iGeoBoardLite vs DB40X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iGeoBoardLite
This application allows users to create and manipulate various geometric figures, including points, lines, and circles. It offers tools for constructing parallel and perpendicular lines, lines at specific angles, midpoints, and intersections. It's a digital canvas for geometric exploration and design.
- Create points, lines, and circles
- Construct parallel and perpendicular lines
- Draw lines with specified angles
- Find midpoints between two points
- Calculate line and circle intersections
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GeoBoard is a wonderful 2D application and a talent drawing tool, which can help you create geometrical figures, points, circles, polygons and so on. It’s features are: 1. Create points, lines, circles and other basic graphic elements. 2. Create Parallel lines and Perpendicular lines. 3. Create lines with given angle. 4. Create midpoint for any 2 points. 5. Create the intersection of lines. 6. Create the intersection for lines and circles. Wish you like this app and please give feedback and suggestions which will help us to improve it. We will add more features in the future.
DB40X
A high-precision scientific calculator inspired by the HP48 series, offering arbitrary precision computations, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and graphing. It supports RPN and algebraic operations, with over 1000 built-in functions and a hyperlinked help system.
- Arbitrary precision computations
- RPN and algebraic operations
- Complex numbers, vectors, and matrices
- Graphing and plotting
- Engineering units and conversions
- Hyperlinked help system
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DB40X is a high-precision scientific calculator compatible with DB48X and inspired by the legendary HP48 series from Hewlett-Packard. It is not an emulator, but a redesign from scratch, which is faster, and delivers never seen before capabilities like computations in arbitrary precision. Like the original HP48, DB40X supports an unlimited stack, RPN and algebraic operations, complex numbers, based numbers, vectors, matrices, text, symbolic computations, numerical solving and integration, graphing and plotting, statistics, engineering units, and well over 1000 built-in functions. DB40X adds several HP50G capabilities, including a library of equations and constants covering mathematics, physics or chemistry. Using modern technologies, DB40X goes well beyond the original HP48 in many ways: - It is significantly faster, uses less memory, and features a higher-resolution 240x400 pixels graphical display. - Integer and decimal values can have an arbitrarily large number of digits, so you can compute log(pi) with 200 digits in a few keystrokes. - The six function keys feature up to three function per key, giving quick access to up to 18 related functions at a time. - Complex numbers can mix and match polar and rectangular form. - Symbolic operations extend to complex numbers, vectors and matrices. - Based numbers can be in any base from 2 to 36, and support any number of bits, making it easy to emulate a 23-bit or 512-bit processor. - Text is represented using Unicode instead of the proprietary HP encoding, facilitating data exchange with the rest of the world. - Multiple graphs can be distinguished using bitmap patterns. - Engineering units include all the modern evolutions of the SI system, and can be configured by the user, e.g. to integrate currency units with the exchange rate du jour. Converting between USD/hour and EUR/day has never been so easy! - A built-in hyperlinked help system documents functions simply by holding the corresponding key, and combine a quick start guide, a user manual and a reference manual. DB40X will run many user RPL programs as is. However, since it is not an emulator, it will not run any HP binary object, and notably will not run HP48 games or anything involving system RPL. Version 0.7.14 is an early-access release. Please consult https://github.com/c3d/db48x/blob/stable/doc/5-Unimplemented.md for a list of HP48 commands that are not yet implemented. DB40X is part of a family of compatible RPL calculators that include DB48X and DB50X. DB40X lacks the ability to write programs or data to disk, and RPL programs are limited to 40K.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DB40X at 67% against iGeoBoardLite's 0%. DB40X also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). iGeoBoardLite's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 14.0). 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.
iGeoBoardLite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DB40X has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of iGeoBoardLite's written reviews are positive against 67% of DB40X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iGeoBoardLite ships an update every 19 months, DB40X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iGeoBoardLite | DB40X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 帆 杨 | Christophe de Dinechin |
Customer experience
iGeoBoardLite
DB40X
In-app purchases
iGeoBoardLite
No in-app purchases
DB40X
No in-app purchases









