Sensors Toolbox vs Sensors NM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sensors Toolbox
Access and visualize data from all your smartphone's sensors in real time. Collect information from accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, barometers, and more, then convert it into easy-to-read graphs. This app offers a clean, intuitive interface for comprehensive sensor analysis.
- Real-time sensor data collection
- Accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS
- Barometer, decibel meter, metal detector
- Compass functionality
- Intuitive graph visualization
- User-friendly interface
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Sensor toolbox makes the most of all the sensors in your smartphone. With a user-friendly interface and easy to read layout, Sensor Multitool - Toolbox allows you to collect data in real time for any and all sensors on your phone. Convert the data into easy to read graphs with a detailed readout from each sensor. This app contains everything you need: an accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS Data, barometer, decibel meter, metal detector, compass, and much more. This app follows all material design guidelines, meaning the app is clean and simple to use This app uses intuitive graphs to create clean, orderly graphs of all data collected.
Sensors NM
Monitor IoT devices and sensors, both public and your own. Visualize data with custom dashboards and historical plots. Receive important notifications and access aviation weather reports.
- Monitor public and private IoT sensors
- Map view of public sensors
- Create custom sensor dashboards
- Plot sensor data over time
- Receive project notifications
- View aviation METAR reports
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The client application of the IoT Project Public monitoring (narodmon.com). The application allows you to monitor your own, as well as public devices and sensors of the Public monitoring project: - Find public sensors on the map; - Add desired sensors to favorites; - Create dashboards of any type of sensors; - Plot selected sensors for different periods; - Receive notifications and messages from the project. The app also allows viewing METAR reports — aviation weather summaries from airports that include temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and direction, visibility, cloud cover, precipitation, as well as other data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sensors NM at 5.0 against Sensors Toolbox's 4.2. Sensors NM also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). Sensors Toolbox's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (134 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Sensors NM sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Sensors Toolbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sensors NM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sensors Toolbox has 134 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Sensors Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 63% of Sensors NM's.
Sensors Toolbox ships an update every 7 months, Sensors NM every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sensors Toolbox | Sensors NM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (134 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.8% of reviews | 62.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 134 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Neal | Sergey Krasavin |
Customer experience
Sensors Toolbox
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In-app purchases
Sensors Toolbox
No in-app purchases
Sensors NM
- Donation (Level 1)$0.99
- Small tips$1.99
- Donation (Level 2)$1.99
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- Donation (Level 3)$3.99
- Medium tips$4.99
- Donation (Level 4)$5.99
- Huge tips$10.99
- Donation (Level 5)$10.99
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