DETICKT IT vs TickTracker BeBopLabs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DETICKT IT
Identify ticks with a photo and receive a comprehensive risk assessment for tick-borne diseases. The app uses your location to determine the risk from common tick species.
- Tick identification via photo
- Comprehensive risk assessment
- Location-based disease risk
- Identification of common tick species
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DETICKT IT is an app that allows users to take a photo of a tick they find and then it gives a comprehensive risk assessment of the most prevalent tick-borne diseases. The app uses the user's location to create a location-based risk from the most common species of tick that are identified.
TickTracker BeBopLabs
This app enables users to identify ticks using AI, automatically log encounter data, and optionally send ticks for professional disease screening. It contributes to citizen science by collecting real-time, GPS-tagged data for public health surveillance.
- AI-powered tick species identification
- Automatic GPS, date, and time logging
- Optional mail-in lab testing for disease screening
- Report history storage
- Live tick activity map contribution
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BeBopLabs TICKTRACKER — Citizen Science, Professional Results. Every year, nearly half a million Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease. Countless more are infected by co-infections like Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — diseases that go undetected, misdiagnosed, and unreported because the data simply doesn't exist at the community level. TickTracker MASTER is here to change that. Developed by GDG LLC and exclusively licensed to BeBopLabs — New Hampshire's only nonprofit dedicated to tick and tick-borne disease surveillance — TickTracker MASTER puts professional-grade biosurveillance tools directly in the hands of everyday people: hikers, hunters, farmers, families, pet owners, and public health workers. WHY THIS MATTERS NOW The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has identified vector-borne disease surveillance as a critical gap in America's public health infrastructure. Ticks are expanding their range northward every year as climate patterns shift — and without real-time, geolocated, community-sourced data, public health agencies are flying blind. TickTracker MASTER is exactly what HHS, the CDC, and state health departments have been calling for: a scalable, low-cost, citizen-science platform that generates structured, GPS-tagged, species-identified tick encounter data — in real time, from across the country. WHAT THE APP DOES PHOTOGRAPH & IDENTIFY — AI-powered species identification from a single photo. AUTO-CAPTURE — GPS, date, time, and weather logged automatically on every report. MAIL-IN LAB TESTING — Ship your tick for professional disease screening: • Basic ($49) — Lyme disease • Standard ($89) — Lyme + 5 co-infections • Comprehensive ($149) — Full 12-pathogen panel REPORT HISTORY — Stored locally and synced to the BeBopLabs national research database. LIVE MAP — Real-time tick activity and infection rates at beboplabs.org. THE TECHNOLOGY TickTracker MASTER was architected by Sir Michael L. Bouchard, Founder of GDG LLC and a globally recognized Infrastructure Technologist. Sir Michael has been formally Knighted in recognition of his contributions to advancements in DOD secured communications and jamming technologies — bringing that same commitment to data integrity, privacy, and resilient infrastructure to every layer of this platform. The result is a biosurveillance system built to the standards of critical national infrastructure, not a consumer hobby app. THE SCIENCE BeBopLabs was founded by Dr. Kaitlyn Morse, a PhD immunologist whose doctoral thesis produced a working vaccine for Anaplasmosis — the world's most prevalent tick-borne disease. She later worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School's Infectious Disease Division developing laser-based vaccine adjuvant technology. BeBopLabs is the only organization in New Hampshire systematically tracking ticks and tick-borne diseases at the intersection of prevention, surveillance, and diagnosis. PROTECTING MORE THAN PEOPLE Exclusively licensed to BeBopLabs for human, canine, and household pet tick surveillance — because ticks don't discriminate, and neither should your tools. SUPPORT THE MISSION BeBopLabs is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. A portion of every lab testing purchase supports ongoing field research, public education, and tick surveillance in underserved communities across the United States. Together, we're building the dataset America needs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TickTracker BeBopLabs at every 9 days against DETICKT IT's every 9 months. TickTracker BeBopLabs also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). DETICKT IT's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TickTracker BeBopLabs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DETICKT IT has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of DETICKT IT's written reviews are positive against 100% of TickTracker BeBopLabs's.
DETICKT IT ships an update every 9 months, TickTracker BeBopLabs every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DETICKT IT | TickTracker BeBopLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonia Kolb | MICHAEL LOUIS BOUCHARD |
Customer experience
DETICKT IT
TickTracker BeBopLabs
In-app purchases
DETICKT IT
No in-app purchases
TickTracker BeBopLabs
No in-app purchases
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