Comparison

Thinklabs Wave vs HD Steth

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

Head to head
About

Thinklabs Wave

This app allows users to capture, visualize, edit, and share body sounds using a digital stethoscope. It offers advanced features for medical professionals and students, including live broadcasting and annotation tools for educational and research purposes.

Highlights
  • Capture body sounds
  • Visualize heart and lung sounds
  • Edit and annotate recordings
  • Share recordings via email
  • Live sound broadcasting
  • Phonocardiogram and heat map spectrogram
  • Customizable waveform notes
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Thinklabs Wave - the mobile recording app for your Thinklabs Digital Stethoscope. Unlock the full potential of your stethoscope with Thinklabs Wave, a recording app with robust features for education, learning, research, and telemedicine. Capture, edit, and share sounds on the fly! Features: * Capture body sounds * Visualize heart and lung sounds * Edit and annotate recordings * Share your recordings via email * Store recordings on your mobile device * Broadcast live sounds to a group of listeners ...easily and conveniently! Powerful special features built into Wave: * Three different views for capturing sounds, including Body View, Thinklabs Wave lets you label and save sounds in the location where you captured your recording; * A phonocardiogram enables you to visualize the sound wave as you’re recording; * A heat map spectrogram appears below the phonocardiogram for pattern recognition; * An editing toolbox turns your recordings into educational resources and research tools. * The phonocardiogram can be annotated with S1, S2, and ! markers to call out areas of concern * Write custom notes directly on the waveform * A snapshot function allows you to isolate a small portion of your recording * Share recorded sounds via email or other commonly used apps. * Launch Thinklabs.live within the Wave app. Thinklabs.live - The free, web-based audio channel for streaming stethoscope sounds is built right into Wave app. Broadcast or listen to stethoscope sounds, streamed live from across the room or across the globe, simply and easily --- for free! Joining a broadcast is as simple as launching your browser and putting in a PIN number. Features: * Audio quality - never worry about stethoscope audio transmissions again! * Groups - Any number of people can join your private broadcast. You have complete control over who can join your session. * Parallel Channel - No matter what video conferencing system you have, Thinklabs.live provides a dedicated audio channel for heart and lung sounds. * Platforms - Thinklabs.live can be used on multiple platforms.

About

HD Steth

This medical app pairs with a smart stethoscope to visualize heart sounds and ECG waveforms simultaneously. It aids in early detection of cardiac anomalies by offering smart amplification and recording capabilities for professional review.

Highlights
  • Integrated ECG and heart sound visualization
  • Smart amplification for auscultation
  • Bluetooth connectivity to smart stethoscope
  • Record and replay cardiac data
  • Adjustable gain and amplification
  • Multiple auscultation modes (Bell, Diaphragm, Lung)
Features
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HD Steth is a Smart Stethoscope with Integrated ECG. It's leading-edge technology aids in the early detection of cardiac anomalies. It employs smart amplification for best in class dynamic auscultation. The HD App is designed to be used in conjunction with the HD Steth smart stethoscope. HD App connects to any HD Steth via standard Bluetooth protocol. It is a state of the art app that can perform many functions that are required as part of cardiac testing. It allows for medical professionals, caregivers and users to visualise heart sounds as well as see the electrical waveform of an EKG. Both waveforms are displayed simultaneously. The interface is designed to user-friendly and many functions can be done intuitively. The amplification and gain of both waveforms can be adjusted dynamically. Test data can be recorded on the fly and saved to the local device. Recorded data can be replayed or reviewed by specialists and users. The information can be saved to a patient's medical record. Disclaimer: HD Steth is an electronic Stethoscope meant to assist a qualified clinician to capture, record and replay heart sounds and electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) rhythm. It is intended to be used on one patient at a time. Heart sounds (PCG) and 1-lead EKG rhythm are acquired and displayed simultaneously on an accompanying mobile application on a hand-held smart device like a phone or tablet. The waveforms can be recorded and saved on the smart device on which the app is running. The device has 3 auscultation modes – Bell, Diaphragm and Lung (Wide). These modes and volume levels can be changed by the press of a button. The EKG rhythm recording assists in getting an indicative Heart Rate (HR) that gets displayed on a display panel on the device. Regulatory Clearance Notice This app connects to medical hardware that has received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is intended for use only within the United States. The medical hardware and associated features are not cleared or approved for clinical use in other jurisdictions.The device must be used in a clinical setting by trained and qualified personnel only. HD Steth is not intended to be used as a diagnostic device. It does not supersede the judgement of a qualified clinician. The device is intended to aid the physician in the evaluation of PCG and EKG rhythm. The clinicians are completely responsible for reviewing and interpreting the results, along with all other relevant information, when making a referral decision.

Screenshots

Thinklabs Wave4 screens
HD Steth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Thinklabs Wave at 33% against HD Steth's 0%. Thinklabs Wave also leads on rating (2.4 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Thinklabs Wave holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thinklabs Wave has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Thinklabs Wave's written reviews are positive against 0% of HD Steth's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Thinklabs Wave versus HD Steth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinklabs WaveHD Steth
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (7 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB22 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperThinklabs Medical LLCHD Medical, Inc

Customer experience

Thinklabs Wave

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

HD Steth

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Thinklabs Wave

No in-app purchases

None

HD Steth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thinklabs Wave free?
Thinklabs Wave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HD Steth free?
HD Steth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Thinklabs Wave or HD Steth?
Thinklabs Wave is rated higher. Thinklabs Wave averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while HD Steth averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Thinklabs Wave or HD Steth have ads?
Neither Thinklabs Wave nor HD Steth shows ads.

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