McWane Pocket Engineer v2 vs SOSRemoteTouch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
McWane Pocket Engineer v2
This comprehensive virtual assistant aids professionals in the waterworks and sewer industries with ductile iron pipe design and comparisons. It offers specialized calculators for pipeline design, performance, and thrust restraint, along with product literature and manufacturing videos.
- Ductile iron pipe design
- Material comparisons
- Product and industry literature
- Manufacturing videos
- Eight specialized calculators
- Pipeline design and performance analysis
- Thrust restraint design
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The McWane Pocket Engineer is a must-have for Contractors, Designers, Inspectors, and Engineers plus Sales & Support personnel alike in the WaterWorks and Sewer industries. An easy-to-use comprehensive virtual assistant covering ductile iron pipe design, manufacture, use, and comparisons to alternate materials. Contains product and industry literature, submittal data, manufacturing videos and contact information, along with eight (8) specialized calculators to perform and compare pipeline designs and performance. Compute flow rates, velocities, head loss, energy savings, hydrotest allowances, minimum radius, tonnages, contained volumes of pipelines, and all-inclusive thrust restraint design with unprecedented intuitive ease. Based upon and developed through more than 20-years of coast-to-coast experience in designing and trouble-shooting water & sewer industry applications of all kinds. More than an APP, it’s truly like having an engineer in your pocket !
SOSRemoteTouch
This app automates field service operations with intelligent scheduling and real-time updates. It is designed to run on various mobile devices, offering a comprehensive solution for managing a mobile workforce.
- Intelligent scheduling
- Mobile dispatch
- Real-time field updates
- Mobile device agnostic
- Automates mobile workforce
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SOSMobile from InsightAtlast is suite of software that provides Utilities with intelligent scheduling, mobile dispatch and real-time updates to and from the field, affordably automating their entire mobile workforce. The application is designed to be mobile device agnostic, so it will run on anything from a smart phone all the way up to ruggedized tablets and PC's. SOSRemoteTouch is the version of our client software that runs on smartphone and other similar devices (like the iPad).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SOSRemoteTouch at 5.0 against McWane Pocket Engineer v2's 3.9. McWane Pocket Engineer v2's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
SOSRemoteTouch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: McWane Pocket Engineer v2 has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
McWane Pocket Engineer v2 ships an update every 3 months, SOSRemoteTouch every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | McWane Pocket Engineer v2 | SOSRemoteTouch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | McWane, LLC | Tim Fischer |
Customer experience
McWane Pocket Engineer v2
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In-app purchases
McWane Pocket Engineer v2
No in-app purchases
SOSRemoteTouch
No in-app purchases
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