Lab Scale vs gEncompass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lab Scale
This app works with a smart food scale to record weight measurements. It offers manual logging or automated recording at set intervals. It's particularly useful for remote science education.
- Log weight readings
- Manual logging
- Interval/frequency logging
- Compatible with Smart Food Scale
- Useful for remote science classes
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Use the Lab Scale app with a compatible Smart Food Scale to log weight readings manually or at a fixed interval/frequency. A must-have feature for remote learning science-related classes. To see a live demo, please search for the YouTube video: "smart chef Weighing Data Logger"
gEncompass
This app offers a customizable suite of tools for project management, including receipt tracking, custom reporting, task assignment, and time tracking. It can be used as an integrated system or as standalone applications to manage various aspects of your projects.
- Customizable mobile forms
- Receipt tracking
- Custom reporting
- Workflow task assignment
- Database creation
- Time tracking
- Inventory control
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gEncompass is a customizable mobile forms app for multiple facets of project management. gEncompass’s suite of apps will offer the ability to track/submit receipts, custom reporting, workflow-task assignment, database creation/maintenance, time tracking, inventory control, and more. Our family of apps can be integrated to manage your entire project or used as stand-alone apps to suit your needs. Your users are able to utilize their own devices as the entire suite will work across the most widely available mobile platforms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: gEncompass at 5.0 against Lab Scale's 3.3. Lab Scale's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
gEncompass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
Lab Scale ships an update fortnightly, gEncompass every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lab Scale | gEncompass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ReFleX Wireless Inc. | GenStrong |
Customer experience
Lab Scale
gEncompass
In-app purchases
Lab Scale
No in-app purchases
gEncompass
No in-app purchases
