Microsoft Power BI vs Star Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microsoft Power BI
Access and analyze your business data from anywhere. View, filter, and share reports, set alerts for real-time notifications, and gain insights using natural language queries. Securely connect to your data sources for informed decision-making on the go.
- Mobile data access
- Interactive report exploration
- Annotation and sharing
- Real-time data alerts
- Natural language Q&A
- Secure on-premises data access
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Access your data from anywhere. Get notifications, annotate and share, and dive deep into your data with powerful features for decision making on the go. Highlights: • View all your important data in one place • Tap to explore, filter, and focus on what’s most important • Easily annotate and share reports and visualizations • Set data alerts and get real-time notifications • Ask questions in your own words and get meaningful insights into your data with the Q&A virtual analyst • Securely access your on-premises data • Scan barcodes and QR codes to easily track inventory and get real-world data in context • Start exploring your Power BI data instantly, with no setup needed Get the full Power BI suite and never miss a beat with Power BI Desktop, the Power BI web service, and Power BI Mobile! By installing this app, you agree to the terms at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2178902
Star Mobile
This app allows professionals to log and submit time and expenses for client work or internal tasks. It integrates with a practice management system, offering quick access to past entries and remote search capabilities for clients and jobs.
- Record time and expenses
- Submit entries
- Select clients and jobs
- Remote database search
- Integrates with Star Practice Management
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The Star Mobile Time and Expense app enables professional users of the Star Practice Management system to record, review and submit time spent and expenses incurred on client and non-chargeable jobs, using their iPhone or iPad. Users can quickly select clients and jobs from their History of previous time and expense entries or can optionally carry out remote searches on the firm’s Star Practice Management database to find clients and jobs. The Star Mobile Time and Expense app leverages the rich functionality provided by your firm’s Star Practice Management system. Contact your firm’s Star support team for the final step to very easily configure Star Mobile to work with your Star Practice Management business data. Further Star Mobile apps are in development and will be made available over the coming weeks and months.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft Power BI at 4.7 against Star Mobile's 1.0. Microsoft Power BI also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (46% vs 17%). Star Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Microsoft Power BI holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Power BI has 98K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Microsoft Power BI's written reviews are positive against 17% of Star Mobile's.
Microsoft Power BI ships an update fortnightly, Star Mobile every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microsoft Power BI | Star Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (98K ratings) — better | 1.0 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 98K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #173 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | Star Computers Ltd |
Customer experience
Microsoft Power BI
Star Mobile
Bugs and requests
Microsoft Power BI
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent login issues and SSO problems
- Visualizations not rendering correctly
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between reports
- Drill-through functionality not working as expected
- Scaling and layout issues on iPad and larger devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to refresh data and reports remotely
- Enhanced navigation and bookmarking features
- Improved support for touch-based interactions
- Better optimization for smaller mobile screens
- Integration with other Microsoft 365 apps
Star Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microsoft Power BI
No in-app purchases
Star Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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