Comparison

SUNSCAN vs VeinScan

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

Head to head
About

SUNSCAN

Features
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The Sunscan is a revolutionary spectroheliograph designed to allow you to capture images of the Sun in minutes, directly from your smartphone. This complete and autonomous device is the result of several months of work by our team of enthusiasts. With the Sunscan, you will be able to explore the wonders of the Sun like never before. Thanks to our dedicated application, you will be able to control the Sunscan directly from your smartphone or tablet, making the experience even more intuitive and accessible. You will be able to make observations very simply and obtain images of our star automatically without any special knowledge, showing prominences, flares or even sunspots.

About

VeinScan

Features
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VeinScan turns your iPhone camera into a live vein visualiser. It analyses every frame, recombines the colour channels into a narrow synthetic wavelength band, and boosts local contrast - so the veins beneath the skin stand out clearly on screen. HOW IT WORKS A camera sees the world through wide red, green and blue channels. VeinScan mixes those channels into a much narrower band that you tune yourself, anywhere from 500 to 1000 nm. It then flattens uneven lighting, applies adaptive local contrast enhancement, and filters out fine hair, leaving a high-contrast live map of the vessels under the skin. PIN IT IN PLACE WITH AR Found a good view? Tap ANCHOR and the enhanced image is pinned in 3D space, right over the arm. Built on ARKit - and on the LiDAR scanner where the device has one - the anchored image stays locked in position while you move the phone around it and look from another angle. Optional hand tracking follows the limb if it shifts. FEATURES - Live spectral enhancement, tunable from 500 to 1000 nm - Four view modes: Normal, Spectrum, Inverse and Vessels - Adjustable bandwidth, contrast, illumination flattening and hair filtering - AR anchoring - pin the enhanced image in 3D space and walk around it - Hand tracking keeps anchors aligned when the limb moves - LiDAR depth and surface fitting on supported devices - Exposure bracketing for steady shots - Torch control, freeze frame, zoom and adjustable overlay opacity - Collapsible control panel for a full-screen preview - English and Hungarian PLEASE READ VeinScan is an experimental visualisation tool. It is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, measure or treat anything, and it is not intended for any clinical or diagnostic use. What you see is a contrast-enhanced camera image, and how well it works depends a great deal on lighting, skin tone and which iPhone you are using. Never rely on it for a medical decision. PRIVACY Everything runs on the device. VeinScan has no account, needs no network connection, and never collects, stores or transmits your images or any personal data.

Screenshots

SUNSCAN3 screens
VeinScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: SUNSCAN at 3 against VeinScan's 1. SUNSCAN also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
SUNSCAN versus VeinScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSUNSCANVeinScan
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSTAROSPeter Molnar

In-app purchases

None

SUNSCAN

No in-app purchases

None

VeinScan

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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