Thingview vs HorseSafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thingview
Visualize your ThingSpeak data channels with ease. Simply input your channel ID to start viewing your data in a user-friendly interface.
- Visualize ThingSpeak channels
- Enter channel ID to view data
- Easy to use interface
- Data visualization tool
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ThingView enables you to visualize your ThingSpeak channels in an easy way, just enter the channel ID and you are ready to go.
HorseSafe
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HorseSafe is a horse monitoring solution for horse owners who can't always be with their horses and want to know they are safe and sound. It consists of a horse monitor and web app showing information about your horse and alerting you if your horse may be sick, injured, colicing, cast, or has escaped. Receive alerts for your horse and check on them anytime, anywhere: - Receive real-time notifications if your horse shows signs of illness, injury, colic, being cast, or escaping. - Acknowledge notifications. View notification & incident history: - View current and historical status of notifications & incidents. Change how you receive notifications: - Adjust your preferences. - Setup payload parameters. Visit our website and learn more about HorseSafe at www.horsesafe.cloud
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HorseSafe at Free against Thingview's $1.99. HorseSafe also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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
HorseSafe is free to download; Thingview costs $1.99 up front. Thingview sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HorseSafe asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thingview ships an update every 2 months, HorseSafe every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thingview | HorseSafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (35 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcelo Prolo | IoT Ventures Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Thingview
Reported bugs
20 issues- App closes abruptly when creating channel
- App does not open on mobile version
- Search button covered by keyboard when adding channel
- Only 3 days of data displayed
- Time scale fixed to two hours on overview screen
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- Zoom axes option has no effect
- Latest version displays graphs on left 1/3 of screen
- Display shrunk on iPad/iPhone
- Stopped using full screen, wide border on right/bottom
- Only graph/trend available, other widgets not visible
- Year button shows same data as month button
- Month and year time presets do not work
- App crashes immediately after clicking on channel
- Invalid URL error when adding channel
- App isn't working with iOS 14 after changing standard browser
- Not possible to retrieve data for a complete year
- App closes when consulting a channel
- Refresh button doesn't work and crashes app
- App crashes randomly
- Asking to purchase app again after reinstalling
Requested features
13 requests- Add status update reporting
- Add lat/long display
- Add alert/notification options
- Add widget support
- Add auto-refresh functionality
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- Add Apple Watch functionality
- Allow user-defined Y-axis max scale
- Allow plot color to follow ThingSpeak settings
- Show date along with time on X-axis
- Improve visibility of selected panel/point
- Move last reading number to bottom left
- Add dark mode option
- Add ability to set desired data amount (points or time)
HorseSafe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Thingview
- Thingview Full$1.99
HorseSafe
No in-app purchases
