Vicon Control vs AnySense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vicon Control
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Free yourself from the capture PC. Vicon Control is our first tablet and phone application designed to make setting up your Vantage, Vero, Vertex, Viper, T-Series and Bonita system easier than ever. Control connects wirelessly to Vicon’s Evoke, Nexus, and Shōgun software. It streams camera data wirelessly to your mobile or tablet device, allowing a single operator to make adjustments on the fly. Compatible Vicon platforms include: - Nexus 2.7 and later - Tracker 3.6 and later - Shogun 1.1 and later - Evoke 1.0 and later
AnySense
This app allows users to collect multi-sensory data from their iPhone and external sensors. It supports offline data collection and online streaming to robots, as well as on-device policy evaluation with AR visualization.
- Multi-sensor data collection
- Bluetooth and wired sensor integration
- Offline data recording
- Online streaming to robots
- On-device CoreML policy evaluation
- AR visualization of predicted actions
- RGB and depth video recording
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AnySense is an open-source iPhone app that enables multi-sensory data collection by integrating the iPhone's sensory suite with external sensors via Bluetooth and wired interfaces, enabling both offline data collection and online streaming to robots. The app also supports on-device policy evaluation: you can load a trained CoreML policy, set a 3D goal in AR, and run the policy with AR visualization of predicted actions without a robot. We record RGB and depth videos, metric depth frames, streamed Bluetooth data (e.g. from tactile sensors) into a binary file, and timestamped pose data as a `.txt` file. Example streaming code for Bluetooth data can be found on AnySkin. USB streaming is supported by connecting the iPhone to your computer and using the library - https://github.com/NYU-robot-learning/anysense-streaming.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AnySense at every 2 months against Vicon Control's every 5 months. Vicon Control's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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.
Vicon Control ships an update every 5 months, AnySense every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vicon Control | AnySense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vicon Motion Systems Ltd. | GRAIL NYU |
In-app purchases
Vicon Control
No in-app purchases
AnySense
No in-app purchases









