Comparison

Tide Q vs MakeYour

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

Head to head
About

Tide Q

Quickly scan 1D and 2D barcodes with high recognition and speed. This tool automatically saves your scan history and offers features like flashlight support and map previews for GPS QR codes. It's designed for intuitive use, allowing you to perform actions like opening websites or adding contacts directly from scanned codes.

Highlights
  • High-quality barcode recognition
  • Fastest barcode scanning speed
  • Instant scanning upon launch
  • Automatic scan history saving
  • Flashlight support
  • Map thumbnail for GPS QR codes
  • Intuitive user interface
Features
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Tide Q Scanner has finally come at last after our TideQ+ QR Code generator! Funny and lovely TideQ bear can help you to scan 1D and 2D barcodes. Especially no POP-UP Ads! This powerful and useful tool app should be installed on every mobile devices! Supported Barcode Formats: (Compatible with all common 1D, 2D barcodes) ‧QR Code, PDF417, UPCE, Code39, Code39Mod43, EAN13, EAN8, Code93, Code128, Aztec Code, Itf14 Code,Data Matrix ,InterLeaved2of5. Tide Q Scanner: It's easy to use! Step 1: Scanning mode will be activated after launch the App Step 2: Barcodes are recognizable under camera shot automatically Step 3: App returns the result after the barcodes can be recognized. TideQ Scanner Features: ‧Quality Scanning: High Recognition. ‧Speed: Fastest Barcode Scanning. ‧Instant: Scanner will be active after launch app. ‧Automatically Save: History of scanned barcodes. ‧Flashlight: Allow your device to switch flashlight. ‧Map Thumbnail: Drop a pin in map preview after scan GPS QR code. ‧Intuitive User Interface: The easiest way to scan barcodes. ‧Barcodes Types Toggle: Allow user to decide which barcodes can be recognized. After scanning QR Codes that you can do…: ‧Make a phone call. ‧Send text messages. ‧Open websites. ‧Add contact. ‧Navigation. ‧Send email. ‧Add Skype user. ‧Search strings/texts in Google. ‧Add events to calendar. TideQ bear looks forward to seeing you! Let’s see you in TideQ Scanner App! QR Code is a registered trademark of Denso Wave Incorporated.

About

MakeYour

Features
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Stop downloading another tiny app. Make yours. MakeYour turns a sentence into a native tiny app inside one trusted iPhone app. Build trackers, checklists, calculators, reminder workflows, photo journals, live-data dashboards, ledgers, or games—then keep and switch among them. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD • Personal record collections with notes, numbers, dates, totals, completion, and reminders • Task lists and local notification workflows • Calculators and currency-conversion tools • Credited BBC/NPR news collections with local search, topics, and bookmarks • Stock and ETF watchlists with latest/delayed Twelve Data quotes and charts • Income and expense ledgers with balances, budgets, and category totals • Complete original platform and Snake games with touch controls and scoring • Photo-first private journals and trackers using selected or captured images • Latest daily FX watchlists with a chosen base currency, editable currencies, and threshold alerts • Tap-initiated camera, QR/barcode/text scanning, one-time location, contact and text-file selection, today's steps, sharing, clipboard write, and haptic feedback • Local voice notes with optional on-device-only transcription, editable review, and no network-recognition fallback • Explicitly opted-in tiny apps that open from Apple Shortcuts or Siri through one authenticated foreground action • Focused AI helpers that receive only text you explicitly review and send YOUR STYLE, NOT ONE TEMPLATE Generated apps can use different native themes, typography, backgrounds, layouts, spacing, surfaces, imagery, symbols, and colors while remaining accessible and familiar. BRING YOUR OWN OPENAI KEY Your API key is stored in iOS Keychain for this device only. AI requests travel directly from your iPhone to OpenAI. MakeYour does not operate an account or proxy server and never puts your key in a project file or prompt. Market Pocket includes AAPL demo access. Other symbols can use an optional Twelve Data key stored in the device-only Keychain. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Projects, records, bookmarks, watchlists, ledgers, voice notes, accepted transcripts, and selected or captured results stay on your iPhone. Device access starts only after you tap, scanned URLs are not opened automatically, and there is no background audio, speech, location, or motion monitoring. Speech transcription requires an available on-device language model and never falls back to network recognition. Sharing leaves MakeYour only after you choose a destination in Apple's share sheet. Before an in-app AI request, MakeYour shows the exact task and text that will be sent. An accepted transcript may become editable text, but its audio is never attached. Photos, records, other apps, and device data are not attached automatically. When generated versions include the visible Shortcuts access block, Apple's dynamic picker receives only opted-in tiny apps' stable IDs, display names, and validated icons. The fixed action requires local device authentication and opens MakeYour in the foreground. It receives no prompt, state, photos, voice notes, provider keys, or generated automation code. Removing the block or deleting a tiny app revokes that app's listing. SAFE NATIVE RUNTIME AI does not download or execute Swift, JavaScript, plug-ins, or arbitrary code. It creates a validated declarative app document. MakeYour renders that document using precompiled native SwiftUI components and a fixed capability allowlist. Network components use only fixed, precompiled providers: Frankfurter for latest daily FX reference rates, BBC/NPR for credited RSS feeds, Twelve Data for latest/delayed market data, and OpenAI for user-authorized AI. Market and currency values are not guaranteed real-time and are not financial advice. Camera capture, live scanning, pedometer data, and meaningful haptic feedback require supported physical iPhone hardware. Unsupported devices and Simulator show an honest unavailable state.

Screenshots

Tide Q4 screens
MakeYour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MakeYour at every 2 weeks against Tide Q's every 5 weeks. Tide Q's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). 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

Tide Q ships an update every 5 weeks, MakeYour every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tide Q versus MakeYour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTide QMakeYour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperInGee Information Co., Ltd.Wang LongWei

In-app purchases

None

Tide Q

No in-app purchases

None

MakeYour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tide Q free?
Tide Q is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MakeYour free?
MakeYour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tide Q or MakeYour have ads?
Neither Tide Q nor MakeYour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tide Q or MakeYour?
Tide Q ships an update every 5 weeks, and MakeYour every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tide Q was updated on September 30, 2026 and MakeYour on September 24, 2026.

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