Comparison

Competence vs FDK360

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

Head to head
About

Competence

This app helps organizations measure and enhance the knowledge, skills, and performance of their business staff. It supports employee performance reviews and personal development through monitoring and control, offering three core areas: measurement, CPD, and evidence storage.

Highlights
  • Measure individual knowledge, skills, and performance
  • Employee performance reviews and improvement tracking
  • Continuous Professional Development (CPD) capability
  • Evidence storage for eportfolios and CVs
  • Flexible framework for staff competence measurement
  • Supports self, professional, and employer assessments
  • Insightful reporting at individual, group, and establishment levels
Features
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Competence is an app for measuring and improving the individual knowledge, skills and performance of business staff across any type of organisation. It has clear relevance to sports coaches, learners progress in education, education tutors, nursing or any skilled profession or sector. It provides an excellent approach for employee performance reviews and performance improvement through direction, monitoring and control of continuing personal development. Competence includes 3 main application areas – Competence measurement, a fully-featured CPD capability and a Mylibrary area for storing evidence submitted, eportfolio, personal CV and career development information. It has a fully flexible and definable framework for measuring competence of different types of staff at different levels and a full range of scoring methods. It also supports self-assessment, professional assessments and employer assessments. Competence is a mobile-first app supporting iOS smartphones and tablets with immediate, practical and effective recording of assessments, CPD and supporting evidence. Reporting is highly effective and insightful at individual, group and establishment level. Benefits of using Competence include: - Objective and consistent approach to measuring and improving staff knowledge, skills and competence
 - Practical input of assessment scores, comments and evidence
 - Simple identification of static, underperforming & overperforming staff
 - Interventions are focused on the detailed criteria needing to be improved - Goal setting, targets and CPD monitoring encourage competence improvement.

About

FDK360

Features
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FDK360-Compensate allows inspectors to login to conduct, view and manage reports of fire door compensation installation. All elements of reports can be handled from within the app, and the app runs on iOS on iPhone and iPad devices.

Screenshots

Competence3 screens
FDK3603 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Competence at fortnightly against FDK360's monthly. FDK360's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Competence ships an update fortnightly, FDK360 monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
Competence versus FDK360: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompetenceFDK360
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyFortnightly β€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size63 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Education OfficeM&W Media Limited

In-app purchases

None

Competence

No in-app purchases

None

FDK360

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Competence free?
Competence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FDK360 free?
FDK360 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Competence or FDK360 have ads?
Neither Competence nor FDK360 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Competence or FDK360?
Competence ships an update fortnightly, and FDK360 monthly. Most recently, Competence was updated on September 12, 2026 and FDK360 on September 15, 2026.

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