Comparison

Logcaliper vs Update DIY

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

Head to head
About

Logcaliper

This utility app assists IT professionals in calculating and comparing data storage needs for big data and SIEM solutions. It converts various data sizes and rates, estimates storage capacity, and helps size log management systems.

Highlights
  • Data unit conversion
  • Decimal/binary conversion modes
  • Estimate storage capacity
  • Size SIEM solutions
  • Convert message rates
  • Log source list creation
  • Email export of results
Features
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Logcaliper sizes log management and SIEM deployments. Pick the sources you collect from, set the retention and compression, and get the storage, the cluster capacity and the number of data nodes to hold it. It converts message rates and data volumes in any unit, decimal or binary, and puts any size in human terms. Every SIEM quote turns on two numbers: the bytes per event and the events per second. Logcaliper ships measured average event sizes for 39 common products and typical event rates for 16 source categories. To measure your own, the free profiler at logcaliper.app/profiler reads a sample of your log in the browser, with nothing uploaded. NEW IN 3.1.1: - Measure yours: beside the average message size, a link to the free profiler on logcaliper.app, opened here or sent to a computer - New rows under Settings, then About: a source that is missing, Rate Logcaliper, and logcaliper.app - Adding a source to your list no longer sends the rate or the event size you set - The privacy policy is a plain page on logcaliper.app that names every event the app sends - The rating prompt appears at most once per version, at the end of a task HIGHLIGHTS: - Storage estimate for a list of log sources: retention, compression, indexing, replication, cluster capacity and number of data nodes - Average event sizes for 39 common products, measured from more than ten million log events - Typical event rates for 16 source categories, with the condition that drives each figure: whether Sysmon is deployed, whether flows are sampled, what the database audit policy is - Conversion between message rates, per second to per month, and data rates, bits per second to exabytes per year, decimal or binary - Share of an Ethernet link for any bit or byte rate - Comparison of any data size against things you recognise, from a page of text to a gram of DNA - Long-press a conversion result to copy it, as the number or as the whole sentence with its units - Email export of an estimate with its list of sources - PCI DSS retention labels from requirement 10.5.1 of v4.0.1 - Threshold, a game that teaches the scale of data and log volumes, also on the web at logcaliper.app/threshold - Free, no account, no ads. iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later

About

Update DIY

Features
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A Bluetooth control app that upgrades devices through Bluetooth. The main functions of the app include switching languages, searching for connected devices, and upgrading devices

Screenshots

Logcaliper4 screens
Update DIY3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Update DIY at monthly against Logcaliper's every 6 months. Update DIY also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Logcaliper ships an update every 6 months, Update DIY monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Logcaliper versus Update DIY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLogcaliperUpdate DIY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristophe Briguet海洋 刘

In-app purchases

None

Logcaliper

No in-app purchases

None

Update DIY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Logcaliper free?
Logcaliper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Update DIY free?
Update DIY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Logcaliper or Update DIY have ads?
Neither Logcaliper nor Update DIY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Logcaliper or Update DIY?
Logcaliper ships an update every 6 months, and Update DIY monthly. Most recently, Logcaliper was updated on November 1, 2026 and Update DIY on November 4, 2026.

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