BarCounting Smart Scale vs Vision Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BarCounting Smart Scale
Manage your beverage inventory with this app and a smart scale. It helps count wine and liquor bottles and generates spreadsheet files for accounting and POS systems.
- Beverage inventory count
- Wine and liquor bottle tracking
- Spreadsheet file generation
- Accounting software export
- POS system integration
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BarCounting and the Smart Chef Scale help you to perform inventory count of wine and liquor bottles, and generate spreadsheet files for exporting to all types of accounting/POS software.
Vision Explorer
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This app showcases the power of Computer Vision algorithms developed by the Icare research Institute. You have a choice between 4 main decoders: - Barcodes: 1D and 2D symbologies (retail, industrial and transportation) - Swiss payments: Payment slips and QR-bill - License plates: 26 European countries car plates (ANPR) - Identity documents: Passports, ID cards, driving licenses We aim to offer the best-in-class solution to capture visual data with speed and accuracy. We focus on mobile devices, painstakingly developing decoders that perform directly on the video stream, 100% offline and carefully profiled to minimize memory pressure. If you're interested in integrating Computer Vision into your software, you might love our SDK!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BarCounting Smart Scale at every 3 weeks against Vision Explorer's every 12 months. BarCounting Smart Scale also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, 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.
BarCounting Smart Scale ships an update every 3 weeks, Vision Explorer every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BarCounting Smart Scale | Vision Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ReFleX Wireless Inc. | Icare Institut |
In-app purchases
BarCounting Smart Scale
No in-app purchases
Vision Explorer
No in-app purchases
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