Set Spotter vs SurlfBird
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Set Spotter
This augmented reality app uses your iPhone's camera to find sets in the card game Set®. It can highlight all visible sets or simply display the set count to help you decide when to deal more cards.
- Augmented reality set detection
- Highlights all visible sets
- Displays set count
- Adjustable highlight feature
- Camera-based card scanning
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Set Spotter turns your iPhone into an augmented-reality set finder for the card game Set®. Point the camera at a grid of cards and Set Spotter will highlight all the sets it sees. If you want to use it during a real game to determine if more cards should be dealt then you can turn off the highlight feature in the settings page and only the set count will be shown in the bottom left.
SurlfBird
This utility app extracts URLs from .url files on your iPhone or iPad. It then opens the URL directly in Safari, streamlining the process of accessing saved web links from your desktop.
- Extracts URLs from .url files
- Opens URLs directly in Safari
- Supports shared file storage integration
- Simple and lightweight utility
- No extra internet traffic
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SurlfBird solves a long-standing problem. You run a Windows desktop computer and an iPhone/iPad side by side. You use a shared file storage like ownCloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, WebDAV or something similar to transfer your data between the devices. This works fine for office documents, text documents. If, like me, you like to save URLs from internet sessions in your shared storage for later reading or as a reminder, you will find a .url file when viewing the replicated storage on the iOS device. You can copy its contents to the Notes application and click the link there. Now you have SurlfBird to help you. Just share the url file with SurlfBird and it will grep the URL from the .url file and open Safari with that URL. Very small and simple application, no extra internet traffic or anything.
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Verdict
Set Spotter and SurlfBird are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Set Spotter against 5.0 for SurlfBird. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Set Spotter | SurlfBird |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jorge del Alamo | Dokumenta (LU) |
Customer experience
Set Spotter
SurlfBird
In-app purchases
Set Spotter
No in-app purchases
SurlfBird
No in-app purchases









