Quartzy vs Labshare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quartzy
Manage your lab's inventory with this mobile tool. Track stock, submit requests, and scan items to ensure supplies are always available, preventing experimental delays. Generate unique barcodes directly from your account.
- Track inventory in real-time
- Submit supply requests
- Scan and receive items
- Print unique barcodes
- Up-to-date stock view
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Quartzy Mobile App allows everyone in the lab to track inventory, creating a more up-to-date view of what is available in your lab, so supplies can be ordered in time and no experiment is delayed. Track and update inventory Submit supply requests Scan and receive items into inventory Print unique barcodes right from your Quartzy account
Labshare
This app digitizes lab inventory, allowing teams to track materials in real-time and share excess supplies with nearby labs. It uses OCR scanning for labels and facilitates intra-institution collaboration to reduce waste and ordering redundancies.
- Intra-institution collaboration
- OCR-powered label scanning
- Real-time inventory tracking
- Export to Excel
- Mobile-first design
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Labshare is a smart lab inventory management and sharing app built for research teams. Digitize your inventory with label scanning, track materials in real-time, and easily share excess supplies with nearby labs to reduce waste. Labshare is designed for lab managers, researchers, and PIs who want to save time, reduce ordering redundancies, and move beyond clunky Excel sheets. Key Features: • Intra-institution collaboration and inventory sharing • OCR-powered label scanning • Export to Excel • Mobile-first design for lab bench access • Real-time inventory tracking Labshare helps research institutions run more efficiently, sustainably, and collaboratively.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Labshare at 5.0 against Quartzy's 3.3. Labshare also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Quartzy's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Labshare holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quartzy has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Quartzy ships an update monthly, Labshare every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quartzy | Labshare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quartzy, Inc. | Mingyo Kang |
Customer experience
Quartzy
Labshare
In-app purchases
Quartzy
No in-app purchases
Labshare
No in-app purchases
