POL Guide vs eye
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
POL Guide
This app helps opticians visually demonstrate the distinctions between various lens materials, index types, and coatings to their clients. It serves as a professional tool for optical practices to enhance customer understanding and sales.
- Demonstrate lens material differences
- Explain index types
- Showcase lens coatings
- Professional tool for opticians
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POL Guide is an application created by Pol Optic to help opticians to demonstrate the differences between lens materials, index types and coatings.
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This iPad application assists eye care professionals in taking precise fitting parameters for personalized lenses. It requires a specific kit from Essilor to function, enabling measurements like far PD, height, and vertex distance.
- Measure Far Pd
- Measure Height
- Measure Wrap Angle
- Measure Pantoscopic Angle
- Measure Vertex
- Measure Reading Distance
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The eye-ruler 2 app is a measuring stand-alone solution on iPad. This application is dedicated for Essilor Eye Care Professionals.With a specific kit, to be ordered to Essilor, your iPad tablet allows you to take the following fitting parameters: - Far Pd - Height - Wrap angle - Pantoscopic angle - Vertex - Reading distance IMPORTANT: This application is exclusively dedicated to Eye Care Professional with an expertise in measurement for personalised lenses. eye-ruler 2 needs to be combined with a specific kit and is compatible with iPad 3 or newer. The application can’t work without this kit. The optician is responsible for getting at his own expenses the eye-ruler kit to be ordered to Essilor.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: POL Guide at 5.0 against eye's 2.0. POL Guide also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). eye's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 16 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
POL Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively.
POL Guide ships an update every 16 months, eye every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POL Guide | eye |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 387 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | POL DOO BEOGRAD | Activisu Solutions |
Customer experience
POL Guide
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In-app purchases
POL Guide
No in-app purchases
eye
No in-app purchases
