FiberView Pro vs Sorphase

FiberView Pro — Field Tools for Fiber Technicians FiberView Pro is the reference and documentation app built for fiber optic professionals. Four powerful tools in one fast, offline-ready app — color identification, field notes, audit tables, and drawing markups. No subscription. No account required. — FIBER COLOR IDENTIFICATION Instantly look up any fiber by tube and strand number across all major color coding standards. The visual ribbon chart gives you a color-accurate view of your entire cable layout at a glance. Your recent lookups are saved automatically so you can jump straight back to your last cable without starting over. Need something non-standard? Build custom cable configurations and save them for reuse across any job. — SMART NOTEPAD Take rich, formatted notes straight from the field. Bold, italic, underline, bullet lists — your documentation looks professional from the moment you write it. Organize notes into folders and smart folders that update automatically based on content. Start quickly with built-in templates for splice logs, strand notes, and job summaries. When the job is done, export any note as a clean PDF or print it directly from the app — ready for client handoffs and job closeout packages. — AUDIT TABLES Build structured inspection and audit tables without opening a spreadsheet. Create custom columns, enter test readings, and keep every table organized by job. When you're ready, export a polished, print-ready PDF to attach to work orders or send directly to clients. Smart folders surface your most recent audits automatically so your active work is always front and center. — REDLINE DRAWINGS Import any PDF — as-builts, floor plans, fiber diagrams — and mark them up right in the app. Annotate with arrows, shapes, freehand ink, and text labels. Pinch to zoom and pan through multi-page documents with precision. When your markup is complete, export a finished redlined PDF ready for engineering review or client approval. No laptop. No desktop software. No extra steps. — ICLOUD SYNC Your notes, tables, and redlines sync automatically across all your Apple devices via iCloud. Start a note on iPhone in the field and review it on your iPad back at the office — no setup required. — Works fully offline. Your data stays on your device and in your iCloud. Built by technicians, for technicians.

Sorphase 3.0 turns your iPhone and iPad into a field-ready OTDR trace workbench. Open standard SR-4731 (.sor) files, keep them organized by cable, judge every event against published limits, average both directions and hand over a clean PDF report — offline, with no account and no subscription. NEW IN 3.0 - Trace library: import many SOR files at once, or share a .sor file from Files, Mail or AirDrop and choose Sorphase. Byte-for-byte copies are kept on your device and grouped into jobs by cable or project. - Pass/fail thresholds: presets use ANSI/TIA-568.3-D component limits (0.75 dB per mated connector pair, 0.3 dB per splice, cable attenuation and return loss). Add your own stricter project profile. - A–B cursors: tap to place cursors, zoom and nudge by one sample. Read distance, two-point loss, least-squares (LSA) attenuation in dB/km and a 4-point LSA event loss. - Fiber sections: every span between events gets its own least-squares attenuation, plus a length-weighted mean for the link. - Bidirectional averaging: pair A-to-B and B-to-A traces. Events are matched and averaged with (loss A-to-B + loss B-to-A) / 2, so gainers and exaggerated splice losses cancel out. - Macrobend check: overlay up to six traces. When 1310 and 1550 nm (or other wavelength pairs) are loaded, events whose loss rises by more than your threshold at the longer wavelength are flagged. - Cable summary: see pass/fail, length, loss, worst splice and worst reflectance for every fiber in a job. Export it as PDF or CSV. - PDF reports: trace plot, event table with results, fiber sections, link summary, identification and the method used. Share or save from the built-in preview. - Decoded file details: cable and fiber IDs, locations A and B, operator, fiber type, build condition, instrument and software from the file. Event codes are decoded too: reflective or not, found or added, end of fiber, loss technique. - Wider file support: SR-4731 revision 1 and revision 2 layouts. The CRC-16/XMODEM checksum variant written by some instruments is verified as well as the standard CRC-16/CCITT. - Units and corrections: kilometres, metres, feet or miles. Change the group index (IOR) to rescale every distance, and apply a helix factor to convert fiber length into cable length. - Loss budget calculator: length x attenuation + connectors + splices + other, with an optional power budget and margin. Fill it from a trace and compare it with the measured total loss. Also available as a Shortcuts and Siri action. - Sample job: five clearly labelled synthetic traces let you try every tool before you import your own files. STILL AT THE CORE - Stored samples plotted with min/max buckets, so narrow reflections stay visible. CSV export keeps every sample. - File integrity is checked. A file with an unrecognized checksum opens only after you confirm, and stays marked unverified in the app and in reports. - The import diagnostics list every block, the source SHA-256 and the reader notes. WHAT TO KNOW Sorphase reads binary SR-4731 files with one pulse width and one standard data group, up to 16 MB and one million samples. Multi-pulse files, vendor container formats and text exports are not supported. Event loss and reflectance are the instrument's stored values. Sorphase adds standards-based calculations (least-squares fits, bidirectional averages, loss budgets) and shows each formula in the app. It is an interpretation aid: it does not calibrate instruments and does not certify links. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, analytics, advertising or tracking. Traces stay on your device until you export or share them yourself.