Comparison

CostX vs NDKC SkoolTech Plus

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

Head to head
About

CostX

This app helps you break down and visualize projects, costs, and products. Create Work, Cost, and Product Breakdown Structures with customizable views and efficient data entry. Easily share and integrate information with other applications.

Highlights
  • Work, Cost, and Product Breakdown Structures (WBS, CBS, PBS)
  • Multiple views: graphical, list, columns
  • Intuitive data entry and manipulation
  • Drag-and-drop functionality
  • Copy and paste support
  • Customizable attribute fields
  • Efficient information sharing
Features
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Break down and visualize your work, costs and products. CostX helps you efficiently break down work, costs and products in your projects into manageable parts and automatically aggregate them from branch to trunk. CostX can be used to create Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) and Product Breakdown Structures (PBS) and is suitable for a wide range of applications thanks to its powerful customization capabilities. CostX makes it easy and convenient to break down objects to create tree structures and provides multiple forms of views to visualize your work. Thus, you have the freedom to display your project data in graphical, list and columns views, depending on your needs - CostX makes your work more efficient and intuitive. With carefully designed data entry, CostX gives you intuitive graphical manipulations, professional table manipulations, and familiar column manipulations in data entry to break down and create nodes, change attributes, and summarize costs. costX makes these tasks much easier than you might think, with minimal operating and learning costs. The application takes advantage of the powerful interactive capabilities offered by the system, helping you share information with the system and other applications extremely efficiently. By dragging and dropping, as well as copying and pasting, you can convert multiple lines of text into multiple nodes and build a tree structure in a single step, or create nodes with multiple information fields in bulk. In addition, you can batch copy data from multiple cells in Apple Number and MS Excel to the CostX spreadsheet. CostX’s customization options allow you to better adapt the program to your business needs and get creative. Users can customize the attribute fields they want, the display order, and how nodes are displayed in the various views as needed. More freedom leads to more usage scenarios. ## Ease of use - Multiple views for viewing and editing, you can choose the most suitable one for your needs. - Graphical view, allowing you to view and edit nodes in an intuitive way. - List view, with detailed data display and table editing that supports continuous input and switching and modifying cells. - Columns view, for convenient and familiar operation, similar to the columns view of the file application. - Property editor, maintenance of all properties of the node for changes. - Convenient operation of adding, duplicating, folding and indenting. ## Efficient - Powerful drag-and-drop support for: - Move and copy nodes within a document. - Merge costs within a document. - Drop CostX files into a node to insert its contents. - Drag images from Files app, Photos app, and Web browser. - Powerful copy and paste support. - Copy and paste within a document and between multiple documents. - Nodes - Cells - Copy text from outside: - Single-line text to create a new node. - Multiline text to create multiple nodes in series and get tree structure information. - Modify cell contents. - Copy data from Apple Number and Microsoft Excel: - Change cell contents in batch at once. - Batch add nodes with multiple fields at once. ## Customization - Base currency, cost rate and category settings. - More than fifty fields to choose from, including category, photo, simple and compound cost, text, date, percentage complete, etc. Costs can also be divided into two groups for comparison purposes. - Field settings. - Visibility in each view and in the property editor. - Field display title. - Field display width in the list view. - Field display order. - Display style of nodes in graphical view and columns view. - Use any CostX document as a template. ## Import & Export - Export the selected node as a CostX file. - SwiftApps WBS file into a CostX document. - CSV export. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

NDKC SkoolTech Plus

Features
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Introducing the NDKC SkoolTech Plus App, designed to enhance your connection with the school and keep you informed about your child's progress. This user-friendly app offers various features to streamline communication and provide essential updates. Let's explore its five navigation tabs:  Home Tab: Stay up to date with a threaded list of notifications and announcements. Easily view new messages from the school administration at a glance.  Notification Tab: Receive real-time notifications whenever your child enters or leaves the school premises. This tab displays a thread-like list of all notifications sent by the SkoolTech Server.  Announcement Tab: Stay informed about important school announcements such as class suspensions, holidays, and other significant events. Access a threaded list of announcements from the school administration.  Attendance Tab: Keep track of your child's attendance details, including the date, time, day of the week, and specific activities like logging in or logging out. This tab provides a convenient overview of your student's attendance records.  Settings Tab: Take control of your app experience with two essential options. "Server Sync" ensures your phone remains synchronized with the SkoolTech Server, particularly useful when encountering issues with push notifications or when enrolling an additional child. "Clear History" allows you to remove all notifications and announcements received from the SkoolTech Server.  With this App, you can effortlessly monitor your child's attendance, receive crucial announcements, and maintain seamless communication with the school. Stay connected and involved in your child's educational journey with this intuitive app.

Screenshots

CostX4 screens
NDKC SkoolTech Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NDKC SkoolTech Plus at none against CostX's 2. CostX's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads 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. CostX sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. NDKC SkoolTech Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CostX versus NDKC SkoolTech Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCostXNDKC SkoolTech Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer皓 李Michael Martin Abellana

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CostX

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Yearly$17.991 Year
None

NDKC SkoolTech Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CostX free?
CostX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NDKC SkoolTech Plus free?
NDKC SkoolTech Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CostX or NDKC SkoolTech Plus have ads?
Neither CostX nor NDKC SkoolTech Plus shows ads.

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