Comparison

Stereonet Mobile vs MiddSpark

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

Head to head
About

Stereonet Mobile

This app assists geologists in collecting, visualizing, and analyzing geological orientation data. It offers automatic data entry using device sensors and augmented reality, manual input options, and various plotting and calculation tools for geological features.

Highlights
  • Automatic data entry via device orientation
  • Augmented reality for strike and dip measurement
  • Manual data entry via stereonet or text fields
  • Plotting of lines and planes with user-defined types
  • Basic geological calculations (rotations, angles, slope stability)
  • Plotting of mean vectors, rose diagrams, and contour lines
  • View plots from any orientation
Features
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Stereonet Mobile is designed to help you collect, visualize, and analyze geological orientation data. It is a companion to my Stereonet program for desktop computers. As such I have tried to incorporate the basic functionality of that program, taking into account the inherent limitations of mobile devices. Some of the basic tasks that one can perform with Stereonet Mobile include: • Provide automatic data entry as a geologist's compass by reading the iOS device orientation and converting it to strike and dip of planes and/or trend and plunge of lines. It is the only geology compass app that can use augmented reality to record the strike and dip of planes using the sighting method and the device camera. • Provide manual data entry via either tapping and dragging on the stereonet or by typing values into text fields • Plot lines and planes, which can be tagged using one of as many user defined data types (e.g., bedding, cleavage, slickensides, etc.) as you want • Carry out basic calculations such as: rotations about any axis, planes from poles or poles from planes, measure angles between lines and between planes, and basic slope stability calculations • Plot mean vectors, cylindrical best fits, rose diagrams, and contour lines. • View the plots from any orientation, not just looking straight down into the lower hemisphere • See the location of a datum on a map or satellite image (if you have an internet connection) • Show realtime changes to the stereonet projection to help students understand the geometry of the device better • Provide basic input and output of data using standard iOS conventions • Works on iPhones or iPads. The program will work on iPods or iPads lacking a cellular data connection but those devices have fewer sensors and thus cannot be used in automatic data collection mode.

About

MiddSpark

Discover campus events and ways to participate. Filter by organization or activity, and add events to your personal calendar to stay informed about campus life.

Highlights
  • Sort events by campus organizations
  • Find events by activity tags
  • Add events to your calendar
  • Discover campus involvement opportunities
  • Powered by Presence platform
Features
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Use the Middlebury College Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

Stereonet Mobile4 screens
MiddSpark3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MiddSpark at 5.0 against Stereonet Mobile's 4.5. MiddSpark also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Stereonet Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MiddSpark holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stereonet Mobile versus MiddSpark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStereonet MobileMiddSpark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard AllmendingerCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

Stereonet Mobile

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

MiddSpark

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stereonet Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

MiddSpark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stereonet Mobile free?
Stereonet Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MiddSpark free?
MiddSpark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stereonet Mobile or MiddSpark?
MiddSpark is rated higher. Stereonet Mobile averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while MiddSpark averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Stereonet Mobile or MiddSpark have ads?
Neither Stereonet Mobile nor MiddSpark shows ads.

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