Barcode Scanners vs Cycle Check
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barcode Scanners
This app offers robust barcode scanning capabilities, supporting over 30 different types including QR, UPC, and Data Matrix. It provides powerful parsing for industry-standard formats like driver's licenses and GS1 codes, simplifying data extraction.
- Scan over 30 barcode types
- QR code scanning
- UPC scanning
- Data Matrix scanning
- GS1 code parsing
- Driver's license data parsing
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Barcode scanning made simple! Use this powerful app to easily scan over 30 different types of barcodes, including QR, UPC, GS1, Data Matrix, PDF417, DotCode, and many others. The Cognex Barcode Scanners application reads all major barcode symbologies, including Aztec Code, Codabar, Code 11, Code 25 (Interleaved, Industrial, COOP, Matrix and ITF-14), Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Data Matrix, DotCode, EAN, ISBN, GS1 DataBar, MaxiCode, MSI Plessey, PDF417, Micro PDF417, Postal Codes, QR Code (Micro and Standard), TELEPEN and UPC barcode types, as well as GS1 sub-types like GS1 QR Code, GS1 Data Matrix and GS1-128. The app also provides powerful parsers to examine industry standard formatted barcodes more easily such as AAMVA (US and Canadian Driver’s Licenses), GS1, IUID, Structured Carrier Messages (MaxiCode), and more! To learn more about Cognex's high-speed barcode scanning and computer vision solutions, visit https://www.cognex.com.
Cycle Check
Measure process performance directly from your smartphone. This tool simplifies cycle analysis, allowing you to document breakdowns and visualize performance over time. It helps assess process stability and adherence to customer takt time without manual recording.
- Cycle recording with stopwatch functionality
- Documentation of process breakdowns
- Graphical representation of cycle data
- Archiving and process assignment
- Calculation of customer, planned, and machine takt
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How stable is your process? How it performs over the time? Do your process running within the customer takt time? Measure the performance of a process with your smartphone, completely without the need for a stopwatch, paper and pen. We designed the app based on the classical 40-cycle analysis. If you are already using the 40-cycle analysis regularly to check your processes, you will save time in post-processing and evaluation, and the data will always be available. Lean Enthusiastic and interested people can test the app in their own company to see how stable the processes are running and how close to the customer tact.. The App has the following functions: • Cycle recording (stopwatch) • documentation of breakdowns during the analysis • Graphical representation of the cycle recordings • Archiving the recordings and assigning them to processes • Calculation of customer takt, planned takt and planned mashine takt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Barcode Scanners at none against Cycle Check's 3. Barcode Scanners also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 60%) and ratings volume (810 vs 2). Cycle Check's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Cycle Check sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Barcode Scanners asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cycle Check holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barcode Scanners has 810 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Barcode Scanners's written reviews are positive against 60% of Cycle Check's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Barcode Scanners ships an update every 5 months, Cycle Check every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barcode Scanners | Cycle Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (810 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 810 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cognex Corporation | Lean Partners Projekt Gesellschaft mbH&Co.KG |
Customer experience
Barcode Scanners
Cycle Check
Bugs and requests
Barcode Scanners
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashing after iOS 12.3.1 update
- Unable to scan certain barcode types (e.g. GS1 DataMatrix)
- Frozen camera view after initial scan
Requested features
4 requests- Option to disable tips/tooltips on startup
- Batch export/logging of scan history
- Ability to display non-readable characters
- Deeper Shortcuts integration
Cycle Check
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Barcode Scanners
No in-app purchases
Cycle Check
- 10 Measurements$1.99
- 20 Measurements$3.99
- 50 Measurements$7.99
Questions
Is Barcode Scanners free?
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