Motion Detector LIVE vs RIDGID Thermal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Motion Detector LIVE
This application detects motion in real time and provides tools to manage captured images. Users can define motion areas, adjust sensitivity, and export or share images via email or FTP. It also offers features like delayed start, scheduling, and alarms.
- Live motion view
- Customizable motion areas
- Adjustable sensitivity
- Image export (gallery, email, FTP)
- Configurable image settings
- Delayed start and scheduling
- Alarm functionality
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Motion Detector LIVE! We offer you an application that handles motion detection in real time and allows you to work with stored images in many ways. Features: - live view of motion in real time - paint motion areas with your finger - sensitivity, falloff settings - export to gallery, send email, upload to FTP - image taking settings, delay between images and detections - delayed start - image resolution - day based scheduling - alarm - info and error hints
RIDGID Thermal
Connect to Wi-Fi enabled thermal imagers to transfer, analyze, and organize thermal images on your smartphone or tablet. Easily add measurements, annotations, and adjust color palettes before saving and sharing your findings.
- Wi-Fi image transfer
- Thermal image analysis
- Spot measurements
- Image annotations
- Temperature display
- Color palette adjustment
- Image sharing
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RIDGID Thermal works exclusively with RT-5x, RT-7x and RT-9x Wi-Fi enabled thermal imagers from RIDGID. The app allows seamless transfer of thermal images from the imager to your smartphone or tablet for analysis, organization and sharing. Create multiple spot measurements within an image, easily make annotations, and show the max and min temperatures within an area. It’s easy to navigate between the visual image and the thermal image and well adjust the thermal color palette displayed. Save images and analysis to your photo library and quickly share with others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RIDGID Thermal at Free against Motion Detector LIVE's $0.99. RIDGID Thermal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (26% vs 0%). Motion Detector LIVE's advantage is rating (2.4 vs 1.8) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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
RIDGID Thermal is free to download; Motion Detector LIVE costs $0.99 up front. Motion Detector LIVE sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RIDGID Thermal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Motion Detector LIVE holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RIDGID Thermal has 128 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Motion Detector LIVE's written reviews are positive against 26% of RIDGID Thermal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Motion Detector LIVE ships an update every 29 months, RIDGID Thermal every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Motion Detector LIVE | RIDGID Thermal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (9 ratings) — better | 1.8 (128 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 26.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 128 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lubomir Havran BINARTS | RIDGID Software Solutions |
Customer experience
Motion Detector LIVE
RIDGID Thermal
Bugs and requests
Motion Detector LIVE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RIDGID Thermal
Reported bugs
8 issues- App connects to network without permission
- App requests location access
- App doesn't take photos
- App doesn't detect heat
- App shows pre-taken photos
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- App black screen on launch
- App can't import photos
- App can't connect camera to wifi
In-app purchases
Motion Detector LIVE
- Image Export$1.99
RIDGID Thermal
No in-app purchases
Questions
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