Comparison

Stereonet Mobile vs ECEToolkit

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

ECEToolkit

Features
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A minimalistic, powerful, and effective electrical engineering toolkit! Contains many sub-apps to help students and professionals with electrical engineering specifics. Meant as a toolkit for engineers all around the world for the small intricacies and tedious activities in Electrical Engineering.

Screenshots

Stereonet Mobile4 screens
ECEToolkit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Stereonet Mobile at 15.0 against ECEToolkit's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stereonet Mobile ships an update monthly, ECEToolkit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Stereonet Mobile versus ECEToolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStereonet MobileECEToolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard AllmendingerJason Todd Gentry

In-app purchases

None

Stereonet Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

ECEToolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stereonet Mobile free?
Stereonet Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ECEToolkit free?
ECEToolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stereonet Mobile or ECEToolkit have ads?
Neither Stereonet Mobile nor ECEToolkit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stereonet Mobile or ECEToolkit?
Stereonet Mobile ships an update monthly, and ECEToolkit every 3 weeks. Most recently, Stereonet Mobile was updated on November 2, 2026 and ECEToolkit on October 30, 2026.

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