Flir One vs Rinse
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/
Rinse
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Share the photo. Not the place. Photos and videos carry hidden details: where they were taken, which phone and lens took them, and when. Links copied from apps carry codes that record who shared them. Rinse removes all of it before anything leaves your device. HOW IT WORKS Rinse adds Share Without Metadata to your share sheet. Pick up to 20 photos, videos or links in Photos, Safari, Files or any other app, tap Share, then tap Share Without Metadata. Rinse cleans each item, shows you what it removed, and opens the share sheet with the clean copies. WHAT RINSE REMOVES • Location, camera and lens details, and capture dates in photos and videos • Hidden preview images that can show the uncropped original • Tracking codes added to links, using the open ClearURLs rules • Redirect wrappers around links, and (optionally) short links like t.co PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything happens on your device. Nothing is uploaded. • Every cleaned file is checked. If Rinse can't confirm a file is clean, it leaves it out instead of sharing it. • No analytics, ads, accounts or tracking. Data Not Collected. • Your original photos are never changed. QUALITY STAYS JPEG photos and videos are cleaned without re-compressing. HEIC photos are re-saved at full quality. SETTINGS • Paranoid mode re-encodes photos and videos to disturb fragile hidden watermarks • Keep capture date when you want to share when a photo was taken • Most Compatible converts HEIC to JPEG for apps that can't open HEIC • Inspect any photo or video to see every metadata field before and after cleaning PRICING Links and text are always free. Photos and videos: 5 free shares, then unlock Rinse Unlimited once with a one-time in-app purchase. Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rinse at none against Flir One's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Rinse asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Flir One | Rinse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FLIR Systems Aktiebolag | Something Cool LLC |
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
Rinse
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flir One
- Inspection Guides1 Year trial$29.991 Year
Rinse
No in-app purchases








