Flixarr vs Color Vision Plates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flixarr
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Transform your personal media management with Flixarr — the beautiful, native iOS companion for your home media ecosystem. SEAMLESSLY ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION Flixarr brings professional-grade management to your private media servers. Designed specifically for iOS, it provides a modern interface to monitor your library health and organize your personal content without ever needing a desktop browser. POWERFUL FEATURES Unified Library Management • Browse your complete TV and movie collections with rich metadata and beautiful poster art • Monitor library organization and metadata quality • View detailed information, ratings, and descriptions • Track your personal collection statistics Personal Calendar • Stay updated with your personal media schedule in a unified, easy-to-read view • Monitor upcoming releases in your tracked content • Organize your viewing schedule Infrastructure Monitoring • Track server status and health • Monitor background tasks in real-time • Manage your library queue • View processing status and system information Smart Discovery • Explore trending content with TMDB integration • Rich metadata and high-quality poster artwork • Genre-based content organization • Professional media database integration Integrated Playback • Stream directly from your personal media backend • Continue watching from where you left off • Smart progress tracking across devices • Support for local and remote server connections Native iOS Excellence • Modern iOS interface with Dark Mode support • Smooth 120Hz fluid animations • Optimized for iPhone and iPad • Portrait and landscape orientations • Secure iCloud sync for configurations (optional) PERFECT FOR IT professionals, home server administrators, and media enthusiasts who manage their own private media infrastructure. REQUIREMENTS • Personal media server infrastructure (Plex Media Server recommended) • Optional: Advanced media management backends (Sonarr v3+, Radarr v3+) • Local network or secure remote access to your servers • Technical knowledge of server administration PRIVACY & SECURITY All your server credentials stay on your device. Flixarr connects directly to your personal infrastructure - no data passes through third-party services. Your privacy is our priority. NOTE This is a management and monitoring tool for self-hosted media infrastructure. All features require you to own and operate your own servers. The app does not provide, host, or link to any third-party content.
Color Vision Plates
This app provides a 14-plate color vision screening for red-green and blue-yellow deficiencies. It uses established clinical methodologies and aims to classify the type of deficiency, offering plain-English results and a plate-by-plate review. The entire test runs offline with no sign-ups or ads.
- 14-plate colorblind screening
- Red-green and blue-yellow deficiency classification
- Ishihara and HRR-style plates
- Classifier plates for specific deficiency types
- Display calibration check
- Offline and ad-free operation
- Screening history saved on device
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I'm colorblind. Every "color blind test" app I tried was either a marketing funnel, an ad farm, or scientifically wrong. So I built the one I wanted: real methodology, sources cited, nothing to sign up for. Color Vision Plates is a 14-plate screening for red-green and blue-yellow color vision deficiency. It doesn't just say "you're colorblind." It attempts to classify the type: protan (red-weak), deutan (green-weak), or tritan (blue-yellow), using dedicated classifier plates that vanish for one type but not the other. HOW IT WORKS • Ishihara-style number plates and HRR-style shape plates (the two standard clinical methodologies, in use since 1917 and 1954) • Classifier plate colors generated by simulating dichromatic vision with the Brettel-Viénot-Mollon (1997) model and selecting pairs that survive one deficiency and disappear under the other • All plate colors defined in CIELAB with matched luminance, so hue is the only available cue: no brightness leaks to give the figure away • A display calibration check before the test starts, because a dimmed or Night-Shifted screen produces false positives • A control plate that catches display problems and flags the result as inconclusive instead of guessing • Plate order shuffles and dot patterns reroll on every retake, so you can't memorize an answer key WHAT YOU GET • A plain-English result ("Likely Green-Type Color Difference") with the clinical term alongside for your eye doctor • What the result might mean day-to-day: brake lights, status indicators, charts, ripe fruit • A plate-by-plate review of every answer • Screening history saved on your device, so you can retest over time and compare honestly • The methodology and full citations, one tap away, always THE HONEST PART This is a screening, not a medical diagnosis. Phone screens vary; clinical tests use calibrated printed plates under standardized lighting. The app says this everywhere (before the test, on your results, in your history) because a screening tool that oversells itself is worse than none. If your results suggest a color vision difference, see an eye care professional. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No ads. No network calls. The entire test is bundled with the app and runs offline. Your results stay on your device, and you can erase them anytime. THE SCIENCE Ishihara (1917); Hardy, Rand & Rittler (1954); Brettel, Viénot & Mollon (1997); Sharma, Wu & Dalal (2005) for CIEDE2000 color difference; Birch (2012) on prevalence. From the maker of What Color Is This?, the camera color-identifier built for colorblind people. About 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women have a color vision difference. Most found out by accident. This is a better way. Made by Luke Steuber. Published by Bridge City Lab LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Color Vision Plates at 16.0 against Flixarr's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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.
Flixarr ships an update fortnightly, Color Vision Plates weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Flixarr | Color Vision Plates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Winarto Zhao | LanguageCraft |
In-app purchases
Flixarr
No in-app purchases
Color Vision Plates
No in-app purchases








