nice Cabin Control vs Pool Captain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
nice Cabin Control
Control your aircraft's cabin environment remotely from your personal device. Adjust media, lighting, and temperature for a personalized experience. Requires Lufthansa Technik's nice(R) Cabin Management System.
- Remote cabin environment control
- Media playback control
- Lighting adjustment
- Temperature zone control
- Wireless LAN connectivity
- Personal device integration
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The "nice Cabin" App provides you with a very handy and intuitive remote control interface for your aircraft cabin. It lets you control all aspects of your business jet cabin environment directly from your preferred iPad / iPhone / iPod touch via the onboard Wireless LAN from your seat or wherever you are in the cabin. "nice Cabin" will let you select and control the media and cabin management system. You will be able to control your personal audio and video program and cabin environment, such as lights and zone temperature. The App turns your personal device into a fully-fledged wireless controller for the nice(R) system. *** ATTENTION *** The "nice Cabin" App is only useable on Business Jets / VIP aircraft that have Lufthansa Technik's nice(R) Cabin Management System installed. Without a correctly configured nice(R) system "nice Cabin" will not provide any functions! For further information please contact us. *** ATTENTION ***
Pool Captain
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Your handicap is what the league assigned you. Your scoring pace is what you are actually doing. Pool Captain logs your matches and works out the level you are really playing at. Yours, and everyone else's on the roster. Seven tools. No account, no ads, no tracking, and it all works in airplane mode. Every screen links to a plain-language guide explaining how its number is worked out, including where a figure is a calibrated estimate rather than a rule off the scoresheet. THE CAPTAIN'S VIEW Log a match in about twenty seconds: innings, defensive shots, points, match points, win or loss. The app turns that into a scoring pace, then grades the pace against the level each player was assigned. • Every player on one axis, so an SL3 and an SL7 can be read side by side • Color says who is pushing up, who is holding and who is soft • Graded on the best 10 of the last 20, and it flags which matches count • That is your lineup conversation, settled before you get to the table APA 9 BALL LOGGING Your pace is points per inning. • Charted against the skill bands, so you can see the level you are tracking toward • Defensive shots taken out of innings, the way the scoresheet does it (probably?) APA 8 BALL LOGGING • Innings per win, innings per rack, and win percentage • Innings shared between both players, handled properly • The same best-10-of-20 window as 9-ball BREAK SPEED: YOUR PHONE AS A RADAR GUN Put the phone on the rail and break normally. All it needs is how far the cue ball travelled and how long it took. • The mic times two sounds, tip on cue ball then cue ball on rack, and turns the gap into mph or km/h • Reads the room's noise floor first, so a loud bar does not fool it (I hope anyway) • Shows you the waveform it heard, with a marker on each sound. Drag one if it guessed wrong • Warns you when it is not sure, rather than quietly reporting a wrong number • Save each one and your break becomes a trend: best, average, and a speed-over-time chart APA 8 BALL: WHAT THE MATCHUP IS WORTH Set two skill levels and the app fills in the rest. • The race each player is on, off the Equalizer chart • Single-game odds, and every score line with its own probability • The match points each line pays, so you can see expected value FARGO MATCH • The same odds engine, driven off two Fargo ratings • Race lengths you set yourself, up to a race to 50 • A BCA-style games handicap, so you can propose a fair spot (17 point style) TABLE DIFFICULTY (Credit: Dr. Dave Alciatore) A bar box and a tournament table are not the same game. • Four tape-measure numbers give a Table Difficulty Factor • A verdict from Too Easy to Too Tough • A plain sentence like "about 12% tougher than a standard table" • Save every room you play in and see them ranked on one bar WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES On your phone. • No sign-up, no network requests of its own, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting • Logs, break history and saved tables sit in the app's private storage • Every log exports to a JSON file you can restore on another phone. This is handy if you are changing team or want to analyze your team using AI The microphone is used only on the break-speed screen, and only while it is listening. Audio is analyzed in memory to find two impacts; no recording is saved or transmitted. What persists is a number. A NOTE ON THE NUMBERS The race charts and 9-ball point requirements are transcribed from APA's own materials. The skill-level bands the comparison screens grade you against are calibrated estimates from match data, not official figures, and the guide says so wherever they are used. Pool Captain is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the American Poolplayers Association, FargoRate, or any league operator or rating service. Table difficulty ratings use Dr. Dave Alciatore's Table Difficulty Factor system. (Who seems like a great guy who probably wouldn't force me to remove this.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pool Captain at every 9 days against nice Cabin Control's every 5 months. nice Cabin Control's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.4). On price, 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.
nice Cabin Control ships an update every 5 months, Pool Captain every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | nice Cabin Control | Pool Captain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lufthansa Technik AG - Innovation | Joe Eaton |
In-app purchases
nice Cabin Control
No in-app purchases
Pool Captain
No in-app purchases
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