Comparison

USB vs Rotor

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

Head to head
About

USB

This application connects to WIFI image transmission equipment, enabling wireless image data transfer between cameras and iOS devices. It allows for real-time, free transmission of visuals from anywhere, anytime.

Highlights
  • WIFI image transmission
  • Wireless connection to iOS devices
  • Real-time image data transfer
  • Anytime, anywhere access
  • Free wireless transmission
Features
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USB-VIEW application software is a combination of WIFI image transmission equipment using the software. with WIFI settings to achieve the camera through wireless WIFI and IOS system terminal equipment connection of application software.allows users to truly achieve anytime, anywhere,free wireless transmission of image data.

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Rotor

Features
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Rotor turns your iPhone into a working vibration analyser. Hold it against a running motor, pump, fan or gearbox and read the overall velocity in mm/s RMS, graded A to D against ISO 20816, with the machine class cited. Then it tells you what is wrong, and shows you why it thinks so. THE NUMBER IS REAL Acceleration is integrated to velocity in the frequency domain, line by line, with a high-pass cutoff. It is never cumulative-summed in the time domain, which turns sensor bias into a wandering ramp. The graded overall is summed from a rectangular-windowed spectrum so it stays Parseval-exact instead of double-counting window leakage. If that means something to you, you already know why most phone vibration apps are wrong. VERIFY IT YOURSELF Rotor ships with a self-test. It runs a signal whose answer is known analytically through the same chain a real machine goes through, and shows you measured against expected, side by side. IT NAMES THE FAULT Unbalance, misalignment, looseness, blade and vane pass, gear mesh with sidebands, belt defects and electrical faults at twice line frequency. Every verdict quotes the lines it came from and gives you the specific next step. Check the coupling cold and hot. Inspect the impeller for build-up. Cut the power and watch whether the peak vanishes. IT KNOWS YOUR MACHINE Ten presets set the ISO class, the plausible speed range, where to hold the phone and which faults happen on that kind of kit. Enter the poles and supply frequency off the nameplate and Rotor computes running speed including slip. Count the blades or gear teeth, or measure the belt, and it draws those frequencies as labelled cursors. THREE AXES AT ONCE High axial vibration relative to radial is how misalignment is told apart from unbalance, so Rotor captures all three axes and shows which is worst. IT REFUSES TO GUESS If the sensor clipped, Rotor will not grade the capture, because a clipped waveform invents harmonics that look like severe looseness. If the signal is at the noise floor it asks whether the machine is running rather than awarding a confident Zone A to a desk. If a bearing's frequencies sit above what your phone can sample, it says so, because a missing cursor is not a healthy bearing. WATCH IT GET WORSE Log a reading and it keeps the full spectrum. Next month the trend line shows the overall crossing out of green, with the ISO zone bands drawn behind it. Rotor also compares against that machine's own baseline and lists the individual lines that grew, in dB. BEARINGS, THE HARD WAY Envelope demodulation, done properly. Band-pass the bearing's resonance, take the analytic signal by Hilbert transform, transform the envelope, and the defect rate falls out of the noise. Rotor matches it against the computed BPFO, BPFI, BSF and FTF to name which part is failing, computed from the bearing geometry. FIELD BALANCING Single and two plane by the influence coefficient method. Measure, bolt on a trial weight, measure again, and Rotor solves the correction weight and angle on a polar plot. READ THE SPECTRUM Orders axis, so 1x and 2x land on integers and a bearing line visibly does not. Peak table with frequency, order and likely cause. Linear, exponential and peak-hold averaging. Selectable resolution with the capture time shown. Hanning, flat-top and uniform windows. mm/s and microns or in/s and mils, with the ISO boundaries restated in both so the toggle never changes a verdict. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on the device. No account, no cloud, no analytics, no network access at all. BE CLEAR ABOUT THE LIMITS The built-in accelerometer is usable to about 100 Hz. That covers unbalance, misalignment, looseness and ISO overall velocity on most slow and medium speed machines. It cannot see most bearing frequencies, and Rotor says so in the interface at the moment it matters rather than letting you believe a flat spectrum means a healthy bearing. That honesty is the reason to trust every other number in the app.

Screenshots

USB4 screens
Rotor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: USB at Free against Rotor's $2.99. USB also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, 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

USB is free to download; Rotor costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

USB ships an update every 5 weeks, Rotor every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
USB versus Rotor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUSBRotor
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.0 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer志强 童Matthew Mesropian

In-app purchases

None

USB

No in-app purchases

None

Rotor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is USB free?
USB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rotor free?
Rotor costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do USB or Rotor have ads?
Neither USB nor Rotor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, USB or Rotor?
USB ships an update every 5 weeks, and Rotor every 3 weeks. Most recently, USB was updated on October 15, 2026 and Rotor on October 26, 2026.

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