Flir One vs volteFace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flir One
This app transforms your smartphone into a thermal imaging device when connected to a compatible camera. It helps identify hidden issues like water damage, electrical faults, and HVAC problems with advanced visual enhancements and measurement tools. Document and share your findings easily.
- Thermal camera view
- Capture photos and videos
- Temperature spot measurements
- Color palette selection
- Add text notes
- Cloud upload and organization
- Inspection guides
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Connect your FLIR ONE® series Thermal Camera for efficient troubleshooting and inspection. Note: This app requires the FLIR ONE series Thermal Camera connected to your smartphone in order to see the thermal camera view, but feel free to explore the app without the device attached. For more information, visit www.flir.com/flirone. Whether you need to inspect electrical panels, find the source of HVAC failures, or discover hidden water damage, the FLIR ONE series offers the features you need to find problems faster and get more work done in less time. With advanced image enhancement features such as FLIR MSX® and FLIR VividIR™, the FLIR ONE series provides best-in-class thermal imagery for smartphones that ensures you can detect problems with precision. The revolutionary rugged and ergonomic camera design combined with the wireless connection of the FLIR ONE Edge series ensures that you can perform efficient troubleshooting with the camera attached to the phone, and have the increased flexibility of detaching the camera to easily inspect targets out of reach, while comfortably viewing your screen. Key FLIR ONE App features: • Scan for faults with the thermal camera view and capture photos and videos to your gallery • Troubleshoot efficiently with automatic tracking of the hottest and coldest spot (Edge Series and Pro Series only) • Choose between a variety of color palettes for best visualization • Analyze faults with temperature spot measurements • Adjust the IR scale to highlight the problem (Edge and Pro Series only) • Switch between Quality Mode for best possible image quality, or Performance Mode for a more responsive camera experience • Add text notes to photos to document your findings • Connecting to FLIR Ignite™ allows you to instantly upload your files to the cloud, so you can access them from any device, organize files into folders, edit images, create reports and share findings with co-workers and clients • FLIR ONE Inspection Guides (paid feature) empowers you to identify issues with confidence, through step-by-step guides packed with helpful tips on how to identify moisture, insulation and air leak issues • Explore the eco-system of a wide range of FLIR ONE compatible apps tailored for specific use cases For additional application ideas and news, or to share your day-to-day discoveries, follow FLIR on social media channels at facebook.com/flir, instagram.com/flir, x.com/flir, and youtube.com/flir. Terms of use: https://www.flir.com/corporate/terms-of-use/
volteFace
Automatically anonymize faces in your photos to protect your privacy from facial recognition systems. It also removes sensitive metadata like GPS location from your images. Select and anonymize multiple photos at once for easy sharing.
- Automatically anonymize faces
- Purge GPS and other metadata
- Select and anonymize groups of photos
- View, touch-up, and share photos
- Resistant to machine facial recognition
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volteFace - Anonymize Photos Automatically anonymize faces in your photos to protect them from machine & optionally human facial recognition. Prefer not to post your photos to social media, and photo sharing sites? A good example is LinkedIn. It’s almost a must, to establish confidence with industry colleagues, along with helping them to recognize who you are. However, unlike your social security number, credit card, or written signature, the way you look physically is something that is extremely difficult to change. Your photograph is a highly unique biometric signature of who you are. We advise that you protect it! While you might intend for your shared photos to be viewed and appreciated by people - your family, friends, & colleagues, increasingly what you post online is being appreciated by more than just people. Governments and the private sector across the globe are actively engaged in collecting & amassing photos, especially publicly available ones from various established sources on the Internet, to build better machine-based facial recognition systems. While many of these systems have honorable causes, unfortunately there are very few effective laws & controls that govern how individuals’ photos are collected, amassed, and protected. This means that your photos can also be used for nefarious purposes, further eroding your privacy. volteFace empowers you to govern whether or not you want your photos to be “appreciated” by machines, while still allowing them to be appreciated by people, as originally intended. As well as automatically anonymizing faces in your photos, volteFace also purges metadata embedded within photos that can disclose your physical GPS location, and other personal details. By automatically identifying & anonymizing key facial "landmarks" in your photos - the ones that machine-based facial recognition depend upon to correlate your photo against other reference photos, volteFace makes them resistant to machine analysis & correlation. Capabilities ————— - Automatically anonymize faces in photos, making them resistant to recognition by machine & optionally human facial recognition - Purge metadata from photos that can disclose your physical GPS location, altitude, camera & other vendor-specific information - Conveniently select & anonymize groups of photos at once - View, touch-up, and share photos after anonymizing Limitations ————— - Currently doesn’t support very large photos > 10k width or height (ex: panoramas) - Does not anonymize other elements of a photo, such as text or signs that are captured in a photograph - Partial or unclear faces in photos may not be anonymized. Use the touch-up feature to finalize photos before sharing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flir One at 4.6 against volteFace's 3.5. Flir One also leads on ratings volume (7.6K vs 10) and review sentiment (21% vs 0%). volteFace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Flir One sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per year. volteFace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flir One holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flir One has 7.6K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Flir One's written reviews are positive against 0% of volteFace's.
Flir One ships an update every 5 weeks, volteFace every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flir One | volteFace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.6K ratings) — better | 3.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.6K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | FLIR Systems Aktiebolag | Entropic, LLC |
Customer experience
Flir One
volteFace
Bugs and requests
Flir One
Reported bugs
7 issues- Constantly disconnecting
- App crashes
- Doesn't work with older devices after updates
- Slow refresh rate and high latency
- App requires full photo library access
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- Freezes and paralyzes phone
- Crashes on startup
Requested features
6 requests- Bring back swiping between thermal and regular images
- Allow locking temperature scale
- Add temperature range display
- Allow setting own emissivity value
- Allow selecting colors on manual temperature scale
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- Improve camera alignment adjustability
volteFace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flir One
- Inspection Guides1 Year trial$29.991 Year
volteFace
No in-app purchases
Questions
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