QIAGEN App vs ACE+KEY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QIAGEN App
This app simplifies lab work with multiple timers, buffer tables, and conversion calculators. It also offers quick-start protocols for various testing applications and support packages for specific QIAGEN instruments.
- Multiple lab timers
- Buffer and solution tables
- Conversion and dilution calculators
- Quick-start protocols
- Instrument support packages
- Tutorials and updates
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QIAGEN’s iPhone and iPad Apps — simplifying your daily work at the lab bench The QIAGEN App is a great resource for iPhone and iPad users that helps to ease and simplify your daily work in the lab. The app provides simultaneous multiple lab timers, tables of many commonly used lab buffers and solutions, a variety of conversion and dilution calculators. The latest version of the QIAGEN App includes Quick-Start Protocols for QIAGEN sample technologies, PCR and next-generation sequencing, human identity testing and forensics, food safety testing and other great applications. The app also includes packages for users of QIAcube, QIAgility, QIAxpert and Rotor-Gene Q providing protocol sheets, support documents, tutorials and updates.
ACE+KEY
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Innovative functionality of the ACE+Key application allows users to open a fibre-optic cabinets using a mobile application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ACE+KEY at every 2 months against QIAGEN App's every 4 months. QIAGEN App's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
QIAGEN App ships an update every 4 months, ACE+KEY every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QIAGEN App | ACE+KEY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | QIAGEN GmbH | TKF |
In-app purchases
QIAGEN App
No in-app purchases
ACE+KEY
No in-app purchases
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