Comparison

Temp Stick vs Kompressed

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

Head to head
About

Temp Stick

Access all features of your sensor remotely. View real-time readings and historical data from your mobile device. Customize alert rules and message settings for notifications.

Highlights
  • View sensor readings
  • Access historical data
  • Manage alert rules
  • Customize message settings
  • Remote sensor access
Features
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This app gives you access to all the features available for your Temp Stick sensor. Login from your mobile device to view sensor readings and history. Manage and customize alert trigger rules and message settings. If you would like to just try the app, login with username 'demo' and password 'demo'.

About

Kompressed

This app compresses various file types, including photos, videos, and documents, to fit specific data budgets for transmission over low-bandwidth connections. It offers flexible size setting options and ensures data integrity through verification before allowing a compression ratio.

Highlights
  • Byte budget compression
  • Photo, video, voice memo compression
  • Data file compression
  • Multiple size setting methods
  • Binary-search quality encoder
  • Re-encoding for video
  • Presets for specific links
Features
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Kompressed gives you a byte budget instead of a quality slider, then finds the best photo, video, voice memo or data file that fits inside it. For every link that was never meant to carry pictures. WHEN THE CONNECTION IS THE PROBLEM Hotel and campground wifi, a shared satellite terminal, one bar of LTE, a Meshtastic mesh, HF, packet, Iridium SBD. On a link like that, a 4 MB photo is not slow — it never arrives. Kompressed makes it 24 KB and tells you how long that will take to send. Flying on slow WiFi on an airline but want to get the data out, Kompressed can help you with that. Say the size three ways: pick a radio and a transmit window and let the arithmetic hand you the budget, type a plain 200 KB, or set quality and bitrate by hand. Then it works backwards. Stills binary-search encoder quality to land just under the budget, giving up resolution only when quality alone cannot get there. Video encodes, measures, corrects and re-encodes until the file actually fits — because a bitrate setting is a request, not a promise. MESHTASTIC AND OTHER TINY LINKS Ships with presets for Meshtastic thumbnails, VARA HF recon photos, Iridium SBD single bursts and a one-QR handoff, so a net can agree on one set of numbers and export them as JSON. Text armor sends numbered Base64 blocks with a CRC, so the far end knows block 7 of 12 never arrived and asks for exactly that. Reed-Solomon FEC packets cover one-way links where there is nobody to ask. QR covers phone to phone with no network at all. TAK Results can even leave as an ATAK data package — a MANIFEST and a CoT event built from the photo's own EXIF position — so the picture lands on the map at its coordinates instead of in a downloads folder. One tap of the share sheet reaches ATAK, iTAK, TAKAware, Messages, AirDrop or Files. NOT JUST PHOTOS GPS tracks 246 KB to 2.0 KB with waypoint names intact. Telemetry and CSV 211 KB to 12 KB, cell for cell identical. Scanned pages 414 KB to 3.5 KB. Screenshots, short reports, any other file. Every package is decoded again and compared against the original before a ratio is allowed to be the headline. EVERYTHING RUNS ON THE PHONE No upload, no account, no server, no network calls of any kind. It works in airplane mode, in a valley, on a boat. What you compress never leaves the device until you choose where it goes — which is the point, on a connection even if it is the thinnest of IP pipes.

Screenshots

Temp Stick2 screens
Kompressed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Temp Stick at Free against Kompressed's $1.99. Temp Stick also leads on ratings volume (89 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Kompressed's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Temp Stick is free to download; Kompressed costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kompressed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Temp Stick has 89 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Temp Stick ships an update every 6 weeks, Kompressed weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Temp Stick versus Kompressed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTemp StickKompressed
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating3.7 (89 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings89 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIdealSciencesMARSHALL TYLER FRITH

Customer experience

Temp Stick

All ratings89 ratings
Positive67.4%
Neutral2.2%
Negative30.3%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative46.5%

Kompressed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Temp Stick

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • App crashes when adding new stick
  • App crashes constantly
  • Inconsistent connectivity
  • App crashes when trying to update Wi-Fi
  • App crashes when trying to add a new stick
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  • App keeps crashing
  • App crashes constantly, WiFi unable to be updated
  • App will just 'grey out'
  • Will NOT connect to a hot spot
  • App crashes and lost connectivity
  • App cannot log me in
  • App no longer works after update
  • White screen after update
  • Cannot get past app prompt
  • App does not open on iPad (white screen)
  • Blank white screen and blank gray screen
  • App does not seem to be able to download history
  • Does NOT send the requested alerts
  • Does NOT 'remember me'

Requested features

12 requests
  • Pull measurement on demand
  • Integration with Google Home/Alexa
  • Option to pull measurement on demand
  • Apple Watch link
  • Add data download to the app
Show 7 more
  • User modifiable temperature range on graph
  • Program device to report readings 'right now'
  • Mobile notifications (SMS and email only)
  • Get data into other apps
  • Alert for low battery
  • Instant read feature
  • Dark mode option

Kompressed

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Temp Stick

No in-app purchases

None

Kompressed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Temp Stick free?
Temp Stick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kompressed free?
Kompressed costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Temp Stick or Kompressed?
Kompressed is rated higher. Temp Stick averages 3.7 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while Kompressed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Temp Stick or Kompressed have ads?
Neither Temp Stick nor Kompressed shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Temp Stick or Kompressed?
Temp Stick ships an update every 6 weeks, and Kompressed weekly. Most recently, Temp Stick was updated on October 5, 2026 and Kompressed on October 4, 2026.

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