Comparison

Permobil QuickConfig vs SemanticMarker

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

Head to head
About

Permobil QuickConfig

This application enables sales representatives, clinicians, and service professionals to wirelessly configure and program Permobil Power Platform equipped power wheelchairs. It offers a streamlined process for managing wheelchair settings via an iPhone or iPad.

Highlights
  • Wireless wheelchair configuration
  • Program Permobil Power Platform wheelchairs
  • iPhone and iPad compatibility
  • For sales, clinical, and service professionals
Features
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Permobil QuickConfig is a wheelchair programming app which allows sales representatives, clinical, and service professionals to easily configure and program Permobil Power Platform equipped power wheelchairs wirelessly via an iPhone or iPad. The Power Platform system will be available on Permobil power wheelchairs in mid-2023.

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SemanticMarker

Features
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For summer 2026, we have added NFC functionality. You can write an NFC tag with your guest feeding URL. Anyone with a smart phone can then scan the tag and run your guest feeding site. The Bluetooth BLE discovery has been cleaned up to you won't see 2 names for the same device - after you have renamed one of your feeders or clickers. This is a limitation of iPhone where the bluetooth remembers a device the first time you "discover" it. So if you change its name (through our messages or BLE) the iPhone still thinks it's the old name. But the advertisement has the new name. So I figured out how to cache the new name and use it instead of the old (remembered) name. Hopefully this cleans up things. Support for 26.3. 2026 is the year of IoT control for my #Abilities users. Kona Currents, LLC offers a unique Remote Education and IoT processing app for creation, collection, processing, search, and messaging of optical visual markers we call Semantic Marker (R). An innovative text and optical search engine is included, along with an API for processing optical labels, barcodes and two-dimensional codes. These optical image and data files are downloadable for internal and external use. This app interacts through published API's with Cloud Computing services. The app will communicate via MQTT messaging among a suite of IoT devices, as well as using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) directly to devices, which is especially useful to set credentials such as WIFI passwords for the IoT devices (ie. ESP 32 devices). See SemanticMarker.org for more on the abilities use. - We have one user using Eye Tracking to send messages to reward his service dog over our IoT framework! #Ability Now for Summer 2025, is the support for Space and Time of your Semantic Marker(R). This includes GPS and Time that is extracted from the meta-data of your markers. The Map will now show the markers in their geospatial location. See the map above where the optical visual markers, which represent music artifacts, are placed at where the concert was recorded. The date of the events are also tagged - and stored in the photo for sharing outside the Semantic Marker(R) framework. Now think of real-estate or other location based artifacts: tag with a Semantic Marker(R) and the marker is much more valuable. https://semanticmarker.org/users/common/MusicMatrixSM.png

Screenshots

Permobil QuickConfig4 screens
SemanticMarker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Permobil QuickConfig at Free against SemanticMarker's $9.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Permobil QuickConfig is free to download; SemanticMarker costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Permobil QuickConfig ships an update every 3 months, SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Permobil QuickConfig versus SemanticMarker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPermobil QuickConfigSemanticMarker
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating2.2 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB281 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPermobil, Inc.Scott Moody

In-app purchases

None

Permobil QuickConfig

No in-app purchases

None

SemanticMarker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Permobil QuickConfig free?
Permobil QuickConfig is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SemanticMarker free?
SemanticMarker costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Permobil QuickConfig or SemanticMarker have ads?
Neither Permobil QuickConfig nor SemanticMarker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Permobil QuickConfig or SemanticMarker?
Permobil QuickConfig ships an update every 3 months, and SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Permobil QuickConfig was updated on September 28, 2026 and SemanticMarker on October 6, 2026.

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