Comparison

MEAZOR vs OpenManual

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

Head to head
About

MEAZOR

Create, edit, and save detailed floor plans and measurements with high productivity. This tool is designed for professionals like interior designers and architects, allowing seamless export of drawings to other workflows. It integrates with a digital room scanner for enhanced efficiency.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth connection with digital room scanner
  • Import, draw, and edit drawings with auto-snap
  • Project lists for easy management
  • Export drawings in .dxf, .pdf, and .jpg formats
  • High productivity for design professionals
Features
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MEAZOR app is a multifunctional tool where you can draw, edit, and save unlimited floorplans and measuring results with high productivity. And simply export to the next step in your workflow. Specially designed to raise productivity for Interior Designers, Architects, Interior Decorators, Industrial designers, Etc. Featured Functions: -Bluetooth connection with MEAZOR- Digital Room Scanner. -Import, Draw, and Edit Drawings with the auto-snap feature. -Project Lists helps you easy to manage and switch between projects. -Export .dxf/pdf/jpg formats to the next step in your workflow. This App can be used in combination with MEAZOR- Digital Room Scanner to maximize your workflow's efficiency.

About

OpenManual

Locate lost or inaccessible product manuals by scanning device labels or barcodes. It searches manufacturer sites, archives, and the open web to find documentation, even for discontinued items. Saved manuals are available offline and can be queried for specific answers.

Highlights
  • Scan labels and barcodes to identify products
  • Search manufacturer sites and archives
  • Offline access to saved manuals
  • Query saved manuals for specific answers
  • Handles discontinued products
  • Supports various household and professional equipment
Features
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The manual is never around when you actually need it. It came in a box you recycled years ago, or it's in a drawer somewhere, or the company that made the thing doesn't even exist anymore. Meanwhile the thing is sitting right in front of you blinking and all you want to know is what the light means. So OpenManual starts where you already are, which is standing next to it. Point your camera at the label. Everything has one somewhere, whether it's a sticker on the back, a plate screwed to the side, or tiny type stamped into the plastic. OpenManual reads it and figures out which part is the brand and which part is the model, because those two are almost never labeled and the whole search depends on getting them right. If you can't get to the label, take a photo of it, scan the barcode on the box, or just type in what you know. Then it goes looking where manuals live. The maker's support site, the Internet Archive, which keeps documents long after a product is gone, and the open web get asked, so one engine having a bad day doesn't sink it. If the first pass comes up short, it reads what went wrong and searches again. The maker's own copy comes first. With Apple Intelligence, the phone's model reads the label, and Refine searches locally lets it sort results and plan a harder search. It finds documents but it never decides for you, and that's on purpose. Every result shows you the cover of the actual file, tells you what site it came from, and says in plain words how well it matches. If a document only half fits your device it says so instead of handing it over and hoping you don't notice. Nothing gets saved until you say yes. Sometimes the manual is real and sitting behind a login or a paywall. OpenManual won't sign in, pay, or sneak around a gate, so it just tells you where the document is and lets you go get it yourself. That felt more honest than pretending nothing turned up. Anything you keep stays on your phone (and in any backup of it) and works offline, which matters when you're in a basement and the signal gives up. Ask a question about a manual you saved and the answer comes straight from the document with the page shown, so you can check that it really says that. It works on the stuff that fills a house, a shop, or a building: • Washers, dryers, fridges, dishwashers, ovens • Furnaces, heat pumps, water heaters, thermostats • Drills, saws, mowers, pressure washers, generators • Printers, routers, TVs, cameras • The mystery unit in the garage that was already there when you moved in It also does medical and lab equipment, which is honestly why I built it. I spend my days supporting operating rooms, and I've spent a lot of that time hunting down IFUs for devices that went out of production a decade ago. So scan the UDI barcode on a device label and the whole device lands on one page: what it is, verified against the FDA's public registry, this unit's lot, serial and expiry, the instructions for use, recalls, adverse event reports split by what happened, and its class and regulation. It knows a REF from a serial from a lot number, and an IFU from a service manual from a cleaning guide. A few things worth knowing before you download it: • Three saved devices are free, no account, no sign up • One purchase lifts the limit forever and nothing renews • Saved manuals work offline • You confirm every document before it gets kept • It runs on iPhone and iPad One last thing, because it matters. OpenManual finds documentation and quotes it. It doesn't diagnose problems, it doesn't tell you whether something is safe to run, and it's not a substitute for someone who actually knows the machine. When it can't find your manual it says so, because being confidently wrong is worse than being honest.

Screenshots

MEAZOR3 screens
OpenManual4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OpenManual at 5.0 against MEAZOR's 2.0. OpenManual also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). MEAZOR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price 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

Both are free to download. OpenManual sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MEAZOR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OpenManual holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MEAZOR has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MEAZOR ships an update every 3 weeks, OpenManual every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MEAZOR versus OpenManual: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMEAZOROpenManual
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHOZO DESIGN CO., LIMITEDGunnar Hostetler

Customer experience

MEAZOR

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative84.6%

OpenManual

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

MEAZOR

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

OpenManual

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is MEAZOR free?
MEAZOR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenManual free?
OpenManual is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MEAZOR or OpenManual?
OpenManual is rated higher. MEAZOR averages 2.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while OpenManual averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do MEAZOR or OpenManual have ads?
MEAZOR shows ads; OpenManual does not.
Which is updated more often, MEAZOR or OpenManual?
MEAZOR ships an update every 3 weeks, and OpenManual every 2 days. Most recently, MEAZOR was updated on October 8, 2026 and OpenManual on October 24, 2026.

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