DoodleConnect vs Microscope Resolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DoodleConnect
Monitor your child's educational development across multiple learning applications. Stay informed about their achievements, progress through the curriculum, and receive real-time updates on their learning journey.
- Instant progress notifications
- View latest achievements
- Track stars earned
- Follow curriculum progress
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Track your child's progress across all four Doodle apps with DoodleConnect! With the help of DoodleConnect, you can get involved with your child's learning journey like never before. ▶ Key features • Receive instant notifications about their progress • View their latest achievements and see how many stars they've earned • Follow their progress through the curriculum DoodleConnect is free for all Doodle users, whether you have a home or school subscription.
Microscope Resolution
Calculate microscope objective lens resolution and brightness. Match lenses to your imaging system and check sampling frequency. Save, share, and access calculation equations.
- Calculate lateral and axial resolution
- Calculate objective brightness
- Match objective to acquisition system
- Check Nyquist sampling frequency
- Save and restore objective data
- Share objective data
- Display calculation equations
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Characterize your microscope objective lenses, see how well matched they are to your microscope's image acquisition system. The App supports both transmitted light objectives and fluorescence objectives. Input the magnification, immersion medium (air, oil, glycerol or silicone oil), NA (numerical aperture), condenser NA and wavelength of light (lambda), to calculate the lateral resolution, axial resolution and brightness of the objective. Characterize your acquisition system (camera pixel size, camera binning and additional magnification) to check if you're sampling at Nyquist frequency. Each of your objectives can be saved and easily restored, and shared with other microscopists via e-mail, MMS, Linked-In or even Facebook. The equations used for the calculations can be displayed. The sources of equations are referenced in the "Information" section. * Theoretical Resolution is calculated according Ernst Abbe's famous equation (Abbe 1873) * Actual Resolution is calculated according to ‘The Rayleigh Criterion’ * Axial Resolution of fluorescence objectives is calculated according to Inoue's chapter in Jim Pawley's “Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy” (3rd edition 2006) * Camera pixel size can be loaded from the list of cameras, if your camera is not in the list, you can enter it manually. * Select the "share" feature to share all output to e-mail, MMS or Linked-In * It doesn't matter if your microscope was made by Zeiss, Evos, Leica, Olympus, Nikon, Motic, or Meiji Techno, the principles are identical and you will find the app useful. * The list of cameras in the Camera dialog includes those made by Andor, Hamamatsu, Photometrics, PCO, QImaging, Leica, Lumenera, Olympus, Nikon, Motic and Zeiss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DoodleConnect at Free against Microscope Resolution's $1.99. DoodleConnect also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). Microscope Resolution's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 56%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, 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
DoodleConnect is free to download; Microscope Resolution costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DoodleConnect holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoodleConnect has 56 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of DoodleConnect's written reviews are positive against 100% of Microscope Resolution's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DoodleConnect ships an update every 2 months, Microscope Resolution every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoodleConnect | Microscope Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (56 ratings) — better | 3.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discovery Education Inc. | Andrew Barlow |
Customer experience
DoodleConnect
Microscope Resolution
Bugs and requests
DoodleConnect
Reported bugs
33 issues- Losing streak
- No synching between apps on different devices
- Not synching with Doodle Connect app
- Latest update ruined the app
- Can't understand children's results anymore
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- Lots of annoying little glitches
- Doesn't work on most devices
- App keeps switching off
- Update is not working
- Can't see message and screen freeze on tapping message icon
- Can't go back to view another sibling's account
- Lack accuracy
- Difficult to collate the information needed
- App won't work
- Doesn't really work
- Can only see one or none of children's progress
- Says child is on 0 day streak when they are not
- Too many glitches in system
- Doesn't record all points when signing in across different devices
- Parent app no longer works
- Last version defective
- Parent dashboard cannot log on
- Misleading info, doesn't relate to child's DM app
- Doodle Stars on DM different to parent area and parent app
- Cannot delete and reinstall because info is stored in the cloud
- Delay between parent app and DoodleMaths app
- Today's or yesterday's stars not showing in metrics
- Missing lots of data
- No longer works since update
- Latest version crap, glitchy
- Have to enter credentials regularly
- Live View never shows anything
- App is full of fundamental design flaws
Requested features
35 requests- Bring back old version
- More comprehensive initial test
- More challenging levels
- Option to add extra material for all students
- Better graphing options
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- See everything that is on the website within the app
- Add more data feed options
- Improve user experience
- Improve design
- Option to create graphs of all students
- Option to select metrics for graphing
- Improve Live View functionality
- Real-time syncing between apps and devices
- Fix streak issues
- Fix synching issues with Doodle Connect
- Allow multiple accounts under one login
- Make app more engaging after all questions are done
- Improve accuracy of reports
- Simplify setup process
- Offer combined order discounts
- Improve customer service responsiveness and helpfulness
- Fix login issues
- Improve accuracy of streaks and progress tracking
- Improve message viewing and replying
- Allow switching between sibling accounts easily
- Make app more user-friendly
- Bring back old app features
- Make app more interactive
- Improve data visualization
- Add dark mode
- Improve reporting accuracy
- Fix app freezing issues
- Improve parent app functionality
- Make app more intuitive
- Improve accuracy of Doodle Age
Microscope Resolution
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DoodleConnect
No in-app purchases
Microscope Resolution
No in-app purchases
Questions
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