Comparison

Findings vs eLABJournal

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

Head to head
About

Findings

This app serves as a digital lab notebook for researchers and scientists. It allows for easy tracking of experiments, results, and protocols, with features for timers, timestamps, and data synchronization. Research can be shared and collaborated on, ensuring data ownership and accessibility.

Highlights
  • Experiment tracking and organization
  • Integrated timers and timestamps
  • Protocol management and organization
  • Automatic Dropbox synchronization
  • Data export to PDF
  • Collaboration and sharing features
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Findings is your lab notebook, reinvented. With Findings, you can easily keep track of your experiments and your research: your lab notebook is always with you and always up to date, be it on the field, at the bench, or at a conference. Findings helps you browse your results, reproduce crucial experiments, and assemble and publish your discoveries. Findings for iOS is even more powerful when used in combination with Findings for Mac (separate app available on our web site), and with Apple Watch. EXPERIMENTS. With Findings, all your experiments are in one place, neatly arranged and easy to browse. See what you have planned for today and this week. You can follow your progress, add a picture or a quick note, edit your experiment conditions, and never forget a step. Once finished, your results are safely stored alongside your notes and the protocols you used. All in one place, always saved, always accessible to your future self. TIMERS & TIMESTAMPS. You can attach a countdown timer, a stopwatch or a timestamp to any task in any of your experiments. All your running timers are accessible from the list of experiments and can easily be viewed in context with just one more tap. Thanks to local notifications, Findings will remind you when the time has come, whatever app you're using, wherever you are, online or offline. And of course, Apple Watch works great with timers too! PROTOCOLS. Protocols have a special place in Findings, where you can browse, edit, and organize them. Protocols are the primary building blocks of your experiments. You can add one protocol or multiple protocols to an experiment. Once integrated, a copy of the protocol is made, so you can modify it just for that one use, and leave the original untouched. Protocols can be organized by field, with a number of sufields available for each: biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, engineering, mathematics, cookery. Findings is for all the branches of science. SYNC. All your data can be automatically synced and backed up to Dropbox. Once linked to a Dropbox account, your experiments and protocols are shared with Findings on other iOS devices or on your Mac (separate Findings app for Mac available on our web site). SHARING AND COLLABORATING. Your research should not be in a silo. Findings can easily export any subset or all of your experiments and protocols to PDF, with all the attachments neatly arranged in folders. With our smart export/import features, you can also collaborate directly with Findings, and choose what to share, how to share it and when to share it. YOUR DATA IS YOURS. Unlike most electronic lab notebooks (ELN), your data is not stored on a server and remains under your control. Experiments and protocols are stored in an open-source format (PARStore) and are always with you, even when offline. And you can still get the best of both worlds: with Dropbox sync, you can keep your data in sync on multiple devices, while having an extra backup.

About

eLABJournal

Digitize your research with this electronic lab notebook. Browse your lab notebook, scan sample barcodes, view protocols, and manage equipment bookings. Secure your account with two-step verification and receive important notifications.

Highlights
  • Browse lab notebook
  • Scan sample barcodes
  • View protocols
  • Manage equipment bookings
  • Take notes and pictures
  • Two-step account verification
  • Receive stock and experiment notifications
Features
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eLabNext aims to improve research processes with lab digitization. Our product eLabJournal offers more than just an electronic lab notebook. Whether you’re just starting up, a small or large academic institution, or globally operating company, your R&D lab can benefit from the elevating power of eLabNext. Our mobile app extends the functionality of the web application and offers the following features: • Browsing through your lab notebook • Scanning of 2D barcodes of samples, sample series, equipment to view information • View protocols or procedures and walk through them step by step • Show and make bookings for equipment • Make notes or take pictures and sync them with eLabNext • Two-step verification with push notification to secure your account • Receive notifications when consumables run out of stock or when experiments require signing

Screenshots

Findings4 screens
eLABJournal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: eLABJournal at 5.0 against Findings's 4.4. eLABJournal also leads on monetization model (free vs paid). Findings's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 8) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). 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

eLABJournal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 8 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Findings ships an update monthly, eLABJournal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Findings versus eLABJournal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFindingseLABJournal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (29 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better8
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNucleobytes BVBio-ITech BV

Customer experience

Findings

All ratings30 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative10.3%

eLABJournal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Findings

No in-app purchases

None

eLABJournal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Findings free?
Findings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is eLABJournal free?
eLABJournal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Findings or eLABJournal?
eLABJournal is rated higher. Findings averages 4.4 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while eLABJournal averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Findings or eLABJournal have ads?
Neither Findings nor eLABJournal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Findings or eLABJournal?
Findings ships an update monthly, and eLABJournal every 2 months. Most recently, Findings was updated on October 23, 2026 and eLABJournal on October 6, 2026.

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