Micro vs Scrutiny
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Enhance workplace effectiveness
- Improve team collaboration
- Foster innovation and new ideas
- Maximize impact in key moments
- Increase frequency of insights
- Develop practical, unique skills
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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.
Scrutiny
Discover and organize academic research effortlessly on your phone. Search over 300 million papers from trusted sources in seconds and swipe through results to save or skip. Streamline your workflow and stay productive anywhere, anytime.
- Search 300+ million research papers
- Swipe to save or skip results
- Organize academic research
- Streamline research workflow
- Mobile research on the go
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300M+ Papers. Zero Hassle. Smarter Research Starts Here. Say goodbye to clunky databases and hello to Scrutiny — the fastest, easiest way to discover and organize academic research from your phone. Whether you're a student, researcher, or just deep in a Wikipedia rabbit hole, Scrutiny lets you: Search 300+ million research papers from trusted sources in seconds Swipe through results like you're browsing social media — right to save, left to skip Streamline your workflow and focus only on what matters Stay productive anywhere, anytime — no more waiting to get back to your laptop Start collecting ideas, citations, and insights faster than ever. Scrutiny turns research into a habit you’ll actually enjoy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scrutiny at every 3 weeks against Micro's every 2 months. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Micro ships an update every 2 months, Scrutiny every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Micro | Scrutiny |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Nowhere Group Limited | Marc Plunkett |
Customer experience
Micro
Scrutiny
In-app purchases
Micro
No in-app purchases
Scrutiny
No in-app purchases
