Comparison

Vibration Meter, seismograph vs iScan

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

Head to head
About

Vibration Meter, seismograph

This application uses your phone's accelerometer to measure and record vibrations from various sources, including earthquakes and everyday objects. It displays ground motion on a graph and uses an instrumental intensity scale for analysis. You can also monitor and share your measurement results.

Highlights
  • Measures vibration strength
  • Detects seismic waves
  • Uses accelerometer for analysis
  • Displays ground motion graph
  • Utilizes instrumental intensity scale
  • Monitors and shares results
Features
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Vibration meter is an app called seismograph or seismometer, which measures the strength of vibration, quakes, earthquakes, vibrations of the human body or any other objects around you. Our app allows for detecting and recording of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches and other sources of vibration and shocks. Accelerometer in your mobile phone is used for detection of vibrations and measurement analysis. Graph presents a record of the ground motion at a measuring point. Ground movement or an object is presented as a function of time in the three Cartesian axes, with the z axis perpendicular to the Earth's surface and the x- and y- axes parallel to the surface. Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake. It measures the effects of an earthquake and it is distinct from the moment of magnitude. Richter Scale assigns a magnitude number to quantify the energy released by an earthquake. Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) is equal to the maximum ground acceleration that occurred during earthquake shaking at location. PGA is equal to the amplitude of the largest absolute acceleration recorded on an accelerogram at a site during a particular earthquake. In this app we use Instrumental Intensity Scale (developed by The United States Geological Survey) which maps peak ground acceleration and peak ground velocity on an intensity scale similar to the felt Mercalli Scale. These values are used to create shake maps by seismologists on around the world. Mercalli Intensity Scale distinguishes the following levels of vibration and impact damage: I. Instrumental - Not felt. Recorded by seismographs. II. Weak - Felt only on top floors of high buildings. III. Slight - Felt indoors, like a passing light truck. IV. Moderate - Windows, doors rattle. Like passing train. V. Rather Strong - Felt by all. Small objects upset. VI. Strong - Books off shelves. Trees shake. Damage. VII. Very Strong - Difficult to stand. Buildings damaged. VIII. Destructive - Significant damage. Trees broken. IX. Violent - General panic. Serious damage. Cracks. X. Intense - Most buildings destroyed. Rails bent. XI. Extreme - Rails bent greatly. Pipelines destroyed. XII. Catastrophic - Near total damage. This app allows you monitor and share the results of your measurements with other users. Measure and monitor all vibration and shocks using smartphone or tablet!

About

iScan

Features
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iScan-D is a document scanner for anything from receipts and contracts to posters — no fixed page size. Capture, de-skew, OCR, search, and export all happen on your device. There's no sign-in, and your images and recognized text are never sent to a server. ■ Two scan modes • Normal scan: capture receipts, business cards, postcards, and everyday documents one sheet at a time. • Long scan: move the camera slowly downward to stitch a very long receipt into a single tall image. ■ Import from your photo library Already have a photo? Select one or several and bring them in as pages — no need to reshoot. ■ Precise cropping and de-skewing • The document's four corners are detected automatically. Fine-tune them by hand, with a magnifier so your finger never hides the corner. • A perspective transform straightens the page so a photo taken at an angle looks like it was shot head-on. • Corner cropping and a final rectangular crop are separate steps. ■ Finishing touches • Rotate, rectangular crop, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, grayscale. • One-tap "Enhance" removes shadows and uneven lighting, whitens the background, and makes text crisp. • Brightness, contrast, and saturation preview in real time and can each be reset individually. ■ OCR in 9 languages Japanese, English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified / Traditional). OCR runs on device using Apple's technology, and the language follows your app language automatically. Recognized text is fully editable, and pages that fail recognition can be typed in by hand. ■ Find it, share it • Full-text search across titles, notes, and OCR text, with a snippet of the matching text. • PDF export embeds an invisible text layer so you can search inside the exported PDF. • Export as PDF, JPEG, or PNG, with paper sizes (A4, A5, B5, Letter, custom) and image sizes (original, large, medium, small, custom). • Combine multiple pages into one PDF in order and share it. ■ Organize and manage • Give each document a title and a note; the title is generated from the capture date. • The original image is always kept, so you can redo corner adjustment, perspective, editing, and OCR even after saving. • Deleted documents go to Trash. They can be restored for 10 days, then are permanently deleted automatically. You can also delete permanently right away. ■ Privacy • Images, OCR results, and document information are never sent off device. • All key processing, including OCR, works on device and offline. • No account or sign-in. • No cloud sync or built-in backup. ■ Requirements Supports the latest iOS and the two previous major versions. Works on iPhone and iPad. Note: This app shows a banner ad (Google AdMob) at the bottom of the document list.

Screenshots

Vibration Meter, seismograph4 screens
iScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iScan at none against Vibration Meter, seismograph's 1. iScan also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). Vibration Meter, seismograph's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. Vibration Meter, seismograph sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iScan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vibration Meter, seismograph ships an update every 7 months, iScan every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Vibration Meter, seismograph versus iScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVibration Meter, seismographiScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (729 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings729 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperExaMobile S.A.kenta isomi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Vibration Meter, seismograph

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99
None

iScan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vibration Meter, seismograph free?
Vibration Meter, seismograph is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iScan free?
iScan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vibration Meter, seismograph or iScan have ads?
iScan shows ads; Vibration Meter, seismograph does not.
Which is updated more often, Vibration Meter, seismograph or iScan?
Vibration Meter, seismograph ships an update every 7 months, and iScan every 6 days. Most recently, Vibration Meter, seismograph was updated on October 29, 2026 and iScan on October 18, 2026.

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