Comparison

RefScale vs Voltary

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

Head to head
About

RefScale

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RefScale measures real-world sizes from a photo. Put a card, your phone or any object of known size next to what you want to measure and take a photo, or use one you already have. Mark the reference, then draw lines for length and rectangles for area, right on the picture. Useful for parcels and shipping boxes, furniture and rugs, clothes for online listings, fabric, prints and everyday objects. Features: • Lines for length; rectangles for width, height and area • Reference presets for bank cards and iPhone models, or your own custom size • Photos taken at an angle: mark the reference by its 4 corners • Name each measurement ("Width", "Chest"), add notes and search your measurements • Take a photo in the app, choose one from your library, or paste an image • mm, cm, inches and feet • Share the annotated photo; Pro adds full-resolution exports without a watermark and a PDF report Pricing: Your first measurement is free. Pro Lifetime is a single purchase for unlimited measurements, with no subscription. Measurements are estimates. The result depends on the photo and on where you place the points: keep the reference next to the object on the same flat surface, and take the photo straight on (or use 4 corners). Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Voltary

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Voltary is the offline electronics bench that lives in your pocket — a fast, private toolkit of calculators, connector pin-outs, reference tables and a schematic sketchpad, built for engineers, students, makers and repair techs. No account, no sign-up, no internet required. Everything works on the bench, in the field, or on a plane. WHY "OFFLINE"? Every feature in Voltary runs entirely on your device. All calculators, pin-out diagrams, reference tables and the sketchpad are built into the app and computed locally — so the app needs no internet connection, no server and no account to do its job. You can use the whole app in Airplane Mode. (The only optional network use is ads; they are never required to use any tool.) FREE — NO PAID FEATURES Voltary is completely free. There are no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and nothing locked behind a paywall — every tool, table and diagram is fully available to everyone. The app is simply supported by ads. CALCULATORS & CONVERTERS (40+) Solve the everyday electronics math in seconds — enter any values and Voltary computes the rest, in clean engineering notation with proper SI prefixes. • Ohm's law, power & dissipation • LED series resistor, voltage divider, Zener • Reactance & resonance, RC/RL/LC filters • 555 timer, LM317 regulator, op-amp gain • Capacitor charge, series/parallel R & C • Inductor design, Y-Δ transform, RTD/PT100 • Battery life, voltage drop, PCB trace width • Resistor & inductor colour-code decoders • SMD code lookup, dB, number-base & unit converters Long-press a result to send a value straight into another tool — no retyping. PIN-OUTS (39 connectors, real diagrams) Stop hunting through datasheets. Voltary ships accurate, colour-coded pin-outs you can tap and zoom: • USB Type-A & Type-C, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA • Ethernet RJ-45 (T568B), SATA, ATX power • Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO, GPIB and many more Pins are grouped by function (power, ground, data, clock) so wiring is obvious at a glance. REFERENCE LIBRARY A built-in shelf of the tables you keep looking up: • SI unit prefixes, E12/E24 standard values • AWG wire size, PCB resistivity • IP ingress-protection codes • Logic-gate truth tables, ASCII table • Blade-fuse colours, battery types • SMD package sizes, 7400-series logic • A searchable schematic-symbol gallery SCHEMATIC SKETCHPAD Capture an idea before it's gone. Drop components, route wires, add labels and text on an infinite grid, then save your sketches or share them as a PNG. BUILT FOR REAL WORK • 100% offline — every tool, table and diagram is on-device • Free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions • Engineering notation with tabular figures (no jittering columns) • Light & dark themes, edge-to-edge modern design • Fast, native, and respectful of your data • Available in 14 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, Russian, Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Italian — including full right-to-left layout PRIVATE BY DESIGN Voltary doesn't ask you to create an account and doesn't need the network to do its job. It's a tool, not a service. Whether you're sizing a current-limiting resistor, wiring a USB-C connector, checking an AWG rating or sketching a quick circuit, Voltary puts the whole bench one tap away. Download Voltary and keep your electronics reference, math and notes in one place — always offline, always ready.

Screenshots

RefScale4 screens
Voltary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Voltary at none against RefScale's 2. Voltary also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). RefScale's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. RefScale sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Voltary asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
RefScale versus Voltary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRefScaleVoltary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZhanarys ToremuratHasanain Alhamedi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

RefScale

One-time2
  • 1 Photo$1.99
  • RefScale Pro Lifetime$9.99
None

Voltary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RefScale free?
RefScale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Voltary free?
Voltary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RefScale or Voltary have ads?
Voltary shows ads; RefScale does not.

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