Vibration vs NMR Solvent Peaks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vibration
This app analyzes vibration spectrums using your device's sensors. It can process time-series data, remove DC bias, apply windows, and perform FFT for frequency analysis. Results can be emailed for documentation.
- Built-in accelerometer and gyroscope analysis
- Internal microphone and external Digiducer support
- Adjustable sample rates and data lengths
- FFT and frequency spectrum plotting
- DC bias removal and Hamming window
- Data export via email and iTunes
- Apple Watch companion app for triggering
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Vibration turns your iPhone or iPad into a true FFT vibration spectrum analyzer — a portable alternative to a commercial spectrum analyzer for machinery diagnostics, acoustic testing, and hobbyist vibration analysis. Version 5.00 is a complete visual redesign: a modern, color-coded interface built around the way vibration technicians actually work, with clean, uncluttered screens for every channel and setting, a drag-cursor readout for reading exact values on any plot, and a crisp new PDF report you can generate and share in seconds. MEASURE FROM ANYWHERE - Built-in 3-axis accelerometer and gyroscope — sensitivity to about 0.02g, range ±2g - Built-in microphone input for acoustic vibration analysis - Digiducer professional USB accelerometer support (additional Digiducer features unlockable via in-app purchase) ANALYZE LIKE A BENCH-TOP SPECTRUM ANALYZER - Time series and FFT frequency spectrum on every channel, with adjustable sample rate (10 Hz–100 Hz internal, up to 48 kHz with microphone/Digiducer) - Linear-Linear, Log-Log, Log-Linear, and Linear-Log frequency display modes - Hamming, Hanning, and Flattop windowing - Integrate and differentiate in the frequency domain - RMS and peak levels per channel and combined - Frequency averaging and peak hold - Color-coded peaks list with the top 5 peaks per channel - Tap-and-drag cursor readout in portrait or landscape, with magnetic snap to peaks - Selectable data length from 256 to 4096 samples, variable start delay up to 20 seconds - DC-remove option to eliminate the gravity vector BUILT FOR THE FIELD - Guided accelerometer calibration with an on-screen orientation guide, live stability meter, and a locked reposition countdown - Trigger acquisitions from one or more accelerometer channels or the microphone - Auto-repeat and auto-save for long-duration monitoring - Apple Watch companion app — trigger a sample and review settings right from your wrist DOCUMENT YOUR RESULTS - New crisp PDF report — identical on iPhone and iPad — with time series and frequency plots and acquisition details - Open, non-proprietary format — data saves as plain CSV you can reload in the app or open in Excel, MATLAB, or Python, and email straight to your desktop - Save data locally and transfer with the Files app - Screen snapshots sync to your computer like any photo In many applications, Vibration is an excellent portable alternative to a commercial spectrum analyzer. In predictive maintenance applications it can help identify bearing defects, shaft misalignment, imbalance, and structural resonant frequencies — and it's equally useful for monitoring the acceleration of part and material handling equipment. Further development and additional features are planned. Use the email links in the app to request features or report issues.
NMR Solvent Peaks
This utility helps organic chemists quickly identify potential impurities by searching a database of NMR data. Users can input solvent, peak multiplicity, and location to find candidate impurities. It supports both proton and carbon data searches.
- Search for impurities by mode, solvent, multiplicity, and ppm
- View alphabetical list of all impurities
- Adjust user interface handedness
- Select color themes
- Supports proton and carbon NMR data
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NMR Solvent Peaks is a conveniently-searchable version of the ungainly table of NMR data most organic chemists keep a copy of nearby. Instead of searching through the table for a peak near your unidentified peak, just enter your solvent and the peak's multiplicity and location and you'll have a short list of candidate impurities. NMR Solvent Peaks has support for searching both proton and carbon data, and references the widely-distributed 2010 Organometallics paper by Gregory Fulmer and coworkers and the 2016 OPRD paper by Gregory Whiteker and coworkers. Feature Highlights: - search for impurities based upon mode (proton/carbon), deuterated solvent, multiplicity, and ppm - select "show all" for ppm to see an alphabetical list of all impurities in the app's database - pick a color theme and adjust the user interface handedness
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NMR Solvent Peaks at Free against Vibration's $9.99. NMR Solvent Peaks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Vibration's advantage is chart position (#147 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On ratings volume, 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
NMR Solvent Peaks is free to download; Vibration costs $9.99 up front. Vibration sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NMR Solvent Peaks asks for nothing beyond the download.
NMR Solvent Peaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Vibration's written reviews are positive against 100% of NMR Solvent Peaks's.
Vibration ships an update every 6 weeks, NMR Solvent Peaks every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vibration | NMR Solvent Peaks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #147 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diffraction Limited Design LLC | Lucas Moore |
Customer experience
Vibration
NMR Solvent Peaks
Bugs and requests
Vibration
Reported bugs
17 issues- Randomly cut recordings short
- Locked up and tried to text data file
- Cancel button greyed out
- Stopped working
- No longer records, saves or allows contact with developer
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- Frequencies appear at twice their actual frequency
- Application Receipt Not Valid
- Complains about "receipt" problem and forces app to close
- Unable to load saved data
- Calibration crashes and ends the program
- Time base warning message appears
- Y axis doesn't work
- Cannot calibrate, unstable/orientation message
- "i" button doesn't work
- Needs continuous logging
- Hangs a little
- App hangs once in a while and has to be reset
Requested features
27 requests- Spectrum analysis labels
- Continuous sampling option
- Higher sample rate
- Extend sample rate to 1kHz
- Measure mm/s
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- Edit which axis displayed on time series tab
- Continuous mode
- Higher frequency range (up to 5kHz)
- Add continuous logging
- Add cropping options
- Add data storage
- Add cursor mode
- Add trigger level
- Send graphics via email directly
- Extend sample size
- Break 50Hz fmax barrier
- Add a sum of all 3 axes
- Chart an equation next to the data
- Continuous sampling option
- Fix y axis bug
- Extend frequency range
- Fix bugs
- Continuous sampling option
- Fix y axis bug
- Higher frequency range
- Continuous sampling option
- Fix y axis bug
NMR Solvent Peaks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vibration
- Enable full Digiducer functionality$19.99
NMR Solvent Peaks
No in-app purchases
Questions
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