Comparison

iBeams Pro vs sSLOPE

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

Head to head
About

iBeams Pro

This app allows engineers to quickly sketch beam designs and instantly view analysis diagrams for shear, moment, and deflection. It offers rapid modification and analysis, streamlining the design process for structural elements. The file format is compatible with its macOS counterpart.

Highlights
  • Instant shear, moment, and deflection diagrams
  • Sketch beam and loads like on a pad
  • Rapid modification and analysis
  • Imperial and S.I. units
  • Editable material and section properties
  • Cloud document storage
Features
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Unlike traditional design tools where you have to define nodes and elements to model your structure, iBeams Pro let's you work like you normally do. You sketch out your beam and loads like you would on a design pad, and instantly view shear, moment, deflection and reactions diagrams. It is very easy to modify and view variations, and you can rapidly analyze several beams in a matter of minutes rather than hours, allowing you to finish your designs more rapidly than ever before. The file format is compatible with iBeams Pro for macOS. Features include: • Beam diagrams with multiple loads and supports, and the corresponding shear, moment, deflection, and reaction diagrams • User editable properties • Imperial and S.I. (metric) units • Editable material and section properties (ships with AISC, BS5950, CISC, and AS/NZS databases) • Multiple supports • Multiple loads • Joints and Moment Releases • Annotations • synchronize preferences and property settings between macOS and iOS versions of this application • support for storing documents on Cloud shares

About

sSLOPE

Perform quick slope stability analyses on your mobile device. This app uses the simplified Bishop method to calculate the Factor of Safety for soil and rock slopes, supporting various conditions like water tables, external loads, and seismic forces.

Highlights
  • Analyze horizontally layered soil slopes (up to 7 layers)
  • Incorporate water table effects and ponded water
  • Apply vertical external loading
  • Model pseudo-static seismic loads
  • Simulate End Anchored and Soil Nail support
  • Adjust failure surface search limits
  • Utilize Mohr-Coulomb and Hoek-Brown strength criteria
  • Generate and email PDF reports
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sSLOPE is designed to perform a quick slope stability analysis on your phone device. sSLOPE is very simple and easy to use. sSLOPE uses the simplified Bishop method (method of slices) to discretize the soil/rock mass and determine the Factor of Safety (FOS). sSLOPE has the following features: • The stability of horizontally layered soil slope (up to maximum 7 layers) can be analyzed using the latest version (i.e. sSLOPE v3.0). • Water Table can be used for calculating pore pressure. The Water Table can also be used to define ponded water above the slope surface. • Vertical external loading (compression distributed pressure) can be easily applied to the upper slope of a model. • Pseudo-static seismic loads can be added to model by defining the seismic load coefficients in the horizontal and/or vertical directions. • The End Anchored and Soil Nail support can be used to model slope reinforcement. • Failure surface search limits can be modified to narrow down the search area to achieve better accuracy. • Both Mohr-Coulomb and Generalized Hoek-Brown strength criterion can be used to assess stability of soil and rock slopes. • The Settings Tab can be used to configure the main analysis parameters for the model, such as Units of Measurement, Project Title and etc. • The brief summary of analysis results and input data will be displayed in the Report Page. The report button, allows user to save the current model’s input and output information into PDF file. The generated report file can be sent out via email.

Screenshots

iBeams Pro4 screens
sSLOPE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: sSLOPE at $3.99 against iBeams Pro's $21.99. sSLOPE also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). iBeams Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iBeams Pro costs $21.99 and sSLOPE $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

sSLOPE holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iBeams Pro has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iBeams Pro ships an update every 4 months, sSLOPE every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iBeams Pro versus sSLOPE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriBeams ProsSLOPE
Price$21.99$3.99 — better
Rating3.7 (6 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 27 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNorm SchusterRoozbeh Geraili Mikola

Customer experience

iBeams Pro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

sSLOPE

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

iBeams Pro

No in-app purchases

None

sSLOPE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iBeams Pro free?
iBeams Pro costs $21.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is sSLOPE free?
sSLOPE costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iBeams Pro or sSLOPE?
sSLOPE is rated higher. iBeams Pro averages 3.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while sSLOPE averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do iBeams Pro or sSLOPE have ads?
Neither iBeams Pro nor sSLOPE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iBeams Pro or sSLOPE?
iBeams Pro ships an update every 4 months, and sSLOPE every 27 months. Most recently, iBeams Pro was updated on October 9, 2026 and sSLOPE on September 29, 2026.

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