Comparison

livetoolkit vs HAM

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

Head to head
About

livetoolkit

This app provides essential calculations for live event technicians, including PA system setup, lighting fixture addressing, and electrical measurements. It helps speed up on-site setup by offering quick conversions and calculations directly on a mobile device.

Highlights
  • PA system delay time calculations
  • Subwoofer stacking distance calculations
  • Q-Factor to Bandwidth conversion
  • Limiter calculations for speaker capacity
  • Tap Tempo calculation
  • DMX fixture addressing
  • Unit conversions (feet/meter, lbs/kg)
Features
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Everybody working in the live concert business has experienced situations like this: You've just arrived at the venue. According to the local promoter everything should have been put up before you arrived, but it hasn't. Now it'll take an hour or more to set up the PA-System and Lighting-gear before you can start to do your actual work. All has to be done as fast as possible. You don't have time to get your laptop out of the car and working just to do some necessary calculations. Now you can just take your iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad® and start doing your calculations with LiveToolkit. LiveToolkit helps audio technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Delay times for your PA-system: Conversion between time and distance. • Stacking distance of your subs: Conversion between frequency and wavelength. • Getting your PA-Settings into the controller: Conversion from Q-Factor to Bandwidth and back. • Setting up your controller: Limiter calculations depending on speaker capacity and amp output. • Getting the musicians tempo: Tap Tempo calculation with different note weightings. LiveToolkit helps lighting technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Getting the start address for multiple fixtures based on quantity, channels, and first address used. • Setting the DMX-address right using a DIP-Switch, or identifying the address value of a DIP-Switch. LiveToolkit helps any technicians to make relevant calculations directly with his or her iPhone®, iPod touch® or iPad®, like: • Universal useful conversion between feet and meter and lbs to kg. • Conversion between Watt, Ampere and Volt. • Calculate the voltage drop in your cable based on length and profile. • Trigonometric calculation on heights based on angle & distance. IMPORTANT NOTES: • Although good tested - this application remain a piece of Software: rockbaby engineering will not take any responsibility for any issues that may occur using LiveToolkit.

About

HAM

This utility app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for amateur radio operators, including band conditions, DX-Cluster monitoring, and a logbook. It features direct radio integration for tuning and automatic logging, along with various calculations and resource information.

Highlights
  • DX-Cluster and PSK-Reporter activity monitoring
  • Bandplan, Glossar, and AWG resource information
  • Built-in radio integration for direct tuning
  • Fully featured logbook with QSO editing
  • LOTW and QRZ.com log submission
  • Calculations for Ohm's law, VSWR, and antennas
  • CW Encoder and Decoder
Features
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The ultimate utility App for every HAM-Radio Operator HAM-Toolbox provides a variety of useful Tools to help you operating your HAM-Radio. The Tools are ranging from activity monitoring Tools like DX-Cluster and PSK-Reporter, to Tools helping you with resource information like Bandplan, Glossar, AWG and many more Tools. HAM-Toolbox also has a built-in radio integration, so that you can directly tune to spots from the DX-Cluster and other tools. During logging, the appropriate fields for the frequency and mode will be automatically filled. With a one-time purchase you gain access to all of the following Tools on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. · TOOLS: + Band Conditions + POTA + DX-Cluster + PSK-Reporter + Reverse Beacon Network + Call-Lookup + Locator + Beacons (especially NCDXF) + Repeater + DTMF Generator + CW Encoder and Decoder + Frequency List + QSL Card Designer (design, preview, print and export your own QSL cards) · LOGBOOK: HAM-Toolbox comes with a fully featured Logbook. + Inspect and edit your existing QSOs + Easy-to-use logging interface + Maintenance (Data completion from QRZ.com, Duplicates finder, Mass change) + LOTW and QRZ.com log submission + Integrated Call-Lookup with possibility to update QSO + Worked/Needed statistics for CQ-Zones, ITU-Zones and DXCCs + Map with worked grid locators representation + iCloud-Sync with multiple devices (compatible with SDR-Control and SmartSDR) · Radio-Integration: + Frequency and Mode + Logbook integration + Direct tuning from various Tools like DXCluster, POTA, Frequency List + Supports all major Brands and Radios via Network or USB + YAESU: FT-710, FT-991, FT-DX10, FT-DX100 + Icom: IC-705, IC-7300mk2, IC-7300, IC-7610, IC-7760, IC-9700, IC-R8600, + Kenwood: TS-890, TS-990 + Elecraft: K4 + HamLib · CALCULATIONS: + Ohm's law + VSWR + Dipole-Antenna + Groundplane-Antenna + HB9CV-Antenna + Helix-Antenna + dB Conversion + Wavelength · RESOURCES: + Bandplan + Glossar + Morse + AWG + CTCSS-Codes + Formulas + Q-Codes + Abbreviations + Constants Find out more here: https://ham-toolbox.com Read the Manual: https://go-to.me/hamtoolbox-manual

Screenshots

livetoolkit4 screens
HAM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: livetoolkit at $3.99 against HAM's $14.99. livetoolkit also leads on iOS requirement (12.1 vs 18.6). HAM's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

livetoolkit costs $3.99 and HAM $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HAM holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of livetoolkit's written reviews are positive against 69% of HAM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, HAM monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 1, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
livetoolkit versus HAM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlivetoolkitHAM
Price$3.99 — better$14.99
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)4.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better69.2% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#177 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas ZehMarcus Roskosch

Customer experience

livetoolkit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

HAM

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%

In-app purchases

None

livetoolkit

No in-app purchases

None

HAM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is livetoolkit free?
livetoolkit costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HAM free?
HAM costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, livetoolkit or HAM?
HAM is rated higher. livetoolkit averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while HAM averages 4.0 from 7 ratings.
Do livetoolkit or HAM have ads?
Neither livetoolkit nor HAM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, livetoolkit or HAM?
livetoolkit ships an update every 11 months, and HAM monthly. Most recently, livetoolkit was updated on July 1, 2026 and HAM on September 8, 2026.

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