Ignition Perspective vs Flowserve FlowSync
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.
Flowserve FlowSync
Control and monitor MXb Smart Actuators remotely via Bluetooth from an iOS tablet. View detailed diagnostics, capture screenshots for reports, and create/save actuator configurations for easy deployment.
- Remote actuator control via Bluetooth
- View advanced diagnostics
- Capture screenshots for reports
- Create and save actuator configurations
- Push configurations to multiple actuators
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This is a Bluetooth utility designed to allow Flowserve Customer to control their MXb Smart Actuators from their IOS Tablet. This is designed to help customers who have units in hard to reach areas as they can control the unit from a distance. The large screen of a tablet also helps customers view advanced diagnostics items in a detailed way and capture screenshots to create performance reports. The app also allows customers to create Actuator Configurations which can be saved to the tablet and then pushed to one or multiple actuators without ever moving the knobs on the units.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flowserve FlowSync at 5.0 against Ignition Perspective's 4.4. Flowserve FlowSync also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Ignition Perspective's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Flowserve FlowSync 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, Flowserve FlowSync every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ignition Perspective | Flowserve FlowSync |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Inductive Automation LLC | Flowserve Corp |
Customer experience
Ignition Perspective
Flowserve FlowSync
In-app purchases
Ignition Perspective
No in-app purchases
Flowserve FlowSync
No in-app purchases
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