slope of 1:1 only Open Channel Flow Pro removes these limits. No account and no ads. Your worksheets stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RiteFinder at every 5 months against Open Channel Flow Lite's every 13 months. RiteFinder also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RiteFinder ships an update every 5 months, Open Channel Flow Lite every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RiteFinder | Open Channel Flow Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WESTERN OILFIELDS SUPPLY CO INC | Alexius Academia |
In-app purchases
RiteFinder
No in-app purchases
Open Channel Flow Lite
No in-app purchases
Questions
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