MQuant® StripScan vs Labshare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MQuant® StripScan
This app provides digital readout for test strips, replacing manual color matching for pH and chemical concentration measurements. It offers guided measurement processes, automatic data saving, and visualization tools for enhanced analysis and traceability.
- Digital test strip readout
- Guided measurement process
- Automatic data saving
- Visualizations and analysis
- Instrumental readout
- Warning for interferences
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Use the MQuant StripScan® app for fast and reliable determination of pH or chemical concentrations in aqueous solutions using MQuant® test strips. The app guides through the measurement process, determines the measurement result by camera, and saves and visualizes measurements automatically. • No more guessing: Instrumental readout rather than color-matching by eye. • Digital precision: Reliable and reproducible results, with warnings if critical measurement interferences are detected. • Data storage and traceability: Enriched datasets are stored automatically. Forget pen and paper! • Visualizations and analyses: Organize and group your data for better clarity on your measurement results.
Labshare
This app digitizes lab inventory, allowing teams to track materials in real-time and share excess supplies with nearby labs. It uses OCR scanning for labels and facilitates intra-institution collaboration to reduce waste and ordering redundancies.
- Intra-institution collaboration
- OCR-powered label scanning
- Real-time inventory tracking
- Export to Excel
- Mobile-first design
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Labshare is a smart lab inventory management and sharing app built for research teams. Digitize your inventory with label scanning, track materials in real-time, and easily share excess supplies with nearby labs to reduce waste. Labshare is designed for lab managers, researchers, and PIs who want to save time, reduce ordering redundancies, and move beyond clunky Excel sheets. Key Features: • Intra-institution collaboration and inventory sharing • OCR-powered label scanning • Export to Excel • Mobile-first design for lab bench access • Real-time inventory tracking Labshare helps research institutions run more efficiently, sustainably, and collaboratively.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Labshare at 5.0 against MQuant® StripScan's 1.7. Labshare also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). MQuant® StripScan's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). 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.
Labshare holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MQuant® StripScan has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MQuant® StripScan ships an update every 5 months, Labshare every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 3, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MQuant® StripScan | Labshare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) | Mingyo Kang |
Customer experience
MQuant® StripScan
Labshare
In-app purchases
MQuant® StripScan
No in-app purchases
Labshare
No in-app purchases







