Comparison

Usage Device Monitor vs Sci

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

Head to head
About

Usage Device Monitor

Monitor your device's data usage, network speed, memory, and storage with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Get detailed hardware specifications and compare them with other models. Enjoy a simple, intuitive design with no subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Data usage tracking (monthly and daily)
  • Real-time network connection monitoring
  • Memory allocation by category
  • Storage usage
  • Battery graph
  • Device hardware specifications
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Usage is a tool to monitor your device's activity, data usage, connection speed, and more. It comes with 21 Home Screen widgets, fully customizable Super widgets, and new Lock Screen widgets! √ Main features: - Monthly and daily Data usage tracking - Real-time Network Connection monitoring, with Receiving and Sending speed - Precise Memory allocation by four categories - Storage usage - Battery Graph - Detailed specification about the device's hardware - The widgets! Beautiful and fully customizable. √ Extra features: - List of current network interfaces with details and IP addresses - Different appearance colors and app icons - Custom ordering - Compare your device's specification with any other iPhone or iPad model ever made - Old-style iOS 13 widgets (not available with iOS 18). √ No subscriptions! √ Simple, intuitive, and modern design. √ Built with SwiftUI! √ Thousands of users love the app. You might fall in love with it too!

About

Sci

Customize your home screen with unique sci-fi themed widgets. Display various information like clocks, calendars, system stats, and fitness data with extensive styling options. Create multiple widgets in different sizes with personalized layouts, backgrounds, fonts, and colors.

Highlights
  • Customizable sci-fi widget styles
  • Display clocks, calendars, system info
  • Show fitness data (steps, distance)
  • Multiple widget sizes (Large, Medium, Small)
  • Personalize layout, background, fonts, colors
  • Use custom background images
Features
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Add some Sci-Fi to your Home Screen.  This widget making tool is for displaying many types of information with great styling customization. You can display multiple widgets, all with their own unique style and info in Large, Medium, and Small widget sizes You can change the layout, background, fonts and colors, and even use your own images. *Offline contains the pre-made template backgrounds, but the background selection section needs internet to download from online. DISPLAYABLE INFORMATION: • Digital clock • Analog clock (some with second hand to show a little animation) • Calendar • Date/Day • System info (battery, brightness, memory, storage) • Countdown/Days since • Step count - Distance - Floors • Display contacts (just opens this widget app) These are generic sci-fi styles to to keep the coolness of how designers imagined future interfaces past and present on low and high budgets, but actual display real information instead of meaningless gobbledygook. * Please do not ask in reviews or by mail to include any trademarked names, logos, images or other properties. NSTEnterprises respects copyrights and will not include them.

Screenshots

Usage Device Monitor4 screens
Sci4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Usage Device Monitor at Free against Sci's $3.99. Usage Device Monitor also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 46). Sci's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Usage Device Monitor is free to download; Sci costs $3.99 up front. Usage Device Monitor sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Sci asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Usage Device Monitor holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Usage Device Monitor has 3.9K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Usage Device Monitor's written reviews are positive against 56% of Sci's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Usage Device Monitor ships an update every 2 months, Sci every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Usage Device Monitor versus Sci: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUsage Device MonitorSci
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (3.9K ratings) — better4.0 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3.9K — better46
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleh StasulaNSTE, LLC

Customer experience

Usage Device Monitor

All ratings3,852 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews292 reviews
Positive60.3%
Neutral11.6%
Negative28.1%

Sci

All ratings46 ratings
Positive71.7%
Neutral8.7%
Negative19.6%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral13.9%
Negative30.6%

Bugs and requests

Usage Device Monitor

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Spec, Config, and About tabs not working
  • Widgets not updating frequently
  • Widgets not displaying data correctly
  • App crashing when changing color theme

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add real-time connection and network speed widget
  • Improve data usage tracking and reporting
  • Add thermal state monitoring
  • Combine current and previous version into one app
  • Allow setting data limits and alerts

Sci

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Usage Device Monitor

One-time6
  • Compare UnlockFree
  • Kind Tip$0.99
  • Nice Surprise$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Massive Support$3.99
  • Usage Pro$3.99
  • Usage Pro$5.99
None

Sci

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Usage Device Monitor free?
Usage Device Monitor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sci free?
Sci costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Usage Device Monitor or Sci?
Usage Device Monitor is rated higher. Usage Device Monitor averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Sci averages 4.0 from 46 ratings.
Do Usage Device Monitor or Sci have ads?
Neither Usage Device Monitor nor Sci shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Usage Device Monitor or Sci?
Usage Device Monitor ships an update every 2 months, and Sci every 3 months. Most recently, Usage Device Monitor was updated on September 23, 2026 and Sci on September 21, 2026.

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