Comparison

SensorDeck vs Shortcutter HTTP Helper

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

Head to head
About

SensorDeck

Features
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SensorDeck - Pro ThingSpeak Dashboard & Alerts Unlock the full potential of your ThingSpeak IoT projects with SensorDeck! Whether you're a hobbyist, a student or an IoT professional, SensorDeck lets you monitor, analyze and act on your sensor data from iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch — anywhere, anytime. Tired of clunky web pages on your phone? SensorDeck is a native app built for Apple devices: clean, fast and full-featured. No account needed — it reads your ThingSpeak channels directly. New in v1.5.0: SensorDeck now keeps an eye on your sensors beyond the app. BEYOND THE APP • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: Put any sensor on your Home or Lock Screen with its latest value and recent trend. Widgets refresh on their own, even when the app is closed. • Apple Watch app: Patrol every sensor from your wrist. Sensors in alert or offline are listed first; tap one to see its value, trend and high/low. A haptic at the end tells you "all clear" or "something is wrong". • Watch complications: Put a sensor right on your watch face. • Shortcuts automations and Siri: Check your sensors on a schedule and get notified only when something is wrong, or turn on an air purifier or fan when a value runs high. You can also ask Siri: "Get a sensor reading from SensorDeck". SMART ALERTS • Six conditions: greater than, less than, outside a range, inside a range, rapid change, and sensor offline (stopped reporting). • Advanced options: quiet hours, a minimum repeat interval, back-to-normal notices, and custom messages with the channel, value and time. • Many channels: local push notifications, a Telegram bot, and universal Webhooks (Discord, Slack, IFTTT or your own API). • Monitors every channel at once, not only the one on screen. • Alerts are checked while the app is open with auto-refresh on. When the app is closed, pair it with a Shortcuts automation for scheduled checks. PRO-GRADE CHARTS • Built on Apple Charts, with line, area and bar charts and touch to inspect any data point. • Time ranges from 10 minutes to 1 week. Time labels adapt automatically, and every field in a channel shares the same time axis for easy comparison. • Long ranges load in parts with progress, and the chart fills in as data arrives. • Live statistics: maximum, minimum and average for any time range. • When a range has no data, SensorDeck explains why and shows when the channel last reported. DATA MANAGEMENT • Choose how long data is kept on your device (6 hours to 7 days) and view recent data even offline. • CSV export: export one channel or all of them, using a preset or custom range of up to one year, downloaded from ThingSpeak on demand. • iCloud sync: alert rules and chart styles sync automatically between your iPhone and iPad. • QR codes: scan or share channels to add them quickly. DESIGN AND LANGUAGES • An animated background and a carefully tuned dark interface. • The app, widgets, Apple Watch and Siri fully support English, Traditional Chinese and Japanese. FREE AND PREMIUM The free version includes 1 channel, basic alerts (greater than / less than) and the small Home Screen widget. Premium — a one-time purchase, not a subscription — removes ads and unlocks unlimited channels, advanced alerts, Telegram and Webhook notifications, medium and Lock Screen widgets, the full Apple Watch list and complications, Shortcuts and Siri, and CSV export and data management. Stop guessing, start knowing. Download SensorDeck and take full control of your IoT data!

About

Shortcutter HTTP Helper

This tool simplifies creating and testing HTTP requests on iOS devices. Save requests with URLs, methods, headers, and JSON bodies for easy execution via the app, Shortcuts, or Siri. It offers multiple ways to edit JSON bodies and clean up responses for seamless integration.

Highlights
  • Save and reuse HTTP requests
  • Edit JSON bodies via fields, raw text, or Gemini structure
  • Run requests within the app, Shortcuts, or Siri
  • Clean up AI responses to plain text
  • Private by design, no account or analytics
  • Supports iPhone and iPad
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Shortcutter is a focused tool for people who build and test HTTP requests on iPhone and iPad — without fighting the Shortcuts editor. Save a request once — URL, method, headers, and a JSON body — then run it whenever you need it: tap Send in the app, add it to the Shortcuts app, or trigger it with Siri. Edit the body the easy way and every run uses your latest value. THREE WAYS TO EDIT A JSON BODY • Fields — add and remove keys and pick each value's type (string, number, boolean, null). The fast way to tweak flat parameters. • Raw — edit JSON directly with live validation and a one-tap Format button. • Gemini — a structured editor for Google Gemini generateContent bodies: model, system instruction, conversation turns, generation settings (temperature, top-p/k, tokens, stop sequences, thinking config), tools, function-calling mode, and per-category safety thresholds. A body that already looks like a Gemini request opens in this mode automatically. RUN IT ANYWHERE • Send in the app and inspect the status code, response headers, and body. • Add the "Perform Saved Request" action in the Shortcuts app and pipe the response into any other action. • Say "Run a request with Shortcutter" to Siri. CLEAN UP THE RESPONSE Turn on "Unwrap to plain text" to concatenate chunked AI responses and unwrap JSON envelopes like {"message": "…"} down to the inner text — so the Shortcuts app receives a plain message instead of raw JSON. It falls back to the original body when nothing matches. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your saved requests stay on your device. There's no account, no analytics, and no server of our own. When you send a request, its data goes only to the endpoint you chose. Built with SwiftUI and App Intents for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

SensorDeck4 screens
Shortcutter HTTP Helper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shortcutter HTTP Helper at none against SensorDeck's 1. Shortcutter HTTP Helper also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. SensorDeck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shortcutter HTTP Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SensorDeck versus Shortcutter HTTP Helper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSensorDeckShortcutter HTTP Helper
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWEI-LUN HUANGFERGUS COONEY

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SensorDeck

One-time1
  • Pro Version Upgrade$4.99
None

Shortcutter HTTP Helper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SensorDeck free?
SensorDeck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shortcutter HTTP Helper free?
Shortcutter HTTP Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SensorDeck or Shortcutter HTTP Helper have ads?
SensorDeck shows ads; Shortcutter HTTP Helper does not.

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