Comparison

iGeoBoardLite vs DB40X

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Arbitrary precision computations
  • RPN and algebraic operations
  • Complex numbers, vectors, and matrices
  • Graphing and plotting
  • Engineering units and conversions
  • Hyperlinked help system
Features
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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.

Screenshots

DB40X3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iGeoBoardLite versus DB40X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriGeoBoardLiteDB40X
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer帆 杨Christophe de Dinechin

Customer experience

iGeoBoardLite

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

DB40X

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

iGeoBoardLite

No in-app purchases

None

DB40X

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iGeoBoardLite free?
iGeoBoardLite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DB40X free?
DB40X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iGeoBoardLite or DB40X?
iGeoBoardLite is rated higher. iGeoBoardLite averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while DB40X averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do iGeoBoardLite or DB40X have ads?
Neither iGeoBoardLite nor DB40X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iGeoBoardLite or DB40X?
iGeoBoardLite ships an update every 19 months, and DB40X every 3 weeks. Most recently, iGeoBoardLite was updated on June 5, 2026 and DB40X on June 4, 2026.

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