BaseSpace vs Skedgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BaseSpace
Monitor your sequencing Runs and Analyses from anywhere. Receive push notifications for completion and track the status of your projects with key metrics and charts.
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Push notifications for completion
- Status tracking for Runs and Analyses
- View metrics and SAV charts
- Detailed analysis status
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Easily monitor the progress of your BaseSpace sequencing Runs and Analyses from anywhere. - Get push notifications the moment they are complete - Monitor the status of Runs including metrics & SAV charts - View the detailed status of Analyses
Skedgets
Create visual notes and sketches that can be displayed directly on your device's home screen. Customize your creations with various drawing tools and background options. Share your designs as images or display them in different widget sizes.
- Create visual notes and sketches
- Display on home screen widgets
- Multiple drawing tools
- Customizable background colors/images
- Preview widget sizes (small, medium, large)
- Share as images
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Create Skedgets to draw your ideas, notes and sketches and display them on your home screen. Use different drawing tools, select a background color or background image from your photo library. Preview how your Skedgets will look like in widgets of small, medium and large size. Share Skedgets as images (e.g. to add them to your photo library) and display Skedget names in widgets. Skedgets is free! No in-app purchases and free of ads!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skedgets at 5.0 against BaseSpace's 2.7. BaseSpace's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). 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.
Skedgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BaseSpace has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BaseSpace ships an update every 2 months, Skedgets every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BaseSpace | Skedgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Illumina, Inc. | Thomas Göring |
Customer experience
BaseSpace
Skedgets
In-app purchases
BaseSpace
No in-app purchases
Skedgets
No in-app purchases
