Userbrain Recorder vs ProtoPie Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Userbrain Recorder
Earn money by providing feedback on digital products and services. Record your user experience, share your opinions, and receive invitations to test for global brands. The app only records during active testing sessions, ensuring your data privacy.
- Earn money for feedback
- Record user experience
- Share opinions
- Test global brands' products
- Easy application process
- Data privacy during testing
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The Userbrain app is a great way to earn money for your feedback. Use digital products and services of global brands, record your experience, share your opinions and earn additional income. HOW DOES IT WORK? Becoming a Userbrain tester is a great way to earn a few extra dollars on the side. The application process is easy and can be completed in 3 simple steps: You create an account on tester.userbrain.com and fill out some basic demographic information. You complete a short practice test (We’ll guide you through it step by step). The Userbrain team will then manually review your video and, if everything looks good, approve your request. You’ll then receive invitations to use products and services of global brands, record your experience and share your opinions. IS MY DATA SAFE? The Userbrain app is ONLY active when participating in a testing session. In case you are not actively participating in a session, the app won't record anything nor collect any data. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us anytime at tester@userbrain.com.
ProtoPie Player
This app allows you to view, test, and experience interactive prototypes created with a companion desktop tool. Access prototypes from the cloud or save them locally for offline use on your mobile devices. It enables easy sharing and testing of designs with colleagues, clients, or users.
- View and test prototypes
- Access cloud prototypes
- Save prototypes locally
- Use native device capabilities
- Control playback speed
- Share prototypes easily
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ProtoPie Player is a free companion app to ProtoPie Studio, a code-free prototyping tool on macOS & Windows. View, experience, and test prototypes on iOS and iPadOS easily. Access prototypes in the Cloud, save prototypes locally, and more—all from your iPhone or iPad. Ideal for yourself, your colleagues, stakeholders, clients, or users. ProtoPie Player is perfect for quickly testing prototypes made with ProtoPie, getting prototypes in anyone’s hands, and (remote) usability testing. To open prototypes on your iPhone or iPad, connect ProtoPie Player to ProtoPie Studio via WiFi or USB. Or just log in with your ProtoPie account to access your prototypes in the cloud. Also, it’s possible to open any prototype on your iPhone or iPad with a shareable link or shared via any other third-party solution—without connecting to ProtoPie Studio. With ProtoPie Player, you can: - Open any prototypes—shared via ProtoPie Cloud, email, Google Drive, Slack, or any other messaging and storage solution. - Use the iPhone and iPad their native capabilities in prototypes, e.g., camera, gyroscope, microphone, and more. - Control the play speed: slow down the prototype to experience the interactions with more detail. - Access prototypes in ProtoPie Cloud. - Save prototypes locally for offline usage ProtoPie Player is part of the ProtoPie ecosystem. ProtoPie is a prototyping tool to easily turn your interaction design ideas into realistic prototypes. Create interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, and IoT. Get started with ProtoPie today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ProtoPie Player at 4.0 against Userbrain Recorder's 1.3. ProtoPie Player also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 21%) and ratings volume (27 vs 3). Userbrain Recorder's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
ProtoPie Player holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ProtoPie Player has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Userbrain Recorder's written reviews are positive against 58% of ProtoPie Player's.
Userbrain Recorder ships an update every 3 weeks, ProtoPie Player every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Userbrain Recorder | ProtoPie Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.5% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Userbrain GmbH | Studio XID |
Customer experience
Userbrain Recorder
ProtoPie Player
In-app purchases
Userbrain Recorder
No in-app purchases
ProtoPie Player
No in-app purchases
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