Digi vs Digital Electronics Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digi
Explore electronic boards in augmented reality. This app provides detailed specifications for microcontrollers, single board computers, and FPGAs to help you select the right component for your projects, from robotics to AI and IoT.
- Augmented reality board interaction
- Detailed electronic board specifications
- Microcontroller, SBC, and FPGA listings
- Project component selection assistance
- Information for robotics, AI, and IoT
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Digi-Key is proud to provide this companion app to the Make Magazine Handy Dandy Boards Guide. Use it to interact with boards in augmented reality AR and see them like you have never seen them before. It's often said, when you're looking to make a project, be sure to use the right tool for the job - this applies as much to woodworking as it does to a high-powered electronics endeavor. With that in mind, this guide is designed to help you find the perfect brain for your creation. We've gathered and listed the specs of nearly all the latest and greatest boards available now, including microcontrollers, single board computers, and FPGAs. From robotics to AI to IoT, you'll find what you need here. Dig in!
Digital Electronics Guide
This app serves as a comprehensive reference for digital electronics, covering essential theory and practical guides. It's designed for students, engineers, and hobbyists to learn and prototype digital circuits with ease. Features include detailed information on logic gates, IC families, and various digital components.
- Logic gate tutorials
- IC reference data (TTL 7400, CMOS 4000)
- Digital circuit design and prototyping
- Covers counters, flip-flops, and more
- Available in 14 languages
- Detailed tutorials and references
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Digital Electronics Guide is a powerful reference tool for electronics students, engineers, and hobbyists. Whether you're just starting out or already experienced, this app helps you design, learn, and prototype with ease. It combines essential theory with practical guides and covers key digital electronics topics, including logic gates, counters, flip-flops, and IC reference data. The app also features detailed information on popular digital IC families such as TTL 7400 and CMOS 4000 series. Perfect for quick learning or as a companion for working on electronic circuits and digital systems. Available in 14 Languages: • English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese — study in your native language! The app includes detailed tutorials and references for: • Basic logic • Families of digital chips • Universal logic elements • Elements with Schmitt trigger • Buffer elements • Flip-flops • Registers • Counters • Adders • Multiplexers • Decoders and demultiplexers • 7-segment LED drivers • Encryptors • Digital comparators • Astable CMOS Oscillators • Monostable CMOS Oscillators • Bistable CMOS Oscillators • Gated CMOS Oscillators • TTL Oscillators • 7400 series ICs • 4000 series ICs Whether you're learning, teaching, or building real-world digital circuits, Digital Electronics Pro is your trusted companion every step of the way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Digital Electronics Guide at 100% against Digi's 40%. Digital Electronics Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4). Digi's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Digital Electronics Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Digi's written reviews are positive against 100% of Digital Electronics Guide's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digi | Digital Electronics Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digi-Key Corporation | ALG Software Lab |
Customer experience
Digi
Digital Electronics Guide
In-app purchases
Digi
No in-app purchases
Digital Electronics Guide
No in-app purchases
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