Adobe Scout vs Screenwise Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adobe Scout
This utility app allows developers to profile and analyze the performance of their iOS applications directly from a mobile device. It provides insights into where an app spends its time, renders displays, and handles GPU operations for rapid debugging and optimization.
- Zero-code performance profiling
- Code sampler for time analysis
- Display list recording
- GPU recording for shader debugging
- Real-time performance tracking
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The Adobe® Scout mobile app is for developers using Scout, the new profiler and analysis tool from Adobe. Install Scout on your desktop, then run this app to profile your iOS apps. Features: • Instantly determine how your app is performing with zero code changes. • Code sampler shows you where your app spends its time. • Display list recording shows you what you rendered and how it performed. • GPU recording lets you step through every draw call and rapidly debug and optimize your shaders. “Adobe Scout is a game changer. Before, the R&D team only did sporadic profiling during development. With Adobe Scout, at any moment, we can track the performance and make the fix early on—saving time and getting our games to market faster.” -- Jean-Philippe Doiron, Principal Architect R&D, Frima Studio "Adobe Scout played a major role in performance optimization for the development of Farmville 2." -- Richard Rabbat, General Manager, Zynga
Screenwise Meter
This app allows registered participants in Google's market research programs to interact with physical meters and manage their participation. It simplifies checking in with devices like router meters and offers a convenient way to respond to surveys and policy updates.
- Interact with physical meters
- Check in with router meters
- Use TV Meter Remote
- Respond to surveys in-app
- Manage terms and privacy policy updates
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The Screenwise Meter iOS app enables registered panelists' participation in Google’s meter-based market research programs. A panelist is a member of a recruited group of people who have opted to participate in Google research and have consented to install meters and share their internet usage with Google. In return for their participation, panelists receive rewards. When a panel includes physical meters, like Router Meters or TV Meters, this app helps panelists interact with those meters. For example, the app handles checking in to the router meter, so panelists won’t be interrupted when they connect to Wi-Fi at home. It may include a TV Meter Remote so panelists can check in and out from the comfort of their chair. The Screenwise Meter iOS app also provides panelists with the convenience of answering our occasional surveys and agreeing to (or rejecting) terms and privacy policy updates in the app instead of visiting our online portal. For information about your own panel, refer to your research panel membership page. For more information about Google and market research panels in general, go to http://www.google.com/landing/panelresearch/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Screenwise Meter at 3.7 against Adobe Scout's 3.3. Screenwise Meter also leads on ratings volume (118 vs 8). Adobe Scout's advantage is review sentiment (56% vs 24%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Screenwise Meter holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Screenwise Meter has 118 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Adobe Scout's written reviews are positive against 24% of Screenwise Meter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Adobe Scout | Screenwise Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) | 3.7 (118 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better | 24.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 118 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adobe Inc. | |
Customer experience
Adobe Scout
Screenwise Meter
In-app purchases
Adobe Scout
No in-app purchases
Screenwise Meter
No in-app purchases
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