Well Logs vs Selman Surface Logging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Well Logs
View large TIFF or PDF oil industry well and mud logs on your iOS device. This app handles extremely large image files and can act as a cloud server for file management. It also supports land maps and accelerated multipage TIFF/PDF reading.
- View large TIFF/PDF well logs
- Supports files up to 11x770 inches
- Cloud server for file management
- Accelerated multipage TIFF/PDF reading
- Supports land maps
- Printing and emailing capabilities
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Well Logs is an application that lets you look at TIFF or PDF based oil industry (Petroleum) Well or Mud Logs on your iOS device. We have tested with files up to 11x770 inches (11 inches by 65 feet). At 230 dpi, these are upwards of 420 Megapixel images! 500 mega-pixel well logs can be preprocessed by our "LargeViewer Helper for iOS PreRendering" app on OS-X about one thousand times faster than on your iPad. NOW A FREE APP! Can act as a cloud server so you can upload/download/mange files and folders from your desktop browser. A beta tester notes: "Well Logs is the only App on the market to have the capabilities to load and view oil & gas wireline well log TIFF and/or PDF images. With wireline well files up to hundreds of inches long, most Apps don’t have the memory capacity to allow such images to load without crashing. But the Well Logs App has made it a priority to specifically handle such files. " Not only do we support Well Logs we support Land Maps that are 48 inches by hundreds of inches long. We also provide accelerated multipage PDF & Tiff fax file reading using technology from our PDF and TIFF viewer applications, and support all of the image formats supported by our Can Opener technology. Well logging, also known as borehole logging is the practice of making a detailed record (a well log) of the geologic formations penetrated by a borehole. The log may be based either on visual inspection of samples brought to the surface (geological logs) or on physical measurements made by instruments lowered into the hole (geophysical logs). Well logging is done during all phases of a wells development; drilling, completing, producing and abandoning. Mostly in the oil and gas, groundwater, minerals, geothermal, and for environmental and geotechnical studies. Now supports printing, TIFF to PDF, emailing of (SOME) files. 100x faster TIFF handling supporting dozens of pages.
Selman Surface Logging
Monitor the status of all your wells from your mobile device. View real-time streaming data and sort wells by proximity to your location for up-to-date well logs.
- Real-time streaming data
- Well status monitoring
- Sort wells by proximity
- Mobile well log access
- Pocket-sized rig management
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Put the Rig in Your Pocket(TM) with Selman’s Mobile Application. Selman’s powerful new mobile app lets you check the status of all of your wells with our service from the palm of your hand. View Real-Time Streaming Data and sort all of your wells with our service by proximity to your location. Now it’s easier than ever to see the most up-to-date, near real-time well log at your fingertips!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Selman Surface Logging at 100% against Well Logs's 0%. Selman Surface Logging also leads on price (Free vs $8.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Selman Surface Logging is free to download; Well Logs costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Selman Surface Logging holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Well Logs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Selman Surface Logging's.
Well Logs ships an update every 5 weeks, Selman Surface Logging every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Well Logs | Selman Surface Logging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd | Selman & Associates |
Customer experience
Well Logs
Selman Surface Logging
In-app purchases
Well Logs
No in-app purchases
Selman Surface Logging
No in-app purchases
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