RIDGID Thermal vs tCamView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RIDGID Thermal
Connect to Wi-Fi enabled thermal imagers to transfer, analyze, and organize thermal images on your smartphone or tablet. Easily add measurements, annotations, and adjust color palettes before saving and sharing your findings.
- Wi-Fi image transfer
- Thermal image analysis
- Spot measurements
- Image annotations
- Temperature display
- Color palette adjustment
- Image sharing
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RIDGID Thermal works exclusively with RT-5x, RT-7x and RT-9x Wi-Fi enabled thermal imagers from RIDGID. The app allows seamless transfer of thermal images from the imager to your smartphone or tablet for analysis, organization and sharing. Create multiple spot measurements within an image, easily make annotations, and show the max and min temperatures within an area. It’s easy to navigate between the visual image and the thermal image and well adjust the thermal color palette displayed. Save images and analysis to your photo library and quickly share with others.
tCamView
Connect to a wireless thermal imaging camera to view and save thermal images. Adjust camera settings and export images for sharing. Requires a compatible camera hardware to view live feeds.
- Connect to tCam-Mini
- View thermal images
- Save radiometric data
- Export JPEG images
- Configure camera parameters
- Use with or without camera hardware
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Use your iPhone or iPad to connect to thehttps://store.groupgets.com/products/tcam-mini open source tCam-Mini wireless thermal imaging camera designed by danjuliodesigns, LLC and available at Group Gets. View thermal images captured by the long-wave infrared radiation (LWIR) sensor in a variety of palettes designed to tease out different details. Save radiometric data files that can be shared on a Mac with the Desktop application. Export jpeg images to Photos, Messages or Email. Configure tCam-Mini's operating parameters such as AGC, Emissivity and Gain to match your needs. Note: This application uses Wifi to communicate with tCam-Mini and requires a tCam-Mini to display or save live images. It can be used without a tCam-Mini to view and export saved images. You can buy a tCam-Mini from Group Gets: https://store.groupgets.com/products/tcam-mini Or build your own using the design in Dan Julio's github repository: https://github.com/danjulio/lepton/tree/master/ESP32/tCam-Mini
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: tCamView at 5.0 against RIDGID Thermal's 1.8. tCamView also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months) and device support (3 vs 1). RIDGID Thermal's advantage is ratings volume (128 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
tCamView holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RIDGID Thermal has 128 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RIDGID Thermal ships an update every 9 months, tCamView every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RIDGID Thermal | tCamView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (128 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIDGID Software Solutions | danjuliodesigns LLC |
Customer experience
RIDGID Thermal
tCamView
Bugs and requests
RIDGID Thermal
Reported bugs
8 issues- App connects to network without permission
- App requests location access
- App doesn't take photos
- App doesn't detect heat
- App shows pre-taken photos
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- App black screen on launch
- App can't import photos
- App can't connect camera to wifi
tCamView
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RIDGID Thermal
No in-app purchases
tCamView
No in-app purchases
Questions
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