Comparison

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer vs Geo Trace

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

Head to head
About

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer

This professional tool helps you tune satellite antennas by displaying available satellites for your location. It includes a comprehensive database of global TV and radio satellite transponders, allowing you to easily find satellite parameters and calculate alignment angles.

Highlights
  • Satellite alignment pointer
  • Transponder database
  • Smart satellite search with sound
  • Azimuth, Elevation, LNB Skew calculation
  • Extensive channel and provider data
  • Push notifications for database updates
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SatFinder PRO HD is a professional tool for tuning your satellite antenna. Description: You no longer need to search for desired satellite, just press "Power" button, point your iOS device towards the sky and watch all available satellites of your location. This program also is a transponders data base of all TV/RADIO satellites in the world. You can easily find a satellite parameters. Features: - Sort by satellite - Search by channel name, radio name, provider name - Sort by frequency - Sort by Ku & C -bands - Displaying the channel name, radio station, a provider with the link to the official site, encoding display - Displaying a frequency, polarization, FEC and Symbol Rate - Azimuth, Elevation, LNB Skew angels for the desired satellite - Smart satellite search with sound indication - Manual compass for iPods - Push notifications about database update every 10 days! - List of favorites - Satellite calculator An enormous data base. More than 12,800 video channels, 3900 radio stations and 180 Internet service providers Usage instructions: - For best accuracy hold your device in portrait position - Tap on "Power" button - Make some device movements for compas calibration if needed - Look at device display and try to get 180° at "Heading" indicator if you are in the northern hemisphere and 0° if you are in the southern hemisphere. All available satellites should be appear - Now you can easily move your device and find desired satellite. It wiil be a real satellite position in the sky Also available lite version without augmented reality feature at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/satellite-transponders-hd/id600003568/

About

Geo Trace

This app provides a visual traceroute tool for WiFi and mobile networks. It displays network routes, measures transit delays, and helps diagnose connection speed and stability. It also features a geo map for node geolocation and works with VPN connections.

Highlights
  • Visual traceroute
  • Network diagnostic tool
  • Measures transit delays
  • Geo map for node geolocation
  • Works with VPN connections
  • Monitors network traffic
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Geo Trace — a simple visual traceroute tool and network diagnostic app for WiFi and mobile networks, displaying possible routes and measuring transit delays of network IPv4 or IPv6 packets. The history of the route is recorded as the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remote node) in the route. The sum of the mean times in each hop is a measure of the total time spent to establish the connection and perform a ping. Geo Trace traces the network route unless all sent packets are lost more than twice. You can check the speed and stability of your connection, as well as set up your home and corporate WiFi networks that use different types of connections: 4G, 5G, LTE, DNS server or ISP equipment. The utility adapts to any environment. Geo Trace features a geo map for node geolocation and visualization of every ping attempt. It also works with VPN connections. Download Geo Trace and monitor your network traffic!

Screenshots

Geo Trace3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Geo Trace at fortnightly against SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer's every 4 months. Geo Trace also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and price ($1.90 vs $2.99). SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer's advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer costs $2.99 and Geo Trace $1.90 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer against 4.3 for Geo Trace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer's written reviews are positive against 38% of Geo Trace's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer ships an update every 4 months, Geo Trace fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer versus Geo Trace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSatFinder Pro HD Dish PointerGeo Trace
Price$2.99$1.90 — better
Rating4.3 (11 ratings)4.3 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.6% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1111
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYuriy KvashaTamara Dudarenko

Customer experience

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive53.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative39.3%

Geo Trace

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

In-app purchases

None

SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer

No in-app purchases

None

Geo Trace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer free?
SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Geo Trace free?
Geo Trace costs $1.90, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer or Geo Trace?
Geo Trace is rated higher. SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer averages 4.3 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Geo Trace averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer or Geo Trace have ads?
Neither SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer nor Geo Trace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer or Geo Trace?
SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer ships an update every 4 months, and Geo Trace fortnightly. Most recently, SatFinder Pro HD Dish Pointer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Geo Trace on November 3, 2026.

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