Lighthouse Score vs Search Ops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lighthouse Score
Visualize your website's speed score using six key parameters, mirroring Google's ranking system. Adjust metrics directly on a graph to see immediate impacts on your overall score and individual components. Benchmark against competitors and understand scoring thresholds for SEO improvement.
- Visualize website speed score
- Adjust metrics via interactive graph
- Benchmark against competitors
- Understand scoring thresholds
- Compare desktop vs. mobile thresholds
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Simple website speed score visualisation. Use 6 rating parameters to produce your Speed Score the way Google ranks your site. • See how your score is calculated. Change the score or value directly using the graph and watch the outcome on the individual metric and the overall Speed Score. • Improve your SEO. Benchmark your site against your competitors. Compare your score against values of other websites in your niche. • Improve your knowledge. Shows thresholds used for red/amber/green scoring. • Compare platforms. Switch thresholds to desktop to compare equal inputs.
Search Ops
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Query ElasticSearch and OpenSearch databases * Free text strings, using compounds (AND/OR) and Date Ranges * View results as documents or in a table * Easily switch between hosts, indexes and filter on mapped data types Support ElasticSearch (v6.0 and above) and OpenSearch (v1.0 and above) * /_mapping * /_search * /_aliases Authentication: * Connection using a CloudID from Elastic.co or a direct host connection * Authenticate with Username/Password, Auth Token, API Token or API Key * Readonly access only. Requires a user with Viewer and Monitoring Role Privacy & Transparency: * Open Source business logic on Github * No tracking or analytics * Uses a local on device database (Realm) with encryption on Settings * Request Logs * Request Timeout * Max Document Size * Light / Dark Mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Search Ops at Free against Lighthouse Score's $0.99. Search Ops also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Lighthouse Score's advantage is chart position (#195 vs unranked). On 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
Search Ops is free to download; Lighthouse Score costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lighthouse Score ships an update every 7 months, Search Ops every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lighthouse Score | Search Ops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Garside | Ryan McCaffery |
In-app purchases
Lighthouse Score
No in-app purchases
Search Ops
No in-app purchases
