Comparison

Button API vs Tersa

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

Head to head
About

Button API

Features
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Button API turns your iPhone or iPad into a physical-like remote control for web services. It is a smart, interactive button for instant HTTP/HTTPS requests, designed specifically for automation, testing, and integrations. The app is built for developers, system administrators, smart home enthusiasts, and QA engineers. It helps you trigger automation scenarios (IoT, Node-RED, Home Assistant), test webhooks, manage server processes, send notifications, or demonstrate API functionality with a single tap. Key Features: Flexible Request Configuration Full control over your requests: support for GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods. Custom headers and request body. Dynamic templates: automatically insert press timestamps or battery level data into the request body. Complete Interface Customization Button builder: adjust text, shape, size, and colors to suit your needs. Custom graphics: set your own images for normal and pressed states. Screen background: choose a solid color, an image, or a live feed from the device's camera. Control & Stability Prevention of accidental triggers: rate limiting and cooldown modes. Security: restrict access to settings with a 6-digit PIN code. Logging & Data Portability Built-in log: keep track of sent requests, server responses, and errors locally. Export data: save history as CSV or TXT files. Quick setup: import and export configurations to quickly replicate your setup across devices. How It Works Setup takes less than a minute: specify your target URL (endpoint), customize the button's appearance, and send your first request. Button API eliminates the need for writing console scripts or using bulky tools when you need a simple solution: one tap, one action, reliable results.

About

Tersa

Features
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Tersa is an electronic design workspace for analog, digital, mixed-signal, and RF circuit simulation on iPhone. Draw a schematic, configure an analysis, inspect measurements, and adjust component values in one focused mobile workflow. SCHEMATIC EDITOR Create circuits using analog and digital components, sources, ports, wires, net labels, and reusable project sheets. The touch-friendly editor is designed for circuit creation and review on a mobile device. SPICE-COMPATIBLE SIMULATION Run analog, digital, and mixed-signal simulations using a SPICE-compatible engine. Explore operating points, sweeps, frequency response, transient behavior, logic states, and interactions between analog and digital parts of a circuit. MEASUREMENTS AND PLOTS Inspect voltages, currents, logic signals, frequency responses, traces, and derived measurements using configurable charts. Add markers and compare signals without leaving the project workspace. RF ANALYSIS Work with S11, S21, S12, and S22 parameters. Inspect return loss, insertion loss, impedance, gain, stability metrics, and Smith chart trajectories for filters, matching networks, resonators, and other RF circuits. COMPONENT TUNING Adjust component values and see how they affect the simulated circuit response. Explore alternatives without repeatedly rebuilding the schematic or switching between separate tools. PROJECTS AND EXAMPLES Organize circuits into projects and start from included examples. Create and edit local projects without an account and continue working when an internet connection is unavailable. BUILT FOR ENGINEERING ON THE GO Tersa is designed for engineers, students, educators, makers, and electronics enthusiasts who want a practical circuit workspace beyond the desktop. Use it for analog filters, digital logic, mixed-signal systems, amplifiers, diode circuits, RC transients, frequency-response studies, RF matching networks, and quick what-if experiments. Simulation results should be independently verified before being used in safety-critical systems or production hardware.

Screenshots

Button API3 screens
Tersa4 screens

Verdict

The call

Button API and Tersa are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Button API versus Tersa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterButton APITersa
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKirill DzubaDenis Kosov

In-app purchases

None

Button API

No in-app purchases

None

Tersa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Button API free?
Button API is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tersa free?
Tersa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Button API or Tersa have ads?
Neither Button API nor Tersa shows ads.

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