Rainforest Connection vs FaceSensor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainforest Connection
Experience the sounds of the rainforest directly on your device. Listen to live streams from diverse locations, offering a unique connection to nature. Discover the calls of wildlife and the ambient sounds of these vital ecosystems.
- Live rainforest sound streams
- Global locations (Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica)
- Wildlife sound identification
- Connects to nature
- Nonprofit conservation focus
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Bring the rainforest to you! Listen to live streams from natural places around the world from Peru, Ecuador, and beyond! Want to hear the rain pour on the jungle leaves of Costa Rica? Curious what the call of a Gibbon monkey sounds like at dawn? Download the app and instantly connect to nature through your mobile device, anytime and anywhere. Coming soon - more rainforest livestreams and wildlife sounds! ... Rainforest Connection (RFCx) is a nonprofit organization leveraging acoustic technology to protect forests and wildlife from illegal logging, poaching, and to monitor biodiversity to better inform conservation action. Acoustics are a powerful way to understand the creatures that inhabit our living planet and the activities that threaten it. Our work takes us all over the world, and we want to share it with you! Peek inside the places we're helping partners to learn about and protect, the sounds within, and be part of the impact! Bring nature home, with Rainforest Connection.
FaceSensor
This app uses your iPhone camera and haptic feedback to alert you to the presence of people nearby. It provides tactile sensations that vary in intensity and pattern based on distance and direction, offering a discreet awareness of your surroundings.
- Detects people using iPhone camera
- Varying haptic feedback for distance
- Directional haptic patterns
- Discrete awareness of surroundings
- Apple Watch integration for reinforced feedback
- Stationary use only
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FaceSensor is an entertaining way to use haptics to provide information to a blind user of the presence of another person as viewed by the iPhone camera. It does this gently and quietly by way of tactile sensations. These sensations will vary depending on the distance to the observed individual. Farther distances result in fainter signals and closer distances result in stronger signals. Left, center, and right sectors are also differentiated by varying haptic patterns. It is the discrete way to be aware of someone nearby. The Apple Watch can also be used with FaceSensor for reinforced sector information. FaceSensor is for stationary use only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Rainforest Connection at 277 against FaceSensor's 4. FaceSensor's advantage is iOS requirement (11.4 vs 14.0). On price, rating, 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
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 — 4.8 for Rainforest Connection against 4.8 for FaceSensor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rainforest Connection has 277 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Rainforest Connection | FaceSensor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (277 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 277 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rainforest Connection | DeutschTechnology Corp. |
Customer experience
Rainforest Connection
FaceSensor
In-app purchases
Rainforest Connection
No in-app purchases
FaceSensor
No in-app purchases
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