Comparison

Lab Assistant vs AirCube Home

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

Head to head
About

Lab Assistant

Features
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Bring clarity and consistency to your darkroom. Lab Assistant helps you build, edit, and run film development processes with confidence so you can focus on the craft, not stuck in a development book. Digitize your process and refine your favorite recipes step by step. Add notes, set precise durations, and define agitation patterns. When you’re ready to develop, Lab Assistant guides you with a clean, focused timer interface that keeps you on track from first pour to final rinse. Whether you're a seasoned printer or developing your first roll, Lab Assistant turns your workflow into repeatable results.

About

AirCube Home

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AirCube Home is the companion app for StuckAtPrototype AirCube air quality monitors. Connect and see what is in the air of every room, live, with a week of history in your pocket. There is no cloud, no account, and no subscription. Your data never leaves your home. All connectivity is local. LIVE AIR QUALITY Every AirCube streams temperature, humidity, and VOC readings to your phone every few seconds. AirCube Pro adds true CO2 and ambient light. A calm home screen shows every room at a glance: Good, Elevated, or Ventilate. A WEEK OF HISTORY, NO SERVER AirCube logs conditions around the clock and keeps about 7 days on board. The app syncs that history in seconds and stores it on your phone, where it keeps accumulating past the 7-day window. Scrub through charts, spot the evening CO2 climb, and compare rooms side by side. ALERTS THAT DO NOT NAG Get a nudge when a room needs ventilating. Alerts fire only when a reading stays above your threshold, repeat at most once an hour, and respect your quiet hours. Thresholds come pre-configured with sensible defaults, and everything is adjustable: levels, timing, frequency, and per-device muting. UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS Tap any reading for a plain-language explanation: what CO2 levels mean, where VOCs come from, what to do about them. The 0-100 air score is always consistent with the verdict on the card. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No trackers. No internet connection at all. Sensor data lives on the cube and on your phone, nowhere else. Export your data as CSV whenever you want it elsewhere. MORE Control the cube's LED ring from the app Fahrenheit or Celsius, dark or light theme Unlimited cubes, all connected at once Try the built-in demo mode without any hardware AirCube Home requires an AirCube or AirCube Pro monitor (or use demo mode to explore). AirCube is designed and built by StuckAtPrototype

Screenshots

Lab Assistant3 screens
AirCube Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AirCube Home at none against Lab Assistant's 1. AirCube Home also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Lab Assistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AirCube Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Lab Assistant versus AirCube Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLab AssistantAirCube Home
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJack KrollDamian Glinojecki

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lab Assistant

One-time1
  • Pro$1.99
None

AirCube Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lab Assistant free?
Lab Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AirCube Home free?
AirCube Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lab Assistant or AirCube Home have ads?
Neither Lab Assistant nor AirCube Home shows ads.

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