Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide vs Appenate Mobile Client
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide
This app offers a comprehensive suite of blasting tools and calculators for engineers. Access detailed product specifications, real-time updates, and essential blasting data, even offline. Features include custom calculators, unit conversions, and GPS functionality.
- Custom blasting calculators
- Product specifications and uses
- Real-time news and updates
- Unit conversions and definitions
- Offline accessibility
- Region and unit selection
- GPS with location saving
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Dyno Nobel's Explosives Engineers' Guide provides users with the full range of blasting tools and calculators. All Dyno Nobel product information is included and specific product specifications can be easily found and compared. Key Features Include: • Custom blasting calculators include: powder factor, overpressure prediction, rock and explosive charge per blasthole, wet hole, ground vibration prediction, scaled distance, presplit control, GPS and distance to the nearest structure. • Complete product specifications and application uses for Dyno Nobel products. • Real time Dyno Nobel updates are available through the News section including, press releases, videos, and news stories. • Unit conversions, blast design terminology, blasting definitions and formulas are all readily available. • Worldwide accessibility to all features, even in remote locations. Expanded Features in this Version Include: • A simpler, more essential look and feel, with the ability to adapt to refinements and changes to the latest smartphones on the most popular platforms. • The ability to select a region (America or South America) and preferred units (Imperial or Metric). The South America region is in Spanish and pulls that region’s specific Technical Data Sheets and other information from the Dyno Nobel South America website. • An updated GPS which not only includes maps with latitude, longitude and altitude, but also has the ability to save and compare any two locations. • An expanded calculator function which can now save results to a list and load past results from that list. • The ability to select individual product specifications to be compared in a dynamic format, allowing the user to see just the data he needs in simplified table. Another Practical Innovation from Dyno Nobel.
Appenate Mobile Client
This platform allows businesses to quickly create custom mobile applications for data collection and process management. It features a drag-and-drop builder, dynamic field types, and offline capabilities, enabling efficient data entry and real-time synchronization.
- Drag 'n Drop App Builder
- Dynamic field types (barcode, signature, GPS)
- Offline data collection
- Real-time data synchronization
- Customizable app appearance
- Data integration with existing systems
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Appenate is the rapid mobility platform for IT solutions providers, software vendors and enterprise. Mobilise business processes Surveys, inspections, product ordering, checklists and much more are fast and easy to mobilise with Appenate. Stop wasting time duplicating data entry back in the office, and get important information on your device in real-time. Drag 'n Drop App Builder Our visual design tools make it easy to create powerful apps fast. You can design screens for key use cases such as data entry, listing/lookup, quick links and item details. Customise app look and feel with your color scheme, icons and images. Seriously Dynamic Our tools offer deep and powerful functionality that enables a multitude of dynamic scenarios and use cases. Build screens from a variety of field types including barcode scanning, signatures, drawings, photos, video, audio, GPS and map locations. Add repeating sections, conditional logic, cascading lists, drill down details and more. Easily add your own custom logic to generate and control dynamic values, visibility and validation. If you know how to make an Excel formula, you’re good to go! Control what your users see in the app, even to the point of having separate start screens for different teams and departments. Built for Data Build apps that get real work done by plugging in data from your own systems and databases. We provide CSV, email and other connectors out of the box, with more being added all the time. You can also use our powerful integration API to push and pull data in real time. Our smart app technology is built for enterprise workloads, proven to handle thousands of data rows with great performance on your devices. Ready for Real Business Every app delivered on our platform is offline capable as a standard feature because we know internet connections are not always reliable when you are out in the field. Our intelligent technology securely caches all data on the mobile device and synchronises when connected. With Appenate, you can be sure your app is ready to go no matter the time or place. Easy Data Templates Many mobility scenarios call for immediate, formatted output of the data captured in the field. Whether it’s sending an invoice, generating a certificate or delivering a notice, our platform supports formatting the raw data values using a simple Word or Excel template. Generated output can be emailed as PDF, Word or Excel files with additional options available to send files to cloud storage services.
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Verdict
Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide and Appenate Mobile Client both sit at 3.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide's written reviews are positive against 44% of Appenate Mobile Client's. Appenate Mobile Client's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide against 3.3 for Appenate Mobile Client. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide's written reviews are positive against 44% of Appenate Mobile Client's.
Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide ships an update every 2 months, Appenate Mobile Client every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 20, 2026 and August 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide | Appenate Mobile Client |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (7 ratings) — better | 3.3 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dyno Nobel | Appenate Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide
Appenate Mobile Client
In-app purchases
Dyno Nobel Explosives' Guide
No in-app purchases
Appenate Mobile Client
No in-app purchases
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