Comparison

FLOWatch vs ProcessChem

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

Head to head
About

FLOWatch

This app helps manage operational data for water and wastewater treatment plants. It tracks data, manages assets, and handles work orders and compliance reporting, even in areas with limited connectivity.

Highlights
  • Track water quality data
  • Manage plant assets
  • Work order management
  • Compliance reporting
  • Offline data storage
  • Mobile and web integration
Features
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FLOWatch Operational Data Management is used to track and fulfill water and wastewater ops data, asset management, work ordering and compliance reporting. Mobile app works in conjunction with the web platform to allow plant operators to store water quality and process data from remote locations where connectivity is limited.

About

ProcessChem

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ProcessChem puts a chemical engineer's property tables, equation-of-state solvers, and unit-operation calculators in your pocket — no spreadsheet, no lookup binder, no internet connection required. PROPERTY LOOKUPS Pull density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, vapor pressure, heat of vaporization, compressibility factor, and surface tension for thousands of pure chemicals and mixtures. Hazard and safety data included: flash point, flammability limits, exposure limits, and carcinogen/GWP/ODP flags. Also covers five common polymers (HDPE, LDPE, PP, PET, PVC) by repeat-unit mass, for property lookups and the Heater case. PHASE EQUILIBRIUM & FLASH CALCULATIONS Run flash calculations across any two-property target — temperature, pressure, enthalpy, entropy, internal energy, or volume — to find the resulting phase state and composition. Powered by CoolProp's reference-quality equations of state for over 100 fluids, with a Peng-Robinson backend covering the rest. REACTIONS & EQUILIBRIUM Balance chemical reactions automatically, track excess reagent and conversion, and run full energy balances. A dedicated equilibrium solver finds multi-species reaction composition at any temperature and pressure. An electrochemistry mode computes cell voltage and electron balances for electrolysis and battery chemistry. MULTI-COMPONENT MIXTURES Peng-Robinson with ChemSep binary interaction parameters, bubble/dew point calculations, and per-component hazard data — across every mode in the app. PROCESS ENGINEERING CASES - Heater: heats or cools a batch or stream at constant pressure — give a final temperature and get the duty, or give a duty and get the temperature reached, melting and boiling included - Vessel Heater: a sealed, rigid vessel heated or cooled — finds the resulting pressure, phase and liquid level, and flags the liquid-full overpressure hazard - Fluidized Bed: finds the minimum fluidization and blow-out velocities for your gas rate and the resulting pressure drop, with reacting-bed conversion and composition in both batch and continuous-flow modes - Heat Exchanger: two streams exchange heat — give the duty or one outlet temperature and it finds the rest, refusing any pairing that would need heat to flow backwards UNITS, YOUR WAY A dedicated Units tab lets you pick your preferred unit for every quantity in the app, with a configurable Normal/Standard reference for gas-volume conversions. Save any calculation to a file in Files or iCloud Drive, so your work survives even if you delete the app. Built for process, chemical, and plant engineers, students, and anyone who needs a real thermodynamic answer faster than a lookup table can give one.

Screenshots

FLOWatch3 screens
ProcessChem3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ProcessChem at every 6 weeks against FLOWatch's every 3 months. ProcessChem also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FLOWatch ships an update every 3 months, ProcessChem every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
FLOWatch versus ProcessChem: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFLOWatchProcessChem
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB407 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFLOWatch LLCRon Mangalam Jacob

In-app purchases

None

FLOWatch

No in-app purchases

None

ProcessChem

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FLOWatch free?
FLOWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ProcessChem free?
ProcessChem is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FLOWatch or ProcessChem have ads?
Neither FLOWatch nor ProcessChem shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FLOWatch or ProcessChem?
FLOWatch ships an update every 3 months, and ProcessChem every 6 weeks. Most recently, FLOWatch was updated on November 2, 2026 and ProcessChem on October 24, 2026.

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