Comparison

Seek Thermal vs Thermography

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

Head to head
About

Seek Thermal

Transform your smartphone into a professional thermal imaging camera. Detect, inspect, measure, and visualize thermal energy in various environments, day or night. Capture and share thermal photos and videos with ease.

Highlights
  • Turn phone into thermal camera
  • Capture and share thermal photos/videos
  • Take spot temperatures
  • Inspect and diagnose thermal sources
  • Examine objects in any light
  • Multiple viewing modes and palettes
Features
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**Featured as Best Product of the Year by Popular Science and This Old House **Featured Best of the Best New Products by Field & Stream **Featured in more than 500 Global press articles this year Seek Thermal is the best way to experience and visualize thermal energy while on the go, at work, indoors, or in the outdoors. With this free app and a Seek thermal imaging camera, you can quickly and accurately detect, inspect, measure, and visualize thermal energy from your smartphone or tablet. With the official Seek App, you can easily: • Turn your phone into a professional thermal imaging camera • Capture and easily share, store or document thermal photos & videos • Take spot temperatures and thermal images detailing the entire scene • Accurately inspect, diagnose, and assess the source quickly • Safely examine any object in daylight or total darkness, including through obscurants like fog, smoke and light brush • Easily navigate between multiple viewing modes and color palettes – ensuring multiple options to gain the best thermal image Some advanced features are not available to entry-level Compact and CompactXR models like Span & Level and Emissivity.

About

Thermography

Connect directly to your infrared thermal imager to view real-time video, track temperatures, and capture images. Analyze and edit thermal data, generate PDF reports, and share findings easily.

Highlights
  • Real-time video preview
  • Thermal imager control
  • High/low temperature tracking
  • Image and video capture
  • PDF report generation
  • Image analysis and editing
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Thermography is a mobile tool that supports direct connection with the infrared thermal imager wifi to view videos. It has functions such as real-time video preview, controlling the thermal imager, full screen high and low temperature tracking, adding analysis objects, taking photos, recording, generating PDF reports, email, sharing, image editing, video playback, etc. 1. Real time video preview, which can watch the video transmitted from the thermal imager in real time, realize full screen high and low temperature tracking, send control commands to the thermal imager, and add functions such as analysis objects, photography, and video recording; 2. Picture browsing, which can save photos, videos and pictures and videos directly downloaded from the thermal imager. It also supports PDF report generation, email sending, sharing and report printing functions for infrared pictures; 3. Picture editing, which can analyze infrared pictures, add analysis objects, modify picture information, and add notes, including text notes, photo notes, voice notes, and graffiti notes. Thermography是一款支持与红外热像仪wifi直连查看视频的手机端工具,具有实时视频预览、控制热像仪、全屏高低温追踪、添加分析对象、拍照、录像、生成PDF报表、邮件、分享、图片编辑、录像回放等功能。 1.实时视频预览,可实时观看热像仪传输过来的视频,并实现全屏高低温追踪,向热像仪发送控制命令,添加分析对象、拍照、录像等功能; 2.图片浏览,可保存拍照、录像和从热像仪直连下载的图片视频,同时支持对红外图片生成PDF报表、发送邮件、分享和报表打印功能; 3.图片编辑,可对红外图片进行分析,添加分析对象,修改图片信息,添加注释,包括文本注释、拍照注释、语音注释和涂鸦注释。

Screenshots

Seek Thermal4 screens
Thermography4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Seek Thermal at 2.5 against Thermography's 1.0. Seek Thermal also leads on ratings volume (321 vs 4) and review sentiment (24% vs 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Seek Thermal holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seek Thermal has 321 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Seek Thermal's written reviews are positive against 0% of Thermography's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Seek Thermal ships an update every 3 months, Thermography every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Seek Thermal versus Thermography: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeek ThermalThermography
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (321 ratings) — better1.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews23.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings321 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB130 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSeek Thermal, Inc.Wuhan Guide Infrared Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Seek Thermal

All ratings321 ratings
Positive35.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative58.6%
Written reviews387 reviews
Positive23.8%
Neutral8.8%
Negative67.4%

Thermography

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Seek Thermal

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Camera not detected or recognized
  • Thermal image orientation issues
  • Inability to save or access captured images

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to adjust emissivity
  • Improve image processing and overlay features
  • Implement better temperature measurement tools
  • Provide more user-friendly tutorials and documentation

Thermography

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Seek Thermal

No in-app purchases

None

Thermography

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Seek Thermal free?
Seek Thermal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thermography free?
Thermography is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Seek Thermal or Thermography?
Seek Thermal is rated higher. Seek Thermal averages 2.5 out of 5 from 321 ratings, while Thermography averages 1.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Seek Thermal or Thermography have ads?
Neither Seek Thermal nor Thermography shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seek Thermal or Thermography?
Seek Thermal ships an update every 3 months, and Thermography every 2 months. Most recently, Seek Thermal was updated on September 25, 2026 and Thermography on June 20, 2026.

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