Ignition Perspective vs RIOT SCADA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ignition Perspective
This application allows users to view and control industrial processes directly from their mobile devices. It provides responsive interfaces optimized for smartphones and tablets, enabling remote management of industrial automation systems.
- Remote process viewing
- Touch-based control
- Responsive mobile interfaces
- Industrial automation system access
- Enterprise data connectivity
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The Ignition Perspective mobile app empowers users to run Ignition Perspective sessions on their phone so they can view and control industrial processes with the touch of a finger through beautiful, responsive interfaces, optimized for mobile devices. Ignition Perspective is a module for Ignition, the world’s first unlimited industrial application platform that empowers you to connect all of the data across your entire enterprise, rapidly develop any industrial automation system, and scale your system in any way. Adding the Ignition Perspective Module to the Ignition platform gives users a rapid design environment for creating industrial web-based applications that can run anywhere: on smartphones, laptops, desktops, and overhead displays.
RIOT SCADA
This industrial control system app provides real-time production data access for Industry 4.0 environments. It integrates with various hardware to monitor wells and facilities from a single location using edge technology.
- Real-time production data access
- Industry 4.0 SCADA solution
- MQTT at the Edge technology
- Integrates with PLCs, POCs, ESPs
- Monitor wells and facilities
- Unified location for all data
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RIOT is an Industry 4.0 SCADA Solution that puts all of your production data at your fingertips. RIOT uses the latest MQTT at the Edge technology and can integrate with any PLC, POC, or ESP so you can see every well and facility in one location.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RIOT SCADA at 5.0 against Ignition Perspective's 4.4. RIOT SCADA also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). Ignition Perspective's advantage is ratings volume (25 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RIOT SCADA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ignition Perspective has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ignition Perspective ships an update every 4 months, RIOT SCADA every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ignition Perspective | RIOT SCADA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Inductive Automation LLC | Anchor 18 Logic, LLC |
Customer experience
Ignition Perspective
RIOT SCADA
In-app purchases
Ignition Perspective
No in-app purchases
RIOT SCADA
No in-app purchases
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