Comparison

ICIDO vs Explorer

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

Head to head
About

ICIDO

Features
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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.

About

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.

Screenshots

ICIDO4 screens
Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ICIDO versus Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterICIDOExplorer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFab Lab ConnectJames Bolderson

In-app purchases

None

ICIDO

No in-app purchases

None

Explorer

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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