ULS Inventory Manager vs HOBOconnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ULS Inventory Manager
This app streamlines inventory management for labs by offering automated scanning, ordering, and tracking of supplies. It helps reduce costs, boost productivity, and provides data for informed supply decisions. Manage stock levels and replenishment efficiently from a single mobile platform.
- Automated inventory scanning
- Replenishment ordering
- Stock tracking and receiving
- Configurable stocking levels
- Product scanning for counting
- Supply cost reduction
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ULS Inventory Manager provides flexible, configurable options to help you track your inventory. It connects you with the supplies you need to help reduce inventory costs, improve productivity, and deliver critical data that allows you to make informed supply management decisions. The ULS Inventory Manager mobile app uses an intuitive, highly automated system to make managing inventory quick and easy. By using the mobile app to scan and order products, you’ll minimize the time and money spent on managing your lab supplies. The mobile app helps you be more productive by providing one simple place to scan, replenish, track, and receive inventory. It’s designed to make inventory management easy and accurate, and includes different functions to meet your needs, including scanning to count and take stock, replenishment ordering and receiving. Inventory can be managed to align with organizational goals on maximum and minimum stocking levels. Please contact inventorymanager.support@thermofisher.com for app support.
HOBOconnect
Wirelessly configure, start, and download data from HOBO MX data loggers via Bluetooth. View, analyze, and export recorded data in various formats for further use in other applications.
- Wireless Bluetooth communication with HOBO MX loggers
- Configure logger settings (name, password, rate, alarms)
- Monitor logger status (memory, battery)
- Download and view recorded data
- Data analysis in graphical and list formats
- Export data as CSV, TXT, XLSX, and HOBO files
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HOBOconnect is designed to communicate wirelessly via Bluetooth Low Energy to the HOBO® MX data loggers. You can configure and start the data logger, download the recorded data, store and analyze the data. The data can be viewed in both graphical and list formats and also exported and shared to other programs including Numbers, Excel and HOBOware®. Features: * Wirelessly communicate to the HOBO® MX data loggers * Internet connection not required to use HOBOconnect * Set data logger's name, password, logging rate, alarm threshold, start & stop time * Check logger’s status included memory used and battery life * Clear audible alarms (for models with this feature) * Page the data logger * Manage data files with groups * Download and view data * Zoom in and out of the graph with gestures * Export and Share data as a CSV, TXT, XLSX and HOBO files Compatible Data Loggers * HOBO® MX1100 Series Temp/RH/CO2/Light/Analog Data Loggers * HOBO® MX2001 Water Level data logger * HOBO® MX100 Temperature data logger * HOBO® MX2200 Series Water Temp Data Loggers * HOBO® MX2300 Series Temp/RH/Soil Moisture data loggers * HOBO® MX2500 Series pH data loggers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ULS Inventory Manager at 3.0 against HOBOconnect's 2.2. HOBOconnect's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
ULS Inventory Manager holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 29 respectively.
ULS Inventory Manager ships an update every 2 months, HOBOconnect every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ULS Inventory Manager | HOBOconnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) — better | 2.2 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 8.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Onset Computer Corporation |
Customer experience
ULS Inventory Manager
HOBOconnect
In-app purchases
ULS Inventory Manager
No in-app purchases
HOBOconnect
No in-app purchases
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