OptikamPad vs Murmel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OptikamPad
This app assists opticians with eyewear dispensing by capturing precise measurements from a single image. It also allows customers to virtually try on frames and interactively explore lens benefits through demonstrations.
- Eyewear measurements from one image
- Frame selection picture comparison
- Interactive lens demonstrations
- Augmented reality lens demos
- Multi-lingual support
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Optikam on the iPad. OptikamPad is your complete eyewear dispensing assistant. FEATURES: • EYEWEAR MEASUREMENTS WITH ONE IMAGE* The OptikamPad app allows you to capture all eyewear measurements using one single frontal image. This portable solution offers you precise, quick and complete measurements. Using our patented EY-stick, you can be taller or shorter than the patient and capture precise measurements. This is the only solution on the market where you will not need to be at the same eye level to capture the measurement image. Measurements captured: Monocular PDs, Seg. Heights, Pantoscopic Tilt, Rear Vertex Distance, Wrap, A, B, ED, DBL. • FRAME SELECTION PICTURE COMPARISON The Frame Selection module enables customers to see how they look like in different eyewear. The side-by-side image comparison exposes the customer to frames of different styles, resulting in an increase in multiple-frame sales. Email and Facebook features provide quick second opinions. • INTERACTIVE LENS DEMONSTRATIONS* Complement your lens sales presentations with interactive demonstrations. The Lens Demos module allows you to demonstrate the advantages of premium lens options in a quick and interactive way. Demos available: AR Coating, High-Index, Photochromic, Polarization, Progressives, Color Tints. • AUGMENTED REALITY DEMOS* Use the camera lens on the iPad and show how one can see through different lens options. You can build your lens by selecting the lens type, the coating and tints and very effectively compare two lens configurations. Multi-Lingual Support: English, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish --------------------------------------- * Compatibility requirements: The Optikam Flash Accessory is required for eyewear measurements, lens demonstrations and augmented reality demos.
Murmel
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Said, noted. Speak an idea and the entry is ready. Murmel records, writes along and files a clean entry: title, note, due date and the right category. No account, no sign-in, no subscription. Transcript and sorting run on your iPhone, with Apple's speech recognition and Apple Intelligence. TALK INSTEAD OF TYPING One tap on the microphone and you're recording. The text appears live while you speak. You can also record with the Action button, Siri, the Shortcuts app or the quick menu on the app icon. Done before the processing is? Drop the recording in the queue and keep talking. TASK, REMINDER OR IDEA, RECOGNIZED BY ITSELF Apple Intelligence sorts and phrases each kind differently: a task gets an action as its title, a reminder keeps names and numbers word for word, an idea stays as open as you said it. After recording you see the result and save it with a tap, or change it first. DUE DATES FROM WHAT YOU SAID "Next Tuesday" becomes a date. The app does the math, the model doesn't guess. TAGS THAT ARE RECOGNIZED Create a tag for a project, a person or a place once, and next time it's set automatically. RECORD ON YOUR WRIST Complication, Control button or the Watch app. If the iPhone is away, the recording waits on your wrist and goes as soon as it's back. MANY LANGUAGES Murmel understands the languages Apple's speech recognition knows on your iPhone, and you choose with a single setting. MURMEL PRO Murmel is free: unlimited recording, transcript, sorting, tags, Watch and Shortcuts. A one-time purchase, no subscription, unlocks two things: • Your own server: your own Whisper server transcribes, on your home network or over the internet. More accurate with dialects. • Reminders: every entry also lands in Apple Reminders, one list per kind, and the checkmark works both ways. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracker. Without your own server, no recording and no text leaves your device. With your own server, the recording goes only there, never to us. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 26, Apple Watch with watchOS 26. Apple Intelligence is recommended; without it Murmel keeps working with simpler rules. Privacy: https://murmel.bognar.net/en/privacy/ Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OptikamPad at none against Murmel's 1. OptikamPad also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Murmel's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Murmel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OptikamPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
OptikamPad ships an update monthly, Murmel weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OptikamPad | Murmel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.2 GB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Optikam Tech Inc. | Peter Bognar |
In-app purchases
OptikamPad
No in-app purchases
Murmel
- Murmel Pro$12.99









