Comparison

OONI Probe vs Donate Books

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

Head to head
About

OONI Probe

This app helps you detect internet censorship and surveillance systems by examining website and app blocking. It also measures your network's speed and performance, providing data that can serve as evidence of interference. All collected data is published openly to promote transparency.

Highlights
  • Examine website and app blocking
  • Measure network speed and performance
  • Detect censorship and surveillance systems
  • Collect evidence of internet censorship
  • Publish open network measurement data
  • Free and open source software
Features
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Are websites and social media apps blocked? Is your network unusually slow? Run OONI Probe to find out! With this app, you will examine the blocking of websites and instant messaging apps, measure your network's speed and performance, and check whether systems that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance are in your network. OONI Probe is developed by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software project (under The Tor Project) that aims to uncover internet censorship around the world. Since 2012, OONI’s global community has collected millions of network measurements from more than 200 countries, shedding light on multiple cases of network interference. ▶ Collect evidence of internet censorship You can check whether and how websites and instant messaging apps are blocked. The network measurement data you will collect may serve as evidence of internet censorship. ▶ Detect systems responsible for censorship and surveillance OONI Probe tests are also designed to uncover the presence of systems (middleboxes) that could be responsible for censorship and surveillance. ▶ Measure the speed and performance of your network You can measure the speed and performance of your network by running OONI's implementation of the Network Diagnostic Test (NDT). You can also measure video streaming performance with the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) test. ▶ Open data OONI publishes network measurement data because open data allows third parties to verify OONI findings, conduct independent studies, and answer other research questions. Openly publishing OONI data also helps increase transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can explore and download OONI data here: https://ooni.io/data/ ▶ Free software All OONI Probe tests (including our NDT and DASH implementations), are based on free and open source software. You can find OONI software projects on GitHub: https://github.com/ooni. Curious to learn how OONI Probe tests work? Learn more: https://ooni.io/nettest/ To receive updates from the OONI-verse, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory

About

Donate Books

This app helps you identify which books from your collection are wanted by the Internet Archive for preservation and digitization. Scan book barcodes or printed identifiers using your phone's camera to receive immediate feedback on whether to donate.

Highlights
  • Scan book barcodes
  • OCR printed identifiers
  • Camera-based scanning
  • Preservation feedback
  • Digitization matching
Features
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The Internet Archive Donate Books app helps donors determine which books from their collection to donate to the Internet Archive so they can be preserved and digitized. The app allows users to scan their book barcodes or identifiers to figure out which books to donate. Users can scan book barcodes or OCR printed identifiers in their books using their phone camera to identify their books and match to corresponding metadata. They will then receive feedback on whether the Internet Archive wants to preserve and digitize the book. The app includes modes for scanning barcodes or using OCR to scan printed identifiers. Simply place the barcode or identifier in the view of your phone camera and see a red or green response indicating whether to donate the book or not. For installation instructions, where to report bugs or request assistance, and information about physical item donations to the Internet Archive please see our help center page.

Screenshots

OONI Probe4 screens
Donate Books3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OONI Probe at 4.5 against Donate Books's 4.0. OONI Probe also leads on ratings volume (91 vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OONI Probe holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OONI Probe has 91 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of OONI Probe's written reviews are positive against 60% of Donate Books's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OONI Probe ships an update every 2 months, Donate Books every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
OONI Probe versus Donate Books: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOONI ProbeDonate Books
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (91 ratings) — better4.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings91 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Tor ProjectInternet Archive

Customer experience

OONI Probe

All ratings88 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive58.1%
Neutral12.9%
Negative29.0%

Donate Books

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

OONI Probe

No in-app purchases

None

Donate Books

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OONI Probe free?
OONI Probe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Donate Books free?
Donate Books is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OONI Probe or Donate Books?
OONI Probe is rated higher. OONI Probe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while Donate Books averages 4.0 from 7 ratings.
Do OONI Probe or Donate Books have ads?
Neither OONI Probe nor Donate Books shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OONI Probe or Donate Books?
OONI Probe ships an update every 2 months, and Donate Books every 4 months. Most recently, OONI Probe was updated on October 24, 2026 and Donate Books on October 24, 2026.

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