SmashX Design vs Datacolor MobileQC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmashX Design
Read full descriptionHide full description
SmashX Design lifts every design project to the next level. It’s your digital color card, and it fits in any pocket. The color visualiser and easy project filing enable the professional to act as a color consultant, present various designs and manage the projects in a highly effective manner.
Datacolor MobileQC
This app helps professionals in industries like ink, paint, and textiles to identify and control color quality. It pairs with a specific device to create color projects, evaluate samples with pass/fail indicators, and analyze color plots and spectral curves.
- Implement color quality control checkpoints
- Create and store color projects
- Evaluate color samples with pass/fail indicators
- Analyze color plots and spectral curves
- Customize illuminants, observers, and tolerances
- Set color space and readings per batch
Read full descriptionHide full description
Whether you work with inks, paints, textiles, plastics..., identifying color problems early on can save you time and money. But evaluating color by eye can be subjective and very dependent on the person and the environment. Datacolor MobileQC enables you to easily implement color quality control checkpoints in your color workflow. Paired with ColorReader Spectro, you can create & store color projects by customer or job and easily evaluate color samples with pass/fail indicators. You can further evaluate colors with color plots and spectral curves. You can also customize your color quality control process by setting primary, secondary, and tertiary illuminants & observers, tolerances, color space, and number of readings per batch. As the leading color solution provider, Datacolor's passion for getting color right has helped more than a million customers deliver accurate color.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Datacolor MobileQC at none against SmashX Design's shown. Datacolor MobileQC also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmashX Design | Datacolor MobileQC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmashX B.V. | Datacolor Inc. |
In-app purchases
SmashX Design
No in-app purchases
Datacolor MobileQC
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SmashX Design free?
Is Datacolor MobileQC free?
Do SmashX Design or Datacolor MobileQC have ads?
Which is updated more often, SmashX Design or Datacolor MobileQC?
Other comparisons















