i vs HOTMAC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
i
Transform your smartphone into a powerful magnification tool. Observe and record microscopic details with your phone's camera and a macro lens. Measure objects with a scale bar and add notes to your digital micrographs.
- Professional magnification tool
- Record digital micrographs
- Optical magnification
- Up to 10x digital zoom
- Scale bar for measurement
- Add notes and remarks
- Direct photo sharing
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Use this app to work with smartphone microscopes or any phone macro-lens as an professional magnification tool to observe tiny objects and record digital micrographs with your Phone. Features: Capture of photos with tiny objects as you do with sophisticated optical microscope Optical magnification ratio depending on your smartphone microscope Up to 10x digital magnification in App Scale bar for objects measurement which can be toggled on/off Automatic recording of shooting date and time Allow you to add notes and remarks to your picture Direct sharing of photos with email, message. Attach smartphone microscope to your Phone and convert it into a convenient portable microscope. Capture and save micrographs. Zoom in on photos and tag pictures with comments. Access your photos from your i-Seeing app, email them to your computer and colleagues. More detail at: www.mobile-scope.com
HOTMAC
Connect a digital microscope to your iPhone or iPad via Wi-Fi to view live image streams. This software receives the stream and displays it on your device.
- Wi-Fi microscope connection
- Live image streaming
- Display microscope frames
- iPhone and iPad compatibility
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if you want to use the software 'HOTMAC', the digital microscope must be connected to the Apple's iPhone or iPad by wifi , then the image frame stream will be sent from the microscope, the software 'HOTMAC' can receive the frame stream and show it
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HOTMAC at every 3 months against i's every 14 months. HOTMAC also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). i's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (35 vs 5). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.7 for i against 2.8 for HOTMAC. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i has 35 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of i's written reviews are positive against 0% of HOTMAC's.
i ships an update every 14 months, HOTMAC every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | i | HOTMAC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (35 ratings) | 2.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shanghai Qingying Electronic Technology LLC | 有发 赖 |
Customer experience
i
HOTMAC
In-app purchases
i
No in-app purchases
HOTMAC
No in-app purchases
