Mouser vs Electronics World magazine
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
Electronics World magazine
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Established in 1913 and formerly known as Wireless World – Electronics World is a monthly technical electronic engineering magazine aimed at professional design engineers. The editorial of Electronics World covers the full range of electronic industry activities including technology, systems, components, development tools, test, software and instrumentation. Electronics World informs, educates and advises by supplying readers with sufficient engineering detail to enable them to understand developments in the electronics industry as a route to their design problem solutions. Most of the features are contributed by leading engineers and academics in the field, who draw on the engineering resources and knowledge base of leading-edge companies and organisations, as well as their own projects.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mouser at monthly against Electronics World magazine's every 11 months. 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.
Mouser ships an update monthly, Electronics World magazine every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mouser | Electronics World magazine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (34 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 17.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mouser Electronics | Datateam Business Media Ltd |
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
Electronics World magazine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mouser
No in-app purchases
Electronics World magazine
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Mouser free?
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