Comparison

Acidity vs FastqLab

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

Head to head

Acidity

Free

🔧 Utilities

★ 4.210 ratingsView app →

FastqLab

NGS Quality Control Tool

Free

🔧 Utilities

No ratingsView app →

About

Acidity

This utility extension for Safari provides quick access to archived versions of web pages. It allows users to manually navigate to archives or set up automatic redirection based on custom regex patterns.

Highlights

Access archived page versions
Toolbar action for quick access
Regex matching for automatic navigation
Safari extension

Features

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Acidity is a Safari extension for navigating to archived versions of pages. Quickly access page archives through a button in the toolbar. Specify regex matches to automatically redirect certain sites to archives.

About

FastqLab

Features

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FastqLab is your pocket bioinformatician, designed for researchers and students to perform quick Quality Control (QC) on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data directly on your device.

Screenshots

Acidity2 screens

FastqLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Acidity at none against FastqLab's shown. FastqLab's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Acidity ships an update every 4 months, FastqLab every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level

Acidity versus FastqLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	Acidity	FastqLab
Price	Free	Free
Rating	4.2 (10 ratings) — better	—
Positive reviews	100.0% of reviews	—
Number of ratings	10 — better	—
Update frequency	Every 4 months	Every 2 months — better
Ads	No — better	Yes
In-app purchases	No	No
Monetization	Free	—
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better	iPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS	15.0	15.0
Further details — not scored
Size	8 MB	27 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Octalwise	Japality Limited

In-app purchases

None

Acidity

No in-app purchases

None

FastqLab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Acidity free?

Acidity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Is FastqLab free?

FastqLab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Do Acidity or FastqLab have ads?

FastqLab shows ads; Acidity does not.

Which is updated more often, Acidity or FastqLab?

Acidity ships an update every 4 months, and FastqLab every 2 months. Most recently, Acidity was updated on October 8, 2026 and FastqLab on October 20, 2026.