CONVERT UNITS vs Sardines Carpool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CONVERT UNITS
Easily convert between various units of measurement including length, weight, temperature, and currency. Features automatic currency updates, a vast selection of currencies, and customizable display options for accuracy and rounding. Optimized for multitasking on iPad and offers a beautiful dark design.
- Converts length, weight, speed, area, time, pressure, volume, power, fuel, temperature, data, and currency
- Automatic currency updates
- 160 currencies available
- Multitasking enabled for iPad
- Alphabetical quick links for units
- Customizable startup categories
- Adjustable accuracy and rounding
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CONVERT UNITS is built for the numbers a general converter treats as an afterthought: torque, pressure, viscosity, density, thermal conductivity, magnetic flux density, radioactivity, luminance. Close to 40 of its 72 categories are scientific and engineering categories, covering 685 units in total, in a fast, no-nonsense dark interface built to do one thing: give you the answer and get out of the way. Two scrolling lists, a big keypad, and a result that updates as you type. 72 CATEGORIES, 685 UNITS Torque, pressure, viscosity, density, thermal conductivity, magnetic flux density, radioactivity, luminance — plus length, weight, temperature, speed, area, volume, time, power, energy, data, fuel economy and dozens more. CURRENCY, CRYPTO AND METALS - 160 world currencies, with rates refreshed daily. - 126 cryptocurrencies. - Gold, silver, platinum and palladium. - Update rates automatically, once a day, on every launch, or only when you ask. BUILT TO BE FAST - An alphabetical index down the side of every list - jump straight to a unit instead of scrolling past hundreds. - Search every unit in every category from a single field. - Launch straight into the category you actually use and skip the home screen entirely. - Hide the categories you never touch, so the grid stays yours. PRECISION ON YOUR TERMS - Trim results by significant figures or by decimal places, whichever the spec calls for. - Significant figures keep small numbers detailed: 0.030333 at 3 figures gives 0.0303. - Decimal places line every result up on the same column: 2 places gives 13.78. - Round results up, or leave them exact. THE DETAILS - 33 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak, Malay, Indonesian, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, and Bangla. - iPhone and iPad, with a layout built for each, plus Split View so you can convert alongside another app. - Mute the keypad and lock rotation if you prefer. - A dark design with bold, readable figures. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://developer-yl.github.io/convert-units/privacy.html
Sardines Carpool
Effortlessly organize carpools directly within iMessage. Create ride polls, manage multiple vehicles, and save your car details for quick setup. Everything stays within your conversations, no accounts or servers needed.
- Create ride polls in iMessage
- Support for multi-vehicle trips
- Save custom vehicle seat layouts
- Automatic name saving
- No accounts or server reliance
- Trip scheduling with date and time
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Sardines makes organizing carpools effortless — right inside iMessage. No accounts, no downloads for your friends, no switching between apps. Just open Sardines in any conversation and start filling seats. **Create Ride Polls in Seconds** Pick your vehicle, assign a driver, add passengers to seats, and share the ride poll with your group. Everyone in the conversation can see who's riding where at a glance. **Multi-Vehicle Trips** Need more than one car? Add multiple vehicles to a single trip and assign passengers across all of them. The message preview adapts automatically — from a detailed single-car view to a compact multi-vehicle summary. **Your Vehicle Garage** Save your cars, vans, and SUVs with their exact seat layouts. Support for regular seats, shotgun, car seats, and boosters — so you always know who fits where. Switch vehicles with a tap when plans change. **Names That Stick** Sardines remembers your drivers, passengers, and trip names. The more you use it, the faster it gets. Names from rides other people send you are saved automatically too. **No Accounts. No Servers.** Everything stays in iMessage. Your ride details are encoded directly in the message — no sign-ups, no cloud storage, no tracking. It just works. **Trip Scheduling** Add a date and time to any ride so everyone knows when to be ready. **Built for Real Life** Whether it's the daily school run, a weekend trip, or coordinating rides to the game, Sardines keeps everyone on the same page without the group text chaos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sardines Carpool at none against CONVERT UNITS's shown. Sardines Carpool also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). CONVERT UNITS's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 12) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for CONVERT UNITS against 4.7 for Sardines Carpool. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CONVERT UNITS has 1.4K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of CONVERT UNITS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sardines Carpool's.
CONVERT UNITS ships an update every 6 weeks, Sardines Carpool every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CONVERT UNITS | Sardines Carpool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Adysseus | Robert Mc Cord Hoehn |
Customer experience
CONVERT UNITS
Sardines Carpool
Bugs and requests
CONVERT UNITS
Reported bugs
2 issues- App got stuck, required uninstall/reinstall to fix
- Navigation issues, unable to get back to home page
Requested features
2 requests- Option to convert between functions (length to volume)
- Remember last conversion settings for each category
Sardines Carpool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CONVERT UNITS
No in-app purchases
Sardines Carpool
No in-app purchases
Questions
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