Comparison

Inspect vs Roommate Albert

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Inspect

Examine the TLS certificate chain of any website directly on your iPhone or iPad. Understand trust status, protocols, and security signals. Export certificates for further analysis or sharing.

Highlights
  • Inspect live TLS certificate chains
  • Review trust status and security signals
  • Browse and export certificates
  • Safari extension for current page inspection
  • Action extension for shared URLs
  • Home Screen widget for Live Monitor
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Inspect lets you inspect a site's TLS certificate chain on iPhone and iPad. Paste a host name or HTTPS URL, review trust state, protocol, certificate chain, and security signals, then export any certificate in the chain. Features: - Inspect live TLS certificate chains - Review trust status, protocol, validity, SANs, key usage, fingerprints, and extensions - Surface risky signals like expired certificates, weak algorithms, broken chain linkage, and possible interception products - Browse every certificate in the presented chain - Export DER certificates for sharing or debugging - Inspect the current page in Safari with the Safari extension - Inspect shared URLs and page data from other apps with the action extension - Check Live Monitor status from the Home Screen widget

About

Roommate Albert

Effortlessly track utility meter readings by simply taking photos. The app automatically detects values and timestamps from your pictures, offering suggestions for easy confirmation. It supports various meter types and keeps all data securely on your device.

Highlights
  • Read meter values from photos
  • Automatic value and timestamp detection
  • Supports electricity, gas, and water meters
  • Handles day/night tariffs
  • On-device data processing
  • Export data to CSV
Features
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Meter readings from the photos you take anyway. Snap your electricity, gas or water meter with the Camera app whenever you walk past it. Roommate Albert later finds those photos in your library, reads the value and the time each was taken, and hands you a ready-made suggestion. One tap confirms it. HOW IT WORKS • Snap it: with the Camera app, Roommate Albert doesn’t have to be open. A photo from three months ago is found just like one from today. • Find it: in the Review tab, tap Search Photos. The app compares new photos with each meter’s reference photo and reads the serial number, so it tells apart two identical meters in the same basement. • Confirm it: every suggestion arrives filled in with meter, register, value and the date from the photo. A value lower than an earlier one is flagged for correction, because meters never run backwards. FOR YOUR METERS • Electricity, gas, cold water, hot water and heat • Day and night tariff meters as two registers (HT and NT) • Meter replacement: add the new meter as a new device, earlier readings stay, and the statistics show both in one series • Monthly consumption statistics • Enter a reading without a photo by hand under Enter Reading YOUR DATA • Everything stays on your iPhone: photos, recognition and readings are processed on the device. No server, no account. • Nothing enters your history before you confirm it. • Export as a ZIP with a CSV file for spreadsheets and the photos of all readings. • Import data from the previous version under Settings → Import, as often as you like, without duplicates. Reading with the on-device language model requires iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence; without it, text recognition reads on its own. Did the app misread a value or miss a meter? Write to us from Settings → Contact Support.

Screenshots

Inspect4 screens
Roommate Albert4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Inspect at Free against Roommate Albert's $3.99. Inspect also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 55%) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Inspect is free to download; Roommate Albert costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inspect ships an update every 3 weeks, Roommate Albert every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Inspect versus Roommate Albert: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInspectRoommate Albert
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.5 (126 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews — better55.0% of reviews
Number of ratings126 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTao XuJulian Kahnert

Customer experience

Inspect

All ratings125 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.5%

Roommate Albert

Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Inspect

No in-app purchases

None

Roommate Albert

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inspect free?
Inspect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roommate Albert free?
Roommate Albert costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Inspect or Roommate Albert have ads?
Neither Inspect nor Roommate Albert shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inspect or Roommate Albert?
Inspect ships an update every 3 weeks, and Roommate Albert every 2 weeks. Most recently, Inspect was updated on October 16, 2026 and Roommate Albert on October 20, 2026.

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