Ready Skills vs Optimised Mining
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ready Skills
This app streamlines the recording of on-the-job experience, particularly for vocational education. It allows students and supervisors to quickly log multiple work activities and skills development, with supervisors signing off on completed skills. This provides RTOs with higher quality data for tracking progress.
- Record on-the-job experience
- Track skills development
- Log multiple activities quickly
- Group activities into tasks
- Supervisor sign-off on skills
- Electronic logbook
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Ready Skills is the new generation App for recording on the job experience. It has been specifically designed for Vocational Education where keeping track of workplace activity is used in resulting competency. Students and their supervisors can log in and track work experience and skills development. No more logging one activity at a time – the new Ready Skills App allows students, apprentices and trainees to log multiple activities quickly, grouped into tasks. Workplace supervisors use the App to sign off on workplace skills. Quicker logging with more detail ensures that RTOs have better quality information to track skills development. Ready Skills includes multiple innovative features that will make it the premier electronic log book to use.
Optimised Mining
Prepare for mining legislation exams in Queensland and Western Australia with specialized courses. Access comprehensive study materials designed for exam success.
- Mining legislation courses
- QLD exam preparation
- WA exam preparation
- Legislation study materials
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Mining legislation prep courses QLD and WA.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Optimised Mining at 100% against Ready Skills's 13%. Optimised Mining also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Ready Skills's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Ready Skills ships an update monthly, Optimised Mining every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ready Skills | Optimised Mining |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | READYTECH HOLDINGS LIMITED | Optimised Mining |
Customer experience
Ready Skills
Optimised Mining
Bugs and requests
Ready Skills
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Optimised Mining
Requested features
1 request- Black background option
In-app purchases
Ready Skills
No in-app purchases
Optimised Mining
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Ready Skills free?
Is Optimised Mining free?
Do Ready Skills or Optimised Mining have ads?
Which is updated more often, Ready Skills or Optimised Mining?
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