Comparison

Ola Radio vs Ham Engineering

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

Head to head
About

Ola Radio

This app simplifies walkie-talkie management with features like facility management, configuration scheme management, and community management. It offers one-click sharing of frequency schemes for convenient intelligent communication.

Highlights
  • Walkie-talkie facility management
  • Configuration scheme management
  • Community management
  • One-click frequency scheme sharing
  • Intelligent communication
Features
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Ola Radio is a convenient and easy-to-operate walkie-talkie intelligent management tool. It integrates walkie-talkie Facility Management, configuration scheme management, community management, and has one-click sharing of the same frequency scheme and other special functions. Fully meet your walkie-talkie daily management needs and take you easily into a new era of convenient intelligent communication.

About

Ham Engineering

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Ham Engineering is the engineering bench for amateur radio — antenna and feedline maths, circuit design, propagation and a deep reference library, all completely offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, and not a single network call. ANTENNAS • Half-wave dipole with adjustable k (velocity) factor, quarter-wave and 5/8-wave verticals, ground-plane radials, end-fed half-wave, random wire, full-wave loop and a 3-element Yagi estimator • Matching: L-network, Pi-network, quarter-wave transformer, balun/unun ratios and stub matching • Antenna Lab — a live elevation radiation-pattern plot with directivity, realized gain, takeoff angle, beamwidth, front-to-back, mismatch loss, feedline loss and system gain, each explained • Grid Compass that rotates with your phone, showing beam bearing and distance from your grid to a target grid • Antenna gallery — every common type drawn as scalable vector art, with what it is, what it is for and what to watch out for FEEDLINES & RF • Coax loss by cable type, frequency and run length; velocity-factor electrical length • SWR from forward/reflected power, plus return loss and mismatch loss • Antenna A/B comparison and receiver noise-floor estimation • RF power conversions: dBm, watts, ERP and EIRP • Propagation: free-space path loss, radio horizon and Fresnel-zone clearance • NanoVNA and tinySA quick-start guides, and a coax + connector gallery CIRCUITS • Ohm's law, series/parallel resistance, voltage dividers, RC and RL time constants • Reactance, LC resonance, Q and bandwidth, stored energy • RC and LC filter cutoffs, a constant-k Pi/T filter designer, a bandpass/notch calculator and a Butterworth low-pass designer • Resistor, capacitor and inductor code decoders, an AWG wire table and a 555 timer calculator • A live RLC resonance lab and a 50-part component gallery REFERENCE & EXTRA • Filterable amateur band plan for ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3 • Unit converters including watts, dBm and microvolts • Comparison tables for coax, connectors, antennas and batteries • Tools-and-gear and rig-controls galleries — what every knob and button is called across manufacturers • Maidenhead grid tools and great-circle beam headings • 300+ searchable tips, 40+ formulas, a rich glossary and a constants reference • Curated external links to major retailers, brands and references BUILT FOR THE BENCH • Nearly 200 illustrations drawn as scalable vector art — nothing to download, everything sharp at any size • Works fully offline. The app makes no network calls at all • Export any panel or diagram as a theme-aware image to share or file • An (i) explanation on every panel — this is a tool and a guide, not a quiz • Light and dark themes, adjustable font size, weekly tips and in-app version history • Your callsign, grid and email stay on your device and are never transmitted PERFECT FOR • Licensed operators designing, building and tuning antennas • Anyone putting up a first dipole or vertical and wanting the numbers right • Homebrewers and kit builders working with filters, matching and components • SWLs and newcomers who want the reference material without the exam drill • Club elmers and anyone teaching antenna and RF fundamentals PRIVACY • Your callsign, grid and email are stored only on your device. • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics SDKs, no advertising ID and no tracking of any kind. 73 de A41UX Yousuf AL Balushi — Unixeer, Oman

Screenshots

Ola Radio4 screens
Ham Engineering4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ola Radio at every 8 days against Ham Engineering's every 3 weeks. Ham Engineering's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ola Radio ships an update every 8 days, Ham Engineering every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ola Radio versus Ham Engineering: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOla RadioHam Engineering
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (56 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB21 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer福建宝锋电子有限公司Yousif AL Balushi

In-app purchases

None

Ola Radio

No in-app purchases

None

Ham Engineering

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ola Radio free?
Ola Radio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ham Engineering free?
Ham Engineering is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ola Radio or Ham Engineering have ads?
Neither Ola Radio nor Ham Engineering shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ola Radio or Ham Engineering?
Ola Radio ships an update every 8 days, and Ham Engineering every 3 weeks. Most recently, Ola Radio was updated on November 8, 2026 and Ham Engineering on October 25, 2026.

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