Comparison

WaveCrux vs SkillPilot

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

Head to head
About

WaveCrux

Features
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WaveCrux is a modern, high-performance waveform viewer for digital design and verification engineers. Open VCD, FST, GHW, LXT and LXT2 simulation traces directly on your iPhone or iPad — review a regression during a meeting, triage a CI failure from anywhere, or walk through a trace without opening your laptop. GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY Tap "Open Sample Waveform" on the welcome screen to explore a bundled trace with five decoded protocol buses — no files of your own needed. WAVEFORM VIEWING • Native Rust parsing engine — large multi-million-event traces open fast • VCD, FST, GHW, LXT and LXT2 file formats • Smooth pinch-to-zoom and pan, tuned for touch • Full design hierarchy browser with search and filtering • Cursors, markers, and time measurements • Value formats: hex, decimal (signed and unsigned), binary, octal, ASCII, and enum translation • Fixed-point and floating-point buses drawn as analog curves PROTOCOL DECODERS • Serial: UART, SPI, I2C • Buses: AXI4-Lite, APB, AHB-Lite, Wishbone • RISC-V instruction decode • Decoded transactions overlay directly on the waveform ANNOTATE AND SHARE • Add a callout, arrow or shaded band to a signal at a moment in time; it stays anchored as you pan and zoom • Notes record the value the signal had when you wrote them, and flag themselves when a re-run changes it • Share Annotated Waveform sends your notes and the trace they refer to as one small file, openable on desktop or in a browser GTKWAVE FRIENDLY • Import GTKWave .gtkw session files — signal lists, groups, colors, and formats come across • Reads GTKWave translate filter files BUILT FOR MOBILE • Open waveform files straight from Mail, Slack, AirDrop, or the Files app • Layout adapts from iPhone to iPad multi-pane • Sessions preserve your signal selections, formats, cursors, and zoom PRIVACY • No account, no sign-in, no ads • Your waveform files never leave your device • Anonymous usage counts help decide what to build next. You are asked on first launch, the switch is in Settings → Privacy, and the complete list of what is counted is at edacrux.app/telemetry — never file names, signal names, or anything that identifies you Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. WaveCrux is also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux — visit wavecrux.app to learn more.

About

SkillPilot

Features
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SkillPilot is a discovery and monitoring client for open-source AI developer tools: agents, Claude skills, MCP servers, CLIs and repositories. It shows you what exists, what changed, and what needs attention, and it links every entry back to its source on GitHub. Find the right tool Browse a catalog organised into 12 categories, from Development, AI Agents and Automation to Marketing, Design, Security, Data and Research, RAG and Knowledge, LLM Ops and Token and Cost Optimization. Search by name or description, open a category to see its subcategory shelves, and tap any card for the owner, type, description, tags, a short README excerpt quoted from the project, and a direct link to the repository. See what is new The New tab surfaces a Daily Winner, the latest releases and the tools that are rising fastest this week, so you can check the ecosystem in a minute. Keep your stack healthy The Browse tab gives your monitored tools a single health score with tiles for updates, breaking changes and security issues, plus a list of priority alerts. My Skills lists every tool you track with its status, installed and latest version and an authority score out of 100. Open a tool to read its health summary and security posture, what changed between versions, a side by side version comparison and a recommended action. Act on alerts The Alerts inbox groups open alerts by severity (Critical, High, Medium, Low), names the alert type, and links to the evidence on GitHub. Mark an alert resolved or start a migration review from the same screen. Read-only by design SkillPilot never installs, runs or changes anything on your machine. It reads public data about open-source projects and presents it; every decision stays with you. Features - Catalog of open-source AI developer tools in 12 categories with search - Tool cards with owner, type, tags, README excerpt and repository link - Daily Winner, New Releases and Fast Rising shelves - Stack Health score with updates, breaking and security tiles - Monitored tools with status, version pair and authority score - Tool detail with Overview, What Changed, Compare and Impact - Alerts inbox with severity filters and evidence links - Works offline with bundled catalog data, refreshes from skillpilot.biz when online - Free, no account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection - iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later Catalog data comes from public GitHub repositories and package registries. Every entry names its owner and links to the original project. Rights holders can request removal of any entry at yacov@ygl.co.il. SkillPilot is made by YGL. The same catalog and alerts are available on the web at skillpilot.biz.

Screenshots

WaveCrux2 screens
SkillPilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
WaveCrux versus SkillPilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaveCruxSkillPilot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFerrite Engineering LLCYGL LIVING WELL

In-app purchases

None

WaveCrux

No in-app purchases

None

SkillPilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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