Toxic vs PoolLevels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Toxic
This app helps you manage your Instagram followers. It allows you to see who is not following you back and notifies you of unfollows. Some features require a subscription for full access.
- View followers and followings
- Identify unfollowers
- Get unfollow notifications
- Private data storage
- Secure IG connection
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Want to clean up your followers and see who's not following you back? Curious about who your boyfriend/girlfriend or anyone is following on Instagram? Toxic is here to help! Key Features: - View followers and followings easily for anyone* - Find out who's not following you back - Get notified when someone unfollows you - 100% private - all data stays on your device How to use Toxic: 1) Connect securely with IG 2) Enter the username of anyone on IG 3) See when they follow or unfollow someone new 4) Monitor your own account and find out who's not following you back * Viewing followers outside of yourself requires a subscription to Premium. — Privacy Policy: https://betoxic.notion.site/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://betoxic.notion.site/terms-of-service Contact: support@betoxic.app
PoolLevels
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Type in your pool test readings and PoolLevels tells you what the water is doing and the one thing to add. Most pool apps hand you a wall of numbers and a red or green face. PoolLevels computes the saturation index the way a water chemist would, says whether the water is corrosive, balanced or scaling, and gives you a single dose sized for your pool, with the arithmetic printed underneath so you can check it yourself. WHAT IT DOES Real carbonate chemistry. The saturation index from pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid and water temperature, using the Plummer and Busenberg equilibria and Davies activity coefficients, with the cyanurate correction most calculators leave out. One thing at a time. Not a list of six chemicals. One dose, sized for your pool's actual gallons, rounded to a precision you can measure with a jug. The working shown. Every recommendation prints the arithmetic that produced it, so you can see where the number came from instead of trusting it. Safe handling on every dose. Half first with the pump running, circulate, retest, then the rest. Never mix chemicals. Always acid into water. These are on the recommendation, not buried in a help page. Your history. Every reading you save, with the date you tested, so you can see whether last month's dose actually did anything. Strip capture and reading. Photograph a test strip and the app finds it in the photo, records each pad's colour, and can turn those colours into readings by matching them against the bottle's printed chart, corrected where we have paired that strip with a store test. Every reading taken from a photo is labelled as such, any pad whose colour sits far from every chart swatch is marked uncertain, and typing the numbers from a store test is always one tap away. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It will not guess. Leave out calcium hardness or cyanuric acid and it says so rather than assuming a number. That is not fussiness: omitting cyanuric acid moved a real sample by 0.18 and flipped its verdict from corrosive to balanced. A wrong answer delivered confidently is worse than no answer. It will not track you. No account, no sign in, no advertising. Your readings, your pool and your photos are stored on your phone and nowhere else. The app sends anonymous usage events, such as that a strip was read or the upgrade screen was opened, with no readings, no photos and no location. Purchases go through Apple. Delete it and the data goes with it. It is not a substitute for a test kit, a product label, or a professional. It calculates from the numbers you give it, or reads them from a strip. A strip reading is a first look, not a test kit result. Read the label on the chemical you are actually using, because concentrations differ between brands. Terms: https://poollevels.com/terms Privacy: https://poollevels.com/privacy
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Verdict
Toxic and PoolLevels are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Toxic sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per 7 days and PoolLevels sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Toxic ships an update weekly, PoolLevels every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toxic | PoolLevels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | By Internet Things LLC | ALSTIG INC |
Bugs and requests
Toxic
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatibility with some devices
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to see past unfollows and follows
- Dark mode option
PoolLevels
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Toxic
- $2.49 Weekly Subscription$2.497 Days
- $4.99 Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
- $4.99 Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
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- $6.99 Weekly Subscription$6.997 Days
- $9.99 Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- $24.99 Annual Subscription$24.991 Year
- $24.99 + No Trial Annual$29.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
PoolLevels
- PoolLevels Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- PoolLevels Pro Annual$41.991 Year
Questions
Is Toxic free?
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Do Toxic or PoolLevels have ads?
Which is updated more often, Toxic or PoolLevels?
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