Mouser vs NI Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mouser
Easily find and browse the latest semiconductors and electronic components for your designs. Search by category, date, or manufacturer, and view real-time stock availability. Build shopping baskets, manage projects, and access your account for order history and status.
- Browse new products by date, category, manufacturer
- Search and filter electronic components
- View real-time stock availability and pricing
- Build shopping baskets and manage projects
- Access My Mouser account for order history
- Barcode scanner for quick product lookup
- Bookmark products for quick access
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The Mouser app allows you to easily access the newest semiconductors and electronic components for your designs. Easily browse the newest products by date, category or manufacturer. Find products and view stock availability through a user-friendly search or built-in barcode scanner with the ability to build a shopping basket or project to checkout online. Use the app to access your My Mouser account to view order history, order details, and order status information. You can also bookmark products or add them to projects for quick access or to review offline. Always stay connected to Mouser and the newest products for your latest designs. Features: - Access your My Mouser account to view order history, details, and status - Find and view new products by category, date and manufacturer - Search for products by filtering and sorting results - Build a shopping basket by adding products from across the application - The product search tool allows you to refine your search and apply attributes to find components easily - Keep track of your projects by building groups of parts into separate lists - Scan Mouser's barcode to quickly find your product - Bookmark products for quick access - Store products and parts to view later in projects and bookmarks - View full product specification and up-to-date pricing - Find real-time stock availability - Conversion Calculators
NI Connect
This app provides a learning environment for engineers and scientists to enhance their skills in automated test and measurements. It features technical sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities with industry experts and peers.
- Learning environment for engineers and scientists
- Technical sessions and keynotes
- Hands-on workshops
- Product demonstrations
- Skills development tracks
- Networking with industry experts and peers
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Join thousands of engineers, scientists, and industry leaders around the region for the ultimate learning environment that gives you the tools and knowledge to increase your proficiency and develop your applications faster, smarter, and more cost-efficiently. From inspiring keynotes and technical sessions to interactive hands-on workshops and product demonstrations, NIDays showcases the latest advancements in automated test and automated measurements from NI experts, hundreds of our customers, and our expansive ecosystem. • Discover the best practices for success by attending the skills development tracks. • Collaborate with industry experts, LabVIEW Champions, and peers on techniques to help you succeed in building your custom-defined system. • Network with the best of the best. • Gather with colleagues from across the region to share applications and meet with NI R&D and product marketing leaders to discuss technology application questions, roadmaps, and project milestones.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NI Connect at 5.0 against Mouser's 2.4. Mouser's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
NI Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mouser has 34 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mouser ships an update monthly, NI Connect every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mouser | NI Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mouser Electronics | National Instruments |
Customer experience
Mouser
NI Connect
Bugs and requests
Mouser
Reported bugs
19 issues- Projects that exist on the website are not displayed in the app.
- Username is fine, but email doesn’t work for login
- The barcode scanned does not work. Anything you scan brings up a totally wrong product.
- Can’t be synced to user account
- Can’t login to mouser account
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- Sur les outils, les conversion sont impossibles avec les décimales car sur le pavé numérique est afficher une virgule(,) alors que le l’application ne fonctionne qu’avec le point.
- This app immediately logs you out when you go to “my orders”, basically rendering the core functionality completely useless
- Crashes when searching
- Carts do not sync with website
- The issues stated in the old reviews appear to have been fixed.
- The app cannot find Mouser part numbers that are immediately found using a desktop computer.
- App crashes every time I try to view component data sheets or documentation.
- Newest Products links in the iOS app do not work. They just bring you to the main menu.
- Can't access my cart in latest update.
- When you have so many products - it takes considerable effort to pare down to what you need. Then start adding to the cart. One mistaken press and you are doing it all over. It’s maddening.
- The app kind of opens the website within itself but also has a few of its own buttons so you’re never quite sure were you’re meant to click.
- If you want to buy a part you have to go to the Mouser web site.
- The app isn't iOS 7 optimized and really is only their website in a browser, aside from the scanner.
- Part number search takes you to a page in the catalog, instead of to the product description or part spec sheet.
Requested features
23 requests- Add support for saved baskets
- Add wire gauge calculator converter
- Ability to sign in to current account
- Add login/account feature for order history and saved projects
- Add sign in to accounts
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- Add update order status function
- Add filters and sorting
- Add categories, make UI near and clean
- Allow login and manage projects
- Add online buying and cart sharing
- Add parametric search
- Add pricing on results page
- Add sorting via price
- Add ability to log in to view projects
- Add filtering
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Add account integration
- Add ability to buy through the app with Mouser account
- Add ability to change language
- Add mobile-friendly UI
- Add ability to pick parts on mobile
- Add ability to zoom and pick parts
NI Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mouser
No in-app purchases
NI Connect
No in-app purchases
