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 every 6 weeks 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 every 6 weeks, Electronics World magazine every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 14, 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 | Every 6 weeks — 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 |
In-app purchases
Mouser
No in-app purchases
Electronics World magazine
No in-app purchases




