Seek Thermal vs MobIR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
MobIR
This app transforms your device into a professional thermal imaging camera. It allows real-time temperature measurement, customizable color palettes, and the ability to capture photos and videos. Analyze thermal data, browse media, and utilize cloud features for enhanced functionality.
- Real-time temperature measurement
- Customizable color palettes
- Photo and video capture
- Parameter setting and analysis
- Picture and video browsing
- Cloud features
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MobIR Air APP has the powerful function of professional thermal imaging camera. It can measure temperature in real time, switch color palette (including custom color palette), customize brightness contrast, take photos, video, parameter setting and analysis object. , picture and video browsing, re-analysis of photos, playback of video, cloud features and multi-language features. You can use this app to record the temperature of every moment in your life!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MobIR at 50% against Seek Thermal's 24%. Seek Thermal's advantage is rating (2.5 vs 2.2) and ratings volume (321 vs 5). 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.
Seek Thermal holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seek Thermal has 321 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 24% of Seek Thermal's written reviews are positive against 50% of MobIR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Seek Thermal ships an update every 3 months, MobIR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seek Thermal | MobIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (321 ratings) — better | 2.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.8% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 321 — better | 5 |
| 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, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seek Thermal, Inc. | Wuhan Guide Infrared Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Seek Thermal
MobIR
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
MobIR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Seek Thermal
No in-app purchases
MobIR
No in-app purchases






