Toolbox™ vs RTAB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Toolbox™
This app provides a collection of 12 essential utility tools for your iPhone, including a flashlight, magnifier, unit converter, and more. It offers a versatile and functional solution for everyday tasks and measurements.
- Adjustable flashlight with compass
- Magnifying glass with light
- Unit converter with currency exchange
- Tip calculator and bill splitter
- Fraction calculator
- Stopwatch with 1/100 second accuracy
- Spirit and surface level
- Ruler with sliders
- Protractor
- Battery information
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iMetalBox is the most elegant and handy toolkit ever created for your iPhone. Get 12 professional tools for the price of one! -------------------------------- User reviews: • "Nicely done ! Clever design and a must have for all. " - Dr5000 • "Pretty much any useful utility you'll need." - kfduv • "Versatile, functional, and easy to use." - MuzikGawd • "I love how the flashlight can be turned on as the first thing and that the light can be dimmed." - Reitveld • "This is my go to device for flashlight, stopwatch, levels, and it even has a built-in ruler." - grailpuffin • "Best compact app ever. It is very useful apps for daily use" - tinymoon -------------------------------- • Flashlight The brightest, fastest and most advanced flashlight for iPhone. It contains a compass and the brightness is adjustable. • Magnifier Transforms your phone into a magnifying glass with light. It will help you to read small text when you forgot your glasses. • Unit Converter Elegant and powerful unit converter with 16 categories. It can convert most currencies in the world. The exchange rate is updated frequently. • Tip Calculator Offer quick and easy way to calculate tips and split the bill among friends. Cash rounding is included for convenient. • Fraction Calculator Helps you to solve fraction maths quickly and easily. For example feet and inch calculator. • Stopwatch Great for timing sport events and contest. It has a hybrid design that combine both mechanic and digital stopwatch. Accurate to 1/100 second. Records can be copied to the clipboard. • Spirit level Use this tool to measure angles of any object. You can use this tool for picture alignment and home decoration. • Surface level Measure the slope of any flat surface such as pool table and table tops. • Ruler Support both inches and centimeters. It contains sliders to help measure small objects. • Protractor Measure angles from 0 to 180 degrees. Support degree and radian mode. • Battery Info Displays remaining time for various type of tasks such as surfing the internet or playing games. • Features: - A mini compass is included with the flashlight - Flashlight brightness is adjustable (iOS6 and later) - Authentic looking mechanical stopwatch - Calibrate and lock buttons for levels - Ruler with sliders for precise measurement
RTAB
This utility app enables real-time 3D scanning and mapping of environments using LiDAR or RGB-D sensors. It features online loop closure detection and map optimization for immediate feedback, with export options for various 3D formats.
- Online 3D scanning and mapping
- Loop closure detection and map correction
- Save maps in DB format
- Export in PLY, LAS, or OBJ
- Multi-session mapping
- AR/VR visualization mode
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RTAB-Map (Real-Time Appearance-Based Mapping) is an Open Source LiDAR / RGB-D / Stereo Graph-Based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) approach based on an online incremental appearance-based loop closure detector. The loop closure detector uses a bag-of-words approach to determinate how likely a new image comes from a previous location or a new location. When a loop closure hypothesis is accepted, a new constraint is added to the map's graph, then a graph optimizer minimizes the errors in the map in real-time. An optional memory management approach can be used to limit the number of locations used for loop closure detection and graph optimization, so that real-time constraints on large-scale environnements are always respected. ARKit's visual inertial odometry (VIO) is used as the SLAM front-end for RTAB-Map (the SLAM back-end). * Note that unlike other scanning apps that optimize the map only after mapping, with RTAB-Map you get loop closure detection and map optimization online so you can have a live feedback to know when you have enough constraints in the map for good global optimization before stopping the scan. *** 3D reconstruction available only with LiDAR sensor. Features: * Online 3D scanning/mapping of the environment. * Online loop closure detection and map correction. * Save in DB format (RTAB-Map desktop and rtabmap_ros format). * Export in PLY, LAS or OBJ. * Multi-session mapping (save and continue later). * Use Apriltags to help finding loop closures in textureless environments. * Mixed AR/VR First-Person in visualization mode. * Raw ARKit data recording (up to 60 Hz!), useful to record long sessions without comprising battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RTAB at Free against Toolbox™'s $1.99. RTAB also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Toolbox™'s advantage is ratings volume (4.3K vs 39) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
RTAB is free to download; Toolbox™ costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Toolbox™ against 4.8 for RTAB. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toolbox™ has 4.3K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Toolbox™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of RTAB's.
Toolbox™ ships an update every 2 months, RTAB every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toolbox™ | RTAB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.3K ratings) | 4.8 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.3K — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 14.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tue Nguyen Minh | Mathieu Labbe |
Customer experience
Toolbox™
RTAB
Bugs and requests
Toolbox™
Reported bugs
5 issues- Ruler measurements are inaccurate
- Magnifier tool not working
- Protractor not calibrating correctly
- Flashlight and strobe mode issues
- Currency converter not functioning
Requested features
5 requests- Add decimal point to calculator
- Improve accuracy of ruler and measurement tools
- Implement unit conversion for photo measurement
- Add countdown timer feature
- Optimize app for latest iPhone models
RTAB
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Toolbox™
No in-app purchases
RTAB
No in-app purchases









