SoapLab vs SatNOGS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SoapLab
This app simplifies handmade soap making with scientific tools and guidance. It offers recipe management, lye calculation, ingredient data, and step-by-step instructions for both beginners and experienced crafters.
- Recipe management
- Lye calculation
- Ingredient database
- Step-by-step guidance
- Recipe sharing via QR code
- Cost analysis
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With love to the family, my wife begins to make handmade soap for healthy. With love to her, I design SoapLab to make the job easier. SoapLab is designed to make the work of handmade soap in a more scientific and more efficiency way. SoapLab would bring more fun for the process of handmade soap. It can help the work of handmade soap in many ways, including: * instructions of fundamentals of handmade soap. * instructions of tools of handmade soap. * recipe management. * easy to share and import recipes via QR Code * lye calculation for NaOH and KOH of various purity, in solid or liquid state, the * concentration and the weight unit you preferred. * property chart of recipes and each oil. * the ratio of saturated fat acid, monounsaturated fat acid, and polyunsaturated fat acid of recipes. * over hundreds of oils and additives are included. Favorite function for collecting favoritie oils and additives. * the effects and colors of additives help the design of recipes. Sorting by colors and adding your own additives are available. * the units of temperature and weight take effect immediately and the conversion happens implicitly. * step by step guidance in according to the recipe. The check list can make the soap as successful as possible for the newbies. * share your recipes to communities with a professional report that is composited of photo, recipe, and property charts. * add cured notification to your calendar * cost analysis and report Hope everybody enjoy the fun of making handmade soap!
SatNOGS
Access a global network of satellite ground stations to communicate with satellites and observe their data. The platform is open to all, with public observation results freely distributed. Resources are available for building your own ground station.
- Global ground station network access
- Remote ground station operation
- Satellite communication
- Public observation data access
- Ground station building resources
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SatNOGS Network is a global management interface to facilitate multiple ground station operations remotely. An observer is able to take advantage of the full network of SatNOGS ground stations around the world. The network is open to anyone. Any observer is able to utilize all available Ground Stations and communicate with Satellites. All observations results are public and all data are distributed freely under the Creative Commons Atribution-Share Alike license. Whether you own satellite ground station equipment or you want to build one you can head to SatNOGS Project site to get up to date documentation and info on how to build a SatNOGS ground station. App functionality is currently limited by SatNOGS API and will be significantly improved in next major release.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SatNOGS at Free against SoapLab's $4.99. SatNOGS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). SoapLab's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 4). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
SatNOGS is free to download; SoapLab costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SatNOGS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively.
SoapLab ships an update every 2 months, SatNOGS every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoapLab | SatNOGS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jien Tsai Chan | Victor Belov |
Customer experience
SoapLab
SatNOGS
In-app purchases
SoapLab
No in-app purchases
SatNOGS
No in-app purchases









