iPowerRocket vs Meshtastic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iPowerRocket
This application assists amateur rocketeers with rocket design and flight planning. It offers tools for calculating critical flight parameters, simulating trajectories, and managing flight logs. All essential calculations are conveniently available on your iPhone or iPod touch.
- Rocket design calculations
- Flight simulation
- Ejection charge calculation
- Parachute dimensioning
- Flight log management
- Barrowman CP computation
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iPowerRocket is an application that allows an amateur rocketeer to perform all the calculations for rocket design and flight planning on his or her iPhone or iPod touch. It includes tools for barrowman CP computation, flight simulation, calculating ejection charges, dimensioning parachutes and a flight log, all in one application. To see iPowerRocket in action, have a look at the video on the iPowerRocket home page.
Meshtastic
This app enables off-grid, decentralized communication via a low-power mesh network. Send text messages in areas lacking cellular or WiFi service.
- Off-grid communication
- Decentralized mesh network
- Low-power LoRa radio support
- Text messaging
- No cellular/WiFi required
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Meshtastic® is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on low-power Lora radios letting you send text messages in areas without reliable cellular or WiFi service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Meshtastic at 4.1 against iPowerRocket's 3.3. Meshtastic also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (824 vs 4). iPowerRocket's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Meshtastic holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meshtastic has 824 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of iPowerRocket's written reviews are positive against 44% of Meshtastic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iPowerRocket ships an update every 5 months, Meshtastic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPowerRocket | Meshtastic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) | 4.1 (824 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews — better | 44.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 824 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ANDREAS MUELLER | Meshtastic LLC |
Customer experience
iPowerRocket
Meshtastic
Bugs and requests
iPowerRocket
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Meshtastic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Canned messages configuration issues
- Location sharing and traceroute functions not working
- Settings screen bugs and crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline maps support
- Ability to customize notifications
- More sorting and filtering options for nodes
- Apple Watch and Shortcuts integration
- Improved documentation and user guidance
In-app purchases
iPowerRocket
No in-app purchases
Meshtastic
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iPowerRocket free?
Is Meshtastic free?
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Do iPowerRocket or Meshtastic have ads?
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