ICIDO vs Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
ICIDO
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ICIDO turns your iPhone's LiDAR scanner into an indoor map you can navigate β no beacons, no Wi-Fi setup, no internet. Scan a room once and ICIDO remembers its exact shape. Walk back in later and it recognizes where you are and guides you to any spot, even where GPS has no signal. HOW IT WORKS β’ Scan β sweep your iPhone across a room to capture its walls, floor, and furniture in 3D. β’ Find yourself β tap Find Me and ICIDO works out which place you're in and exactly where you're standing. β’ Navigate β pick a saved spot or tap the map, and a route is drawn on the real floor, steering around furniture and through doorways. FEATURES β’ Tag any spot β drop a waypoint ("printer", "exit", "room 204") and route straight to it. β’ Rooms, detected automatically β larger maps split into named rooms at the doorways. β’ Grow your maps β add newly scanned areas to a place, or combine two overlapping maps into one. β’ Buildings β stack scanned floors into a building and ICIDO follows you between them. β’ History β revisit where you've been with trails and heat maps. β’ Share β send a place as a .spacemap file; the other person can open and navigate it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no networking. Your scans never leave your iPhone. REQUIRES LiDAR ICIDO needs the LiDAR sensor, available on iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models (Pro and Pro Max). It will not scan on non-Pro iPhones.
Explorer
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Explorer turns your iPhone into a full sensor logger. Start a session and it records your GPS track together with barometric pressure, compass heading, motion and activity data, step counts, and battery state β in the foreground or with the screen locked. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything is stored on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Data leaves your phone only when you export it β and you choose where it goes. RECORD β’ One-tap session recording with live dashboard: position, speed, altitude, G-force β’ Background tracking that keeps logging while your screen is off β’ Log points of interest with a tap - or hands-free with Siri: "Log a POI in Explorer" β’ Per-sensor controls and sample rates to balance detail against battery EXPLORE β’ Every session drawn on the map in its own color, with POI pins β’ Live compass, motion, and environment views β’ Browse every reading in the Data viewer with filters and charts β’ Preview any session on a map before deleting it EXPORT ANYWHERE β’ Share ZIPs of CSV or JSONL via Files, AirDrop, or Mail β’ Or send data straight to your own server: any HTTP(S) endpoint, POST or PUT, custom headers, Bearer/Basic/API-key auth β credentials kept in the iOS Keychain β’ Filter exports by sensor type, session, and date range β’ Full schema documentation built into the app (Help β Data Reference) Explorer asks for location (including Always, for background recording) and motion permissions. Recording happens after you tap Start Tracking or open the app.
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Verdict
ICIDO and Explorer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | ICIDO | Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fab Lab Connect | James Bolderson |
In-app purchases
ICIDO
No in-app purchases
Explorer
No in-app purchases





