Hornady Reloading Guide vs Engineering Toolbox ET
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hornady Reloading Guide
Access comprehensive reloading data for hundreds of cartridges and bullets, based on extensive testing. Purchase individual data sets, the entire current edition, or subscribe for continuous updates and full access to all data on your mobile device.
- Reloading data for 200+ cartridges
- Data for 300+ bullets
- Safe data based on controlled testing
- Purchase individual cartridge data
- Purchase full handbook edition
- Subscription for all data and updates
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Derived from extensive testing by Hornady Manufacturing Company, this app includes reloading data for over 200 cartridges and 300 bullets. Under carefully controlled conditions using the components and test equipment specified, we report only data that proved safe in our research. Users have the ability to purchase data for individual cartridges, purchase the whole current edition of the handbook, or subscribe and receive the entire handbook plus more. Subscription provides access to all handbook data on your mobile device and real updates for all new data without waiting for the new handbook publication to be produced.
Engineering Toolbox ET
This utility app provides quick access to essential electronic formulas and calculations. It helps users easily determine resistor color codes, capacitor codes, perform numeric base conversions, and calculate parallel resistors and LED resistors without needing to memorize complex equations.
- Resistor color code lookup
- Capacitor code lookup
- Numeric base conversion
- Parallel resistors calculation
- LED resistor calculation
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Engineering Toolbox is a lightweight app that you'll be able to use to apply basic electronic formulas, without the need to remember them! Such as: resistor color codes, capacitor codes, numeric base conversion, parallel resistors calculation, LED resistor calculation, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hornady Reloading Guide at Free against Engineering Toolbox ET's $1.99. Hornady Reloading Guide also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (17K vs 1). Engineering Toolbox ET's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Hornady Reloading Guide is free to download; Engineering Toolbox ET costs $1.99 up front. Hornady Reloading Guide sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Engineering Toolbox ET asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hornady Reloading Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hornady Reloading Guide has 17K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Hornady Reloading Guide | Engineering Toolbox ET |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (17K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hornady | Ricardo Torres |
Customer experience
Hornady Reloading Guide
Engineering Toolbox ET
Bugs and requests
Hornady Reloading Guide
Reported bugs
4 issues- Purchased data disappearing or inaccessible
- Unable to log in or access account
- Blank screens and unknown errors
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Offline access to data
- Improved range log with more details
- Seamless integration with in-app purchases
- Support for more powder and bullet options
Engineering Toolbox ET
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hornady Reloading Guide
- Reloading Guide Subscription$19.991 Year
- Hornady Point$0.99
- 20 Hornady Points$19.99
Engineering Toolbox ET
No in-app purchases
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