iJishin vs 3D Quakes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iJishin
This application transforms your iPhone into a seismometer, allowing you to measure and analyze seismic vibrations. You can upload your observations to share with the public and utilize various tools for wave analysis, including graphical displays of power spectrum and displacement.
- Transforms iPhone into a seismometer
- Measures seismic vibrations
- Analyzes wave data
- Uploads seismic observations
- Graphical display of power spectrum
- Measures velocity and displacement
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iJishin – iPhone seismometer, anytime anywhere, measure and browse. iJishin is a free application that makes your iPhone(iPad, iPod touch) change into a seismometer and a data browser as well as a vibration analyser. You can upload seismic information such as maximum acceleration, “SHINDO”(seismic intensity) , occurrence time, and so on, to open your observation to the public. Please visit: http://www.geonavi.com:8888/ iJishin also provides you an excellent tool to measure acceleration anytime anywhere on any occasion. Feel vibration and measure with iJishin! FEATURES: iJishin draws full ability as a seismometer from iPhone(iPad, iPod touch). Also it provides tools for wave analysis. iJishin uses acceleration sensors installed in iPhone(iPad, iPod touch) to measure earthquake vibrations. Signals of three sensors of the device are sampled with frequency of 100Hz and are given the time stamp every 0.01 sec strictly synchronized with UTC by using outer NTP server. iJishin’s recording process starts/stops when the signal becomes larger/smaller than the triggering level. Allowance durations of the process can be set to save data before/after the signal grows/attenuates to the threshold triggering level. iJishin provides you several tools to display and to analyze quake data saved in your iPhone(iPad, iPod touch): not only a wave browser but also a graphical display of power spectrum, of integration such as velocity and displacement, and of the 2D trajectory of the device.
3D Quakes
Explore a 3D visualization of earthquake data, including topography and tectonic plates. Customize your view by adjusting magnitude, depth, and time ranges. Additional data can be downloaded with a NIED account.
- 3D earthquake distribution visualization
- Interactive rotation and scaling
- 3D topography overlay
- Tectonic plate visualization
- Customizable magnitude, depth, and period ranges
- Downloadable additional catalog data
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3D viewer of the distribution of earthquakes. You can: - easily rotate and scale the distribution - see the 3D visualization of the topography - overlay the Pacific and Philippine Sea plates - set the ranges of the magnitude, the depth and the period. - can download additional catalog data with NIED account (data of 2 weeks are pre-installed as a sample)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 3D Quakes at 5.0 against iJishin's 1.0. 3D Quakes also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (11.2 vs 16.6). iJishin's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
3D Quakes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of iJishin's written reviews are positive against 33% of 3D Quakes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iJishin ships an update every 3 months, 3D Quakes monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iJishin | 3D Quakes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hakusan Corporation | Kentaro Emoto |
Customer experience
iJishin
3D Quakes
In-app purchases
iJishin
No in-app purchases
3D Quakes
No in-app purchases









