Adafruit AR vs Electronic Component Pinouts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adafruit AR
Explore electronics concepts in augmented reality. Visualize virtual components and see pinout overlays on real circuit boards. Learn about electronics in an interactive and engaging way.
- Virtual Adabot interaction
- Pinout overlays on boards
- Augmented reality visualization
- Electronics tips and info
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It's Adafruit in augmented reality! • Meet a virtual Adabot right on any surface • View pinout overlays on Adafruit and third-party microcontroller boards
Electronic Component Pinouts
Access an extensive offline database of over 80,000 electronic component pinouts, including chips, transistors, and microcontrollers. Quickly find information and equivalents without needing an internet connection. Users can also request new pinouts to be added.
- Offline database
- 80,000+ pinouts
- Transistors, diodes, chips
- Microcontrollers & Arduino
- Fast search
- Component equivalents
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This application provides a offline database with more than 80000 electronic component pinouts. Chips, Transistors, Diodes, Triacs, Microprocessors and a lot more. If you don't have a chip pinout, please send a feedback and we can add to our database. This app have information on transistors, triacs, diodes, memory chips, microcontrollers, Arduino Boards, shields and more! Component Pinouts is fast and does not require internet access to search. More than 23000 distinct pinouts with a lot of equivalents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Adafruit AR at Free against Electronic Component Pinouts's $4.99. Adafruit AR also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 43%). Electronic Component Pinouts's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Adafruit AR is free to download; Electronic Component Pinouts costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Adafruit AR against 4.0 for Electronic Component Pinouts. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Adafruit AR's written reviews are positive against 43% of Electronic Component Pinouts's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Adafruit AR | Electronic Component Pinouts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Adafruit Industries | Adriano Moutinho |
Customer experience
Adafruit AR
Electronic Component Pinouts
In-app purchases
Adafruit AR
No in-app purchases
Electronic Component Pinouts
No in-app purchases
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