Ruby Wireless Sensor vs AnySense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ruby Wireless Sensor
Connect to a compact wireless sensor to monitor mechanical structures. View real-time vibration data and manage the device via Bluetooth.
- Connect via Bluetooth
- Manage wireless sensors
- View real-time vibration data
- Monitor mechanical structures
- Ultracompact device integration
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The Ruby wireless sensor is a battery powered, ultracompact device that measures vibration signals in acceleration quantity on mechanical structures. This app allows users to connect to Ruby sensors via Bluetooth to manage the device and view RMS in real-time.
AnySense
This app allows users to collect multi-sensory data from their iPhone and external sensors. It supports offline data collection and online streaming to robots, as well as on-device policy evaluation with AR visualization.
- Multi-sensor data collection
- Bluetooth and wired sensor integration
- Offline data recording
- Online streaming to robots
- On-device CoreML policy evaluation
- AR visualization of predicted actions
- RGB and depth video recording
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AnySense is an open-source iPhone app that enables multi-sensory data collection by integrating the iPhone's sensory suite with external sensors via Bluetooth and wired interfaces, enabling both offline data collection and online streaming to robots. The app also supports on-device policy evaluation: you can load a trained CoreML policy, set a 3D goal in AR, and run the policy with AR visualization of predicted actions without a robot. We record RGB and depth videos, metric depth frames, streamed Bluetooth data (e.g. from tactile sensors) into a binary file, and timestamped pose data as a `.txt` file. Example streaming code for Bluetooth data can be found on AnySkin. USB streaming is supported by connecting the iPhone to your computer and using the library - https://github.com/NYU-robot-learning/anysense-streaming.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ruby Wireless Sensor at every 3 weeks against AnySense's every 2 months. Ruby Wireless Sensor also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.2 vs 17.0). AnySense's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
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 Ruby Wireless Sensor against 5.0 for AnySense. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Ruby Wireless Sensor ships an update every 3 weeks, AnySense every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ruby Wireless Sensor | AnySense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crystal Instruments Corporation | GRAIL NYU |
Customer experience
Ruby Wireless Sensor
AnySense
In-app purchases
Ruby Wireless Sensor
No in-app purchases
AnySense
No in-app purchases
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