Portulator vs Elitech iCold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Portulator
This utility app helps winemakers calculate the precise amount of spirits needed to achieve a desired alcohol percentage in port wine. It offers two modes: one for fortified wines and another for port-style wines, also calculating residual sugar.
- Calculate spirits for fortified wines
- Calculate spirits for port-style wines
- Target alcohol percentage input
- Calculate residual sugar
- Input wine and spirit alcohol percentages
- Input must volume and Brix levels
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This app is a utility that calculates the amount of spirits to add to a wine to make a port wine of a target alcohol percentage. The first tab is for fortified wines where the user simply inputs the wine volume, wine alcohol percentage, spirits alcohol percentage, and the desired port wine alcohol percentage. The result is the volume of spirits to add to the wine. The second tab is for port-style wines. With a given must volume and a starting and ending Brix, one can calculate the amount of spirits to add for a target alcohol percentage and a given spirits alcohol percentage. The tab also calculates residual sugar after the addition of spirits.
Elitech iCold
This cloud-based platform allows remote, real-time monitoring of temperature, humidity, and location for sensitive goods during transport and storage. It ensures the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, food, and chemicals by providing constant condition updates.
- Cloud-based platform
- Remote real-time monitoring
- Temperature tracking
- Humidity tracking
- Location tracking
- Goods condition monitoring
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Elitech iCold is a cloud-based platform designed for Elitech wireless data loggers. You can monitor the temperature, humidity and locations of your goods remotely in real-time. To keep the efficacy and safety of your pharmaceuticals, vaccine, food and chemical goods requires proper handling at an accurate temperature during transportation and storage, Elitech iCold helps you always know where your goods are and in what condition.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Portulator at 100% against Elitech iCold's 48%. Portulator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Elitech iCold's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 20 months). On 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
Elitech iCold is free to download; Portulator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Portulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elitech iCold has 86 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Portulator's written reviews are positive against 48% of Elitech iCold's.
Portulator ships an update every 20 months, Elitech iCold monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Portulator | Elitech iCold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.3 (86 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 47.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 86 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mark Karasz | Elitech Technology,Inc. |
Customer experience
Portulator
Elitech iCold
Bugs and requests
Portulator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Elitech iCold
Reported bugs
59 issues- Password policy is weak
- Charts only show up to 100 degrees F
- Power consumption option doesn't work
- Cannot connect device to WiFi
- Repeated attempts to connect to WiFi fail
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- Fails to configure WiFi in Smartlink mode
- App suggests using Android instead of iPhone/iPad
- Lot of fields and messages in Chinese
- Humidifying element not working
- WiFi bug causing loss of connectivity
- Cannot record or see data logging history
- App broken in v61 update, not fixed
- Detailed settings page for STC1000 disappeared
- Functionality to change Temp and Humidity Settings removed
- Ability to adjust user parameters removed
- User parameters missing in latest update
- Cannot change parameters from phone after update
- New update makes it impossible to change anything from phone
- Cannot change parameters from phone anymore
- App update error, cannot change anything
- Cannot change parameters from phone anymore after update
- RCW-360 never worked
- App crashes often
- Impossible to add devices
- Bluetooth function obsolete
- Device will not come online to phone
- Device will not pair to WiFi
- Cannot register, code not sent via email
- Cannot sign up, code not sent to email
- Device does not work and won't connect to Wi-Fi
- Cannot get devices to connect to network or Bluetooth
- Device will not change from C to F
- Knocked offline, have to manually reconnect
- Cannot find where to put device back online
- Device does not flash WiFi indicator on power up
- Device will not link to WiFi
- Manual does not tell how to set up mode
- Cannot make WiFi device work
- Cannot log in, possibly server issues
- Cannot register, does not send code
- Cannot enter mobile number, says incorrect
- Old controllers not working after new update
- Devices that were not in use won't respond
- Devices in use won't turn on/off, parameters won't change
- App will not save temp or humidity parameters
- App changed, devices offline, temp fault
- Bluetooth function required for first-time WiFi connection
- App will not let you select a network to login
- Cannot type to enter wireless network name
- Username already exists error, then user does not exist error
- WiFi option to connect from PC doesn't work
- Cannot connect to iPhone
- Cannot connect to WiFi
- Cannot tap on field to select SSID
- Grey text is too dark and small
- Difficult to add devices
- App DOA, cannot get confirmation code emailed
- App takes WiFi network name from device, but must be 2.4GHz
- App requires Bluetooth for first-time WiFi connection
Requested features
13 requests- Option to use Google, Yahoo, iCloud for login
- Schedule on/off option
- Intermittent on/off option for fans
- Option to show humidity reading on main screen
- Scheduling for different temperature settings (day/night)
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- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to switch language
- Fix checkbox out of screen issue
- Add user manual to the app
- Make WiFi symbol more intuitive
- Improve UI design
- Fix spelling mistakes
In-app purchases
Portulator
No in-app purchases
Elitech iCold
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Portulator free?
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