Gruff Automation vs BrickBack for LEGO® Sets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gruff Automation
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Control Your Electricity Costs: The Gruff Saver Socket is a Wi-Fi connected socket that monitors electricity prices and automatically turns on/off your devices to save you money during off-peak hours. Stop Overpaying for Electricity: Introducing the Gruff Saver Socket, the innovative way to take control of your electricity bills. This Wi-Fi connected socket seamlessly integrates with your home network and retrieves real-time market electricity prices. With this information, the Gruff Saver Socket can automatically switch on and off your plugged-in devices based on the current price per hour. This means your appliances will only operate during off-peak hours when electricity is cheapest, saving you money without any manual effort. Smart Savings, Simplified: The Gruff Saver Socket is easy to set up and use. Simply connect it to your Wi-Fi network and configure it through the user-friendly app. You can then choose which devices you want to connect to the socket and set personalized preferences for their operation based on electricity prices. The Gruff Saver Socket takes care of the rest, automatically optimizing your energy consumption and saving you money on your electricity bills. Benefits: Reduce your electricity costs by automatically using appliances during off-peak hours. Gain real-time insights into market electricity prices. Easy to set up and manage through a user-friendly app. Convenient and automated solution for saving energy. Gruff Saver Socket - Smarter Electricity Use, Lower Bills.
BrickBack for LEGO® Sets
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A LEGO® brick in your hand. Which set is it missing from? IDENTIFY THE PIECE Photograph a LEGO® brick: BrickBack identifies its number, name and color. Scan in sequence with one photo per piece; the camera stays open. Recognition uses Brickognize, an online service: scanning needs a connection and your agreement, which you can withdraw in Settings. MISSING FROM… BrickBack matches the piece with your incomplete sets and shows which need it, in which color and how many. WATCH IT PROGRESS Check off a piece you found and watch the set progress. At 100%, it joins your completed sets, dated the day you finished it. PIECES TO BUY “To buy” keeps one list of the pieces your sets still need, always up to date. Group it by set, color or piece type, exclude pieces already in your loose bricks, and export it to Rebrickable or a spreadsheet for free. BrickLink and Brick Owl exports, printing, filtering by set and choosing the order require Pro. NO PHOTO? SEARCH “Search for a piece” finds it by name, number or color. “Where is this piece from?” lists sets that contain it; it cannot tell which one your piece came from. MY LOOSE BRICKS Keep pieces outside your sets, even ones a set needs. From 20 pieces, BrickBack shows sets you may have pieces for. Edit quantities and filter by exact color in “Bricks”. Take a completed set apart: it stays among your completed sets. YOUR COLLECTION, ORGANIZED “Scan a box” reads the printed set number on your iPhone, without sending a photo, to add the set. Pro adds “Built”, tags, notes, “Sort & Filter”, wishlist management, and list imports and exports. “My wishlist” is in “Ideas”; text and image sharing stays free. “I bought it” is free within the set limit. WHERE TO BUY IT NEW With both your App Store account country and iPhone region set to France, or both to Germany, Pro compares dated new-set prices at several stores, excluding shipping. “Sets for less right now”, at the bottom of “Ideas”, explains each comparison, including a recorded price from the previous 30 days where applicable. Price alerts tell you when a wishlist set drops below your target price. Affiliate links may earn BrickBack a commission, without affecting store order or your price. YOUR DATA No account, no banners, no ad trackers. Download the catalog of over 28,000 LEGO® sets on first launch; then browse your collection offline. Full data backup is always free. Scanned photos go to Brickognize; enabling price alerts sends wishlist set numbers and target prices to our server. Pro's iCloud sync is designed to carry your collection between devices in your private iCloud space, which we cannot access. A signed-in iCloud account and available storage are required. FREE • Unlimited piece scanning • 2 sets in total, counted once and for all • Missing pieces, progress and “Pieces to buy”, with Rebrickable and spreadsheet exports • Piece search, possible set origins and box scanning • Three set ideas per theme • 30 different loose pieces, counted once and for all, and three sets you may have pieces for • Full data backup and restore within the free limits BRICKBACK PRO • Unlimited sets and different loose pieces • All set ideas, with filters • BrickLink and Brick Owl shopping-list exports, printing, set filtering and choice of order • Wishlist management, organization, list imports and exports (other than “Pieces to buy”) • New-set prices and price alerts (France, Germany) • iCloud sync Pro offers monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Your local price is shown before purchase. Cancel subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Lifetime does not renew. Catalog: Rebrickable. Recognition: Brickognize. Store prices: Affilizz. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this app. Privacy Policy: https://getbrickback.app/privacy-en Terms of Use: https://getbrickback.app/terms-en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gruff Automation at none against BrickBack for LEGO® Sets's 3. Gruff Automation also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). BrickBack for LEGO® Sets's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. BrickBack for LEGO® Sets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Gruff Automation asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gruff Automation ships an update every 6 weeks, BrickBack for LEGO® Sets every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gruff Automation | BrickBack for LEGO® Sets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Altos Engineering OU | REGIS THIERRY JEHL |
In-app purchases
Gruff Automation
No in-app purchases
BrickBack for LEGO® Sets
- BrickBack Pro$5.991 Month
- BrickBack Pro — annuel$39.991 Year
- BrickBack Pro à vie$69.99
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