SolaRue vs SPD Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SolaRue
This app helps you track your daily sunscreen application with a gamified approach. Earn achievements and receive timely reminders to ensure your skin stays protected. Watch a character grow as you consistently log your sunscreen use.
- Daily sunscreen logging
- Gamified experience
- Helpful tips
- Exciting achievements
- Timely notifications
- Character growth
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SolaRue is a daily tracking app for sunscreen usage. Gamified for all ages with helpful tips, exciting achievements, and timely notifications. Help Rue grow and protect her petals by logging your sunscreen usage every day!
SPD Events
This app provides attendees with access to conference details, including presentations and exhibitor information. Users can connect with other attendees, take notes on presentation slides, and draw directly on them.
- Access conference details
- View presentations
- Connect with attendees
- Take notes on slides
- Draw on presentation slides
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**FOR ATTENDEES ONLY** This mobile application allows you to access conference details. Within the underlying event apps, users can access presentations, exhibitors, and connect with other attendees. Users can also take notes adjacent available presentation slides and draw directly on slides inside the event apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SolaRue at every 2 months against SPD Events's every 4 months. SPD Events's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SolaRue against 4.9 for SPD Events. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SPD Events has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SolaRue ships an update every 2 months, SPD Events every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | SolaRue | SPD Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sophia Xu | Society for Pediatric Dermatology |
Customer experience
SolaRue
SPD Events
In-app purchases
SolaRue
No in-app purchases
SPD Events
No in-app purchases
Questions
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