Sketchalyze vs MotionGen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sketchalyze
This app allows users to sketch and analyze structural systems directly on their iPad. It provides instant visualization of analysis results like deformations and section forces, performing finite element analysis in the background. Users can define cross-sections, apply loads, and visualize results for linear and nonlinear analyses.
- Sketch structural systems
- Instant analysis results visualization
- Finite element analysis
- Tabulated and user-defined cross sections
- Truss and beam element types
- Linear and nonlinear analysis
- Load-deflection curves
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Sketch and analyze structural systems on the iPad. In Sketchalyze, Analysis results such as deformations and section forces are visualized instantly, a finite element analysis is performed in the background whenever needed. Features: - Tabulated and user defined cross sections - Truss and beam element types - Line and point loads on beam elements - Listing of model and result data - Share models via email and Facebook - Linear and geometrical nonlinear (load or displacement controlled) analysis - Load-deflection curves for nonlinear analysis - Visualization of kinematic modes for unsufficiently constrained systems - Background image for creating models of structures from photographs or drawings
MotionGen
This app synthesizes and simulates planar four-bar linkages, solving motion generation problems for multiple positions. It allows users to design and simulate single degree of freedom linkages for robots and machines, incorporating various pivot and line constraints.
- Synthesizes planar four-bar linkages
- Simulates linkage motion
- Solves N-position motion generation problems
- Incorporates pivot and line constraints
- Designs single degree of freedom linkages
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MotionGen synthesizes and simulates planar four-bar linkages. - It solves the motion generation problem for N-position problems. - Incorporates fixed- and moving-pivot and line constraints for 3 and 4 position problems. - Use MotionGen to design and simulate single degree of freedom linkages for your robot or machine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sketchalyze at 5.0 against MotionGen's 3.4. Sketchalyze also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 50%). MotionGen's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sketchalyze holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Sketchalyze's written reviews are positive against 50% of MotionGen's.
| Parameter | Sketchalyze | MotionGen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 3.4 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Duy Truong | Mechanismic Inc. |
Customer experience
Sketchalyze
MotionGen
In-app purchases
Sketchalyze
No in-app purchases
MotionGen
No in-app purchases
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