BRICKS Foundation vs UI Tracer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BRICKS Foundation
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BRICKS is a tools for visual designer and technicians to collaboratively design and development process, data rendering, deployment, and security. Combining designer-friendly workflows, deep technical access, full production quality content viewport, BRICKS enables you to iterate your designs faster and more efficiently. BRICKS allow the designer to see the installation working in context, making it easy to visualize how the content will look, feel and behave on a single output or even when clustered across multiple outputs and machines. BRICKS offer the most reliable, scalable, industry-tested architecture available. BRICKS provide unlimited display stitching system, any numbers of display can be setup by your imagination. BRICKS is easy to setup Text, Picture, Video, Chart, Web-view, and Camera Inputs
UI Tracer
This app allows developers to preview various SwiftUI view styles without recompiling code. It offers comparisons across multiple Apple platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS, streamlining the design process.
- Preview SwiftUI view styles
- Compare across iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS
- No recompilation needed
- Cross-platform code compatibility
- Extensible view library
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When you are developing your app using SwiftUI, it is really time consuming to compare all possible styles of buttons, list etc to choose one fits best. This app help you check all possible options for SwiftUI's views without recompiling. Compare how they look like on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and MacOS. Same code for all platforms where possible. The list of views will be extended.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BRICKS Foundation at Free against UI Tracer's $2.99. BRICKS Foundation also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). UI Tracer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (6 vs 3). On ads 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
BRICKS Foundation is free to download; UI Tracer costs $2.99 up front. UI Tracer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. BRICKS Foundation asks for nothing beyond the download.
BRICKS Foundation ships an update weekly, UI Tracer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BRICKS Foundation | UI Tracer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 242 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRICKS DISPLAY INC. | Leonid Liadveikin |
In-app purchases
BRICKS Foundation
No in-app purchases
UI Tracer
- Tip$0.99
- Donation$4.99
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