Comparison

IoT Central vs IoT NET

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

Head to head
About

IoT Central

Features
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With this app you can create an easy to use IoT Dashboard for you and your client. Features: 1. Can run as always on Dashboard. 2. Supports both MQTT (TCP) and Websocket protocol. 3. SSL for secure communication. 4. JSON Support for both subscribe and publish message. 5. Panels subscribe and / or publish the topic automatically, hence get updated in real time. 6. Designed to work with public broker efficiently (using device prefix). 7. Sent and Received timestamp from broker. 8. Material design. 9. Flexible panel width, merge any panels 10. More than 250 icons to customize specific panels. 11. Dark theme for comfortable use in low light. 12. Clone connection, device or panel for effortless configuration 13. Import/Export application configuration for easy share with multiple devices. 14. Re-connects automatically if connection lost. 15. Persist export message for log and graph. Available panels: -Button -Slider -Switch -LED Indicator -Combo Box -Radio Buttons -Multi-State Indicator -Progress -Gauge -Color Picker -Time Picker -Text Input -Text Log -Image -Barcode Scanner -Line graph -Bar graph -Chart -URI Launcher This list will grow upon feedback from users. Your feedback is much appreciated. If you find any issue please feel free to leave a comment in my blog with steps to reproduce. https://blog.snrlab.in/iot/iot-mqtt-panel-user-guide/

About

IoT NET

Features
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IoT NET is an IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports integration OPC-UA, AWS, Azure, RabbitMQ and many other. IoT NET combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data. Provision and manage devices and assets Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities in secure way using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between your devices, assets, customers or any other entities. Collect and visualize data Collect and store telemetry data in scalable and fault-tolerant way. Visualize your data with built-in or custom widgets and flexible dashboards. Share dashboards with your customers. SCADA High-performance Monitor and control your industrial processes in real time with SCADA. Use SCADA symbols on dashboards to create and manage any workflow, offering full flexibility to design and oversee operations according to your requirements. Process and React Define data processing rule chains. Transform and normalize your device data. Raise alarms on incoming telemetry events, attribute updates, device inactivity and user actions. Microservices Construct your IoT NET cluster and get maximum scalability and fault-tolerance with microservices architecture.

Screenshots

IoT Central4 screens
IoT NET4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: IoT NET at 12.0 against IoT Central's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
IoT Central versus IoT NET: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIoT CentralIoT NET
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRahul KunduSCSAutomation

In-app purchases

None

IoT Central

No in-app purchases

None

IoT NET

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IoT Central free?
IoT Central is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IoT NET free?
IoT NET is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IoT Central or IoT NET have ads?
Neither IoT Central nor IoT NET shows ads.

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