Comparison

Vicon Control vs AnySense

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Vicon Control2 screens
AnySense3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Vicon Control versus AnySense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVicon ControlAnySense
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB199 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVicon Motion Systems Ltd.GRAIL NYU

In-app purchases

None

Vicon Control

No in-app purchases

None

AnySense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vicon Control free?
Vicon Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AnySense free?
AnySense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vicon Control or AnySense have ads?
Neither Vicon Control nor AnySense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vicon Control or AnySense?
Vicon Control ships an update every 5 months, and AnySense every 2 months. Most recently, Vicon Control was updated on October 8, 2026 and AnySense on September 28, 2026.

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