Comparison

Google Play Console vs BluKit Workbench

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

Head to head
About

Google Play Console

Monitor key app metrics, manage orders, and issue refunds. Engage with users by viewing and replying to app reviews. Track app availability across various release tracks.

Highlights
  • Monitor app metrics
  • Manage app orders
  • Issue refunds
  • View and reply to reviews
  • Track release availability
Features
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• Monitor the metrics you care about • Manage your app's orders and issue refunds • View and reply to app reviews • Track and monitor the availability of your apps across different tracks and releases

About

BluKit Workbench

This app is a powerful utility for discovering, inspecting, and prototyping Bluetooth devices. It allows real-time recording and export of peripheral data, and enables the creation of virtual peripherals for testing and development.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth scanning, connecting, inspecting
  • Filtering and sorting discovered devices
  • Recording and exporting peripheral data to JSON
  • Creating and interacting with virtual peripherals
  • Supports Mac, iPhone, and iPad
  • Built with BluKit Framework for Xcode
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BluKit™ Workbench app is an indispensable Bluetooth® development tool. It is also a powerful Bluetooth discovery and inspection utility app. BluKit Workbench is available on Mac, iPhone and iPad, taking full advantage of each platform. BluKit Workbench includes all the expected features of a Bluetooth scanning app: scanning, connecting, inspecting, filtering, sorting, renaming, and hiding. In version 2, BluKit Workbench introduces features to improve the experience of developing software for apps that communicate with Bluetooth peripherals. BluKit Workbench 2.0 introduces an exciting new software developer feature: Virtual Peripherals! The following Bluetooth peripheral data can be recorded in real time, and exported to a JSON file: • Peripheral
• Services • Characteristics • Descriptors • Advertisement Data • RSSI signals • Characteristic Notify/Indicate values as Data The exported JSON Bluetooth peripheral data can be inspected, and even modified! Import the valid JSON file into BluKit Workbench. The new "Virtual Peripheral" appears as another discovered Bluetooth peripheral. Inspect, Connect, and interact with the Virtual Peripheral just like a real peripheral! BluKit Workbench is built with BluKit™ Framework, a powerful Xcode framework available from Zion Software for your company to use for development, testing, and commercial app licensing. BluKit™ Framework simplifies and improves Bluetooth software integration on iOS, iPadOS and macOS: • Load Virtual Peripherals from JSON • Develop apps using Xcode Simulators, including the CoreBluetooth features. • Add tests to cover the Bluetooth features of your app. • Automate testing within Xcode Simulators including the CoreBluetooth features. • Leverage prebuilt support for many Bluetooth GATT Services and Characteristics. • Built on top of Apple's CoreBluetooth Framework. • Minimal API changes to adopt BluKit Framework.

Screenshots

Google Play Console4 screens
BluKit Workbench4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Google Play Console at Free against BluKit Workbench's $9.99. Google Play Console also leads on chart position (#27 vs unranked). BluKit Workbench's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 57%) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Google Play Console is free to download; BluKit Workbench costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Google Play Console versus BluKit Workbench: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle Play ConsoleBluKit Workbench
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.7 (154 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings154 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#27 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleZion Software, LLC

Customer experience

Google Play Console

All ratings154 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative35.7%

BluKit Workbench

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Google Play Console

No in-app purchases

None

BluKit Workbench

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Play Console free?
Google Play Console is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BluKit Workbench free?
BluKit Workbench costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Google Play Console or BluKit Workbench have ads?
Neither Google Play Console nor BluKit Workbench shows ads.

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