Comparison

Lightning NFC vs ColdStream® Site

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lightning NFC

Features
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Lightning NFC App provides support for Cargo Data Corporation’s Lightning NFC digital temperature recorders. Once Lightning NFC App is installed, you can: • Download temperature data from Lightning NFC temperature recorders by placing the instrument back to back within 1 inch of your device’s NFC antenna (typically on the back of your NFC enabled phone or tablet). No cord required. • View the complete time stamped temperature chart up to 80 days in duration • Select a desired temperature range, view detailed reports • Add shipping documentation including PO number, carrier, commodity, etc. • Add notes for quality attributes including pulp (internal) temperature, grade scorecard, and general comments • Add up to three photographs of the shipment contents • Immediately send a link to the online temperature record to an email recipient Lightning NFC allows to upload all temperature, shipping, quality attribute data to the UpLink cloud server. Data can be retrieved online without a password at http://lightningNFC.com/. Simply enter the Lightning NFC instrument ID number in the UpLink field on the homepage. The complete temperature can be viewed, printed, and/or downloaded from the website.

About

ColdStream® Site

Features
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The ColdStream Site app is the companion mobile application to the core, desktop version of the ColdStream Site web portal. From the convenience of a smartphone, the app allows users to receive push notifications, view alarmed events, and enter corrective actions for those alarmed events. A level of user management is available that allows users to customize how they choose to receive alerts on their smartphone. • Download the ColdStream Site Mobile App to receive alert events across all temperature sensors in a facility and complete corrective action checklists. • See what a difference it makes when you have timely access to actionable alerts with our mobile app.  • Quickly take action on temperature excursions in the form of alert events as a responder-level user in the life sciences and foodservice industries.

Screenshots

Lightning NFC4 screens
ColdStream® Site2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ColdStream® Site at 12.4 against Lightning NFC's 15.6. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Lightning NFC versus ColdStream® Site: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightning NFCColdStream® Site
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB20 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCargo Data CorporationSensitech Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Lightning NFC

No in-app purchases

None

ColdStream® Site

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightning NFC free?
Lightning NFC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ColdStream® Site free?
ColdStream® Site is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lightning NFC or ColdStream® Site have ads?
Neither Lightning NFC nor ColdStream® Site shows ads.

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