Comparison

Bekonix Mobile vs Developer Laboratory

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

Head to head
About

Bekonix Mobile

Create smart, connected products without coding. Design hardware, firmware, and mobile app controls from concept to final product. Ideal for makers and creatives to invent in real-time.

Highlights
  • No-code product design
  • Hardware and firmware integration
  • End-user mobile app control
  • Interactive LED animation design
  • Real-time product invention
  • Bluetooth hardware control
Features
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The no-code way to create smart, connected products from concept to final design. Our goal is really to help you create smart, connected projects and products from concept to final design. So that means everything from putting together the hardware components, the firmware, the behaviors and even the end-user mobile app to control it... The fact is, just setting up the environment to create hardware, software and app experiences is a daunting task. Add to that the programming obstacles even experienced teams face iterating a new product and you have a recipe for frustration. The Bekonix Platform lets you try out ideas in minutes that would take days or weeks the traditional way. What’s more, since no programming is required, motivated creatives can jump in and not just talk about making a smart, connected product but invent it in real-time. Quick development that anyone can do. This is why we chose a no-code, drag and drop approach so it’s not just about changing how things are made, it’s also about who can make them. We’d really like to help open up these capabilities to all kinds of motivated creatives to make all kinds of things. Tell a story with rich color transitions, sparkles, and natural motion effects. Set up fantastic home, business, and holiday lighting. Make retail displays and animated signs. Enhance your crafts. Create a work of art. Then control it from your iPhone or iPad. The Bekonix platform has three parts: • Bekonix Designer (Mac): Design interactive LED animations on a graphic timeline. • Bekonix OS (NEW!): Firmware installation for Adafruit Itsy Bitsy and Feather boards. • Bekonix Mobile (iOS): Control your hardware over Bluetooth. We worked hard to make it easy. Simply connect LEDs to your hardware and choose a preset on your iPhone or iPad. Because we're makers too, we included tons of advanced options for designers, artists, and people who want to get even more creative. Here's how it works: 1. Design your layout and lighting effects in Bekonix Designer. 2. Connect LEDs to your Bekonix OS hardware. (We support a wide variety of addressable LED strips, strings, matrices, and other formats, as well as sensors and other peripherals.) 3. Upload your projects from your computer to the hardware over Bluetooth. Then use Bekonix Mobile to select programs on your hardware, monitor sensor input, schedule programs to play on special days, and more.

About

Developer Laboratory

This app provides a collection of example code and UI components for iOS developers. It demonstrates various functionalities like app icon creation, image viewing, web page loading, and custom controls. Access the source code to learn implementation details.

Highlights
  • APP icon creation
  • Imitation of WeChat Moments
  • Web page loading
  • Custom UI components
  • QR code scanning
  • Facial tracking
  • Database operations
Features
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iOS Technical Sharing (APP icon creation, imitation of WeChat Moments, imitation of WeChat image viewer, preventing @mentions on Sina Weibo, imitation of Alipay password prompt, imitation of Post Circle, tags, JS interaction + WK, loading web pages, adaptive cell height, embedding video player in TableView to prevent lag, custom beautiful popups, address selection, time selection, color selection, custom navigation control, carousel, QR code scanning, facial tracking, custom camera, ID card photo capture, iOS media player, AVPlayer encapsulation, dropdown selection popup, Snake game, marquee, adaptive height for TableView, native image download caching, folder operations, database operations, third-party login, sharing, payment, Apple installation agreement, data transfer between apps, acknowledgments for support) https://github.com/HansenCCC/YPLaboratory YPLaboratory is the source code for this project. If you want to see how it's implemented, you can click to view the source code. https://github.com/HansenCCC/YPUIKit-ObjC YPUIKit-ObjC is the framework for this project, providing many out-of-the-box functionalities. It includes in-app purchases, subscriptions, prompt dialogs, app info, user agent retrieval, device info, unique identifiers (persistent even after deletion), badges, useful buttons, common categories, MD5, hooks, regular expressions, hashed colors, image matrices, black-and-white images, base64 images, navigation settings, handy input fields, file management, floating draggable buttons, single-line input, multi-line input, loading dialogs, custom dialogs, local logs, marquee, waterfall flow, carousel, image preview, and more.

Screenshots

Bekonix Mobile4 screens
Developer Laboratory3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bekonix Mobile at Free against Developer Laboratory's $0.99. Bekonix Mobile also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8). Developer Laboratory's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads 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

Bekonix Mobile is free to download; Developer Laboratory costs $0.99 up front. Developer Laboratory sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Bekonix Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Developer Laboratory holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Bekonix Mobile's written reviews are positive against 60% of Developer Laboratory's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bekonix Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Developer Laboratory monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bekonix Mobile versus Developer Laboratory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBekonix MobileDeveloper Laboratory
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBekonix恒盛 程

Customer experience

Bekonix Mobile

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Developer Laboratory

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bekonix Mobile

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Developer Laboratory

One-time8
  • 0 ice cola$0.99
  • 1 ice cola$0.99
  • A sip of iced cola$0.99
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  • 一元商品$0.99
  • 2 ice cola$1.99
  • 3 ice cola$2.99
  • 4.16 ice cola$3.99
  • 16.5 ice cola$14.99

Questions

Is Bekonix Mobile free?
Bekonix Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Developer Laboratory free?
Developer Laboratory costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bekonix Mobile or Developer Laboratory?
Developer Laboratory is rated higher. Bekonix Mobile averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Developer Laboratory averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Bekonix Mobile or Developer Laboratory have ads?
Neither Bekonix Mobile nor Developer Laboratory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bekonix Mobile or Developer Laboratory?
Bekonix Mobile ships an update every 3 months, and Developer Laboratory monthly. Most recently, Bekonix Mobile was updated on August 22, 2026 and Developer Laboratory on September 10, 2026.

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