Spotfire Analytics vs PCS Field Data Collector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spotfire Analytics
This app allows users to visualize, aggregate, and filter data from anywhere using their mobile devices. It helps business professionals gain insights faster and bring clarity to complex issues for quick decision-making.
- Visualize, aggregate, and filter data
- Drill into data sets
- Gain insights faster
- Bring clarity to business issues
- Access data from TIBCO Cloud Spotfire
- Access data from TIBCO Spotfire servers
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Empower those with the business knowledge to ask and answer questions - from anywhere. TIBCO Spotfire® Analytics for iOS extends the reach of Spotfire analytics to anyone with an iPad or iPhone. Given the knowledge, intuition, and desire to answer the next question, you can visualize, aggregate, filter, and drill into data sets of virtually any size. You can reach insights faster with Spotfire and bring clarity to business issues or opportunities so all decision-makers get on the same page quickly. TIBCO Spotfire® Analytics for iOS can view data from TIBCO Cloud Spotfire® or data hosted on TIBCO Spotfire® servers.
PCS Field Data Collector
This application streamlines field data collection for surveys and troubleshooting. It enhances operational efficiency and ensures data integrity, saving time and reducing costs associated with resurveys due to errors.
- Periodic surveys
- Close-interval surveys
- General troubleshooting
- Increased operational efficiency
- Maintained data integrity
- Time savings
- Cost savings
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PCS Field Data Collector is our next-generation field data collection software used to perform periodic surveys, close-interval surveys, and general troubleshooting. PCS Field Data Collector increases operational efficiency and maintains data integrity. Users will see time savings since this software will facilitate performing close interval and periodic surveys and cost savings because it ensures data quality is preserved throughout the data lifecycle, from the point where it is captured to the final database of record thus reducing the chance of having to resurvey areas due to user errors or errors in data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PCS Field Data Collector at every 2 months against Spotfire Analytics's every 3 months. PCS Field Data Collector also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2). Spotfire Analytics's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for Spotfire Analytics against 3.6 for PCS Field Data Collector. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.
Spotfire Analytics ships an update every 3 months, PCS Field Data Collector every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spotfire Analytics | PCS Field Data Collector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 3.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TIBCO Software Inc | American Innovations |
Customer experience
Spotfire Analytics
PCS Field Data Collector
In-app purchases
Spotfire Analytics
No in-app purchases
PCS Field Data Collector
No in-app purchases
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