microBIOMETER® Reader vs Find My Understudied Genes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
microBIOMETER® Reader
This application offers a rapid, on-site soil testing solution to assess microbial biomass and fungal-to-bacterial ratios. It helps users understand soil health, track the effectiveness of management practices, and support sustainable farming by monitoring changes in soil biology and carbon storage.
- On-site soil testing
- Microbial biomass analysis
- Fungal to bacterial ratio
- Track management practice effectiveness
- Monitor soil biology changes
- Cloud portal data export
- Custom project creation
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microBIOMETER® is a low cost, 20-minute on-site soil test for microbial biomass and fungal to bacterial ratio that allows you to quickly determine the health of your soil using smartphone technology. Frequent retesting will provide you with the data necessary to identify if your soil management practices are working. Quickly assess how amendments impact soil microbial biomass, ensuring your management practices are effective. Monitor changes in soil biology, increase carbon storage, and support sustainable farming practices. View, edit, and export data to Excel using our Cloud Portal. Create custom projects with our Project Management feature and share soil test results with team members.
Find My Understudied Genes
This tool assists biologists in identifying genes that are not well-researched. It allows users to filter gene lists based on various factors like research articles, expression probability, and disease associations to assess their potential for future study.
- Identify understudied genes
- Filter genes by research articles
- Analyze gene expression probability
- Check homology in model organisms
- Assess reagent availability
- Evaluate gene-disease relationships
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Find My Understudied Genes (FMUG) is a rationally-designed tool to helps biologists identify understudied genes and characterize their tractability for future research. Users submit a list of human genes (presumably from a high-throughput -omics experiment) and can filter these genes down based on a large list of factors, including: - Number of articles about gene - Probability of differential expression - Homology in model organisms - Availability of reagents - Number of articles about relationship between gene and disease and many more! More information is available at our website.
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Verdict
microBIOMETER® Reader and Find My Understudied Genes both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Find My Understudied Genes's written reviews are positive against 20% of microBIOMETER® Reader's. Find My Understudied Genes also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). microBIOMETER® Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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 — 5.0 for microBIOMETER® Reader against 5.0 for Find My Understudied Genes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: microBIOMETER® Reader has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of microBIOMETER® Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Find My Understudied Genes's.
microBIOMETER® Reader ships an update every 5 weeks, Find My Understudied Genes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 2, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | microBIOMETER® Reader | Find My Understudied Genes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Prolific Earth Sciences Corporation | Northwestern University |
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microBIOMETER® Reader
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In-app purchases
microBIOMETER® Reader
No in-app purchases
Find My Understudied Genes
No in-app purchases
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