Comparison

TrackOSC vs Pocket AI Lab

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

Head to head
About

TrackOSC

This app transforms your iPhone into a wireless motion-tracking camera. It streams real-time pose, face, text, and animal tracking data over your local network as OSC messages. All processing is done on-device, ensuring your video never leaves your phone.

Highlights
  • Live tracking overlays (body, hand, face, text, animals)
  • Per-detector toggles for performance
  • Front/back camera support with selfie mirror
  • Portrait/landscape orientation lock
  • Automatic OSC receiver discovery (Bonjour)
  • Hide-video mode for stage use
Features
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TrackOSC turns your iPhone into a wireless motion-tracking camera. Point it at a person and it streams live tracking data – body poses in 2D and 3D, hand poses, face landmarks, recognised text, animals, people, barcodes, outlines, the horizon and rectangles – over your local network as OSC (Open Sound Control) messages, ready for TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Processing, openFrameworks, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Unity, or anything else that speaks OSC. All processing happens on-device with Apple's Vision framework. No video ever leaves your phone – only numbers. WHAT IT TRACKS • 2D Body: a 17-joint skeleton in pixels • 3D Body: a 17-joint skeleton in metres – real depth from a single camera, with each joint's pixel position alongside • Hand: 21 joints per hand, up to two hands • Face: the face box, head rotation and jawline contour, and Face Landmarks: the full 76-point constellation – eyes, pupils, brows, nose, lips, jaw • Text: recognised text with its bounding box • Animal: cat and dog boxes, and Animal Pose: full 25-joint cat and dog skeletons • Human: whole-body boxes that keep counting people at distances where pose estimation gives up • Barcode: QR codes and 1D/2D barcodes with position, corners, symbology and payload • Contours: every edge outline in the frame as closed polylines • Horizon: the horizon's angle and a line across the frame • Rectangles: screens, paper, doors – a box plus four corners FEATURES • Live tracking overlays on the camera view, colour-coded per detector • One chip per detector – run just what you need for the best frame rate; 3D Body runs in its own lane so it never slows the others • Front or back camera, with a natural selfie mirror (wire data is never mirrored) • Portrait and landscape, with an orientation lock for phones mounted on tripods and rigs • Automatic discovery of receivers on your network via Bonjour – or type any IP and port • Hide-video mode: tracking overlay only, on black – for stage and installation use • Free, notarised macOS companions – a Receiver with 2D and 3D views, a Recorder that records and replays the stream, a Speaker that reads it aloud, and a Router that turns it into MIDI, Shortcuts, key presses and HTTP – plus open-source receiver examples for Processing, Python, p5.js, TouchDesigner, Max/MSP, Pure Data, openFrameworks and SuperCollider, all from the project page COMPATIBILITY TrackOSC speaks exactly the same OSC wire format as VisionOSC and PoseOSC, so existing receivers and patches work unchanged. The newer detectors arrive as additional messages that older receivers simply ignore. Coordinates are in pixels, origin top-left, with the frame dimensions in every message. PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Camera frames are analysed on the device and discarded; tracking data is sent only to the destination you choose. TrackOSC is open source: https://github.com/JGL/TrackOSC

About

Pocket AI Lab

Features
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Pocket AI Lab scans your device, tells you honestly which models will actually fit, downloads them straight from Hugging Face, and lets you chat with them fully offline. Multi-backend inference - MLX, llama.cpp (GGUF), Core ML, and Apple Intelligence, switchable at runtime Multimodal - text, images and video frames (vision models), speech-to-text (Whisper) Import any model by link - paste a Hugging Face URL, pick a quantization, get a fit verdict before a single byte downloads Honest memory budgets - recommendations are computed from the real per-process memory limits of your device, not marketing RAM numbers Live metrics CPU, RAM and thermal pressure while the model is thinking Streaming chat token-by-token, with full conversation history on every backend

Screenshots

TrackOSC1 screens
Pocket AI Lab3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Pocket AI Lab at #200 against TrackOSC's unranked. TrackOSC's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrackOSC ships an update fortnightly, Pocket AI Lab monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
TrackOSC versus Pocket AI Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackOSCPocket AI Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank—#200 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoel LewisHAOTONG TECHNOLOGY (HK) CO., LIMITED

In-app purchases

None

TrackOSC

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket AI Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrackOSC free?
TrackOSC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket AI Lab free?
Pocket AI Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrackOSC or Pocket AI Lab have ads?
Neither TrackOSC nor Pocket AI Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrackOSC or Pocket AI Lab?
TrackOSC ships an update fortnightly, and Pocket AI Lab monthly. Most recently, TrackOSC was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pocket AI Lab on October 25, 2026.

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