Comparison

Micro vs Shooglebox

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

Head to head
About

Micro

Develop practical skills to enhance workplace effectiveness and collaboration. This app offers unique techniques for maximizing impact, improving team interactions, and fostering innovation. Large organizations leverage these skills to drive frequent insights and breakthroughs.

Highlights
  • Enhance workplace effectiveness
  • Improve team collaboration
  • Foster innovation and new ideas
  • Maximize impact in key moments
  • Increase frequency of insights
  • Develop practical, unique skills
Features
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A set of practical and unique skills that help you to intervene in key moments at work - maximising your effectiveness, your quality of contact, and your ability to think and do new things together with your team. Large organisations use these Micro-Skills at scale in order to increase the frequency of insight and breakthrough throughout their business.

About

Shooglebox

This app helps individuals and teams collect and analyze content from various sources, transforming it into shareable insights. It's ideal for spotting social media trends, conducting research, and collaborating on projects.

Highlights
  • Gather content from multiple apps
  • Explore diverse content types
  • Collaborate with teams
  • Spot social media trends
  • Create shareable outputs
  • Organize content into cards
Features
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Shooglebox helps teams and individuals gather and explore content and insights from multiple sources – and create inspiring at-a-glance outputs to share with others. Marketing and PR teams use Shooglebox service to spot, understand and act on fast-moving TikTok trends – and tap into what their customers are seeing, saying and doing across social media. Researchers, writers and creators use the Shooglebox iPhone and iPad app to save content directly from other apps – Safari, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, X, YouTube, Photos, Maps and more – and build on the things they gather. Shooglebox turns everything you gather into cards with an at-a-glance front and full material, embeds and notes on the back. You can use the iOS app to review and edit your cards – or switch to a web browser on a larger-screen device to explore them and see the bigger picture. Shooglebox is an indispensable tool for: • Gathering and building on research material fast • Exploring different types of content in one place • Collaborating across marketing, PR and other teams • Spotting emerging TikTok and social trends • Discovering insights from social conversations • Getting your heads round hot topics and opportunities • Reviewing live social feeds to track hot topics • Creating inspiring outputs to share with others

Screenshots

Micro4 screens
Shooglebox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Micro at 5.0 against Shooglebox's 4.5. Shooglebox's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Micro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shooglebox has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Micro ships an update every 2 months, Shooglebox every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Micro versus Shooglebox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicroShooglebox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings212 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNowhere Group LimitedIMP Media Ltd

Customer experience

Micro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Shooglebox

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

None

Micro

No in-app purchases

None

Shooglebox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Micro free?
Micro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shooglebox free?
Shooglebox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Micro or Shooglebox?
Micro is rated higher. Micro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Shooglebox averages 4.5 from 12 ratings.
Do Micro or Shooglebox have ads?
Neither Micro nor Shooglebox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Micro or Shooglebox?
Micro ships an update every 2 months, and Shooglebox every 4 weeks. Most recently, Micro was updated on September 30, 2026 and Shooglebox on October 2, 2026.

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