Printer Discover vs MagFabrics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Printer Discover
Easily discover and gather detailed information about your network printers. This utility app identifies printer models, capabilities like scanning and faxing, and network protocols. It provides comprehensive details on printer status, supported media types, and administrative website access.
- Network printer discovery
- Printer manufacturer and model detection
- AirPrint support detection
- Printer capabilities analysis (scanning, faxing, color)
- Network information (IP, Bonjour services)
- Printer status monitoring
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It is a great time to explore your network printers. Printer Discover helps you to find all information about your network printers from printer description to detailed features. PRINTER BROWSER • Discover the shared printers on your office or home network. The app can discover direct network printers, shared USB printers or re-shared network printers. • Detect AirPrint support. AirPrint is a feature in Apple Inc.'s operating systems starting with OS X Lion and iOS 4.2.1, for printing via a wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), either directly to AirPrint-compatible printers or non-compatible printers by way of a Microsoft Windows or GNU/Linux PC, or an Apple Mac (via sharing or AirPrint activator). • Printer manufacturer and model detection. Commonly supported printer vendors: Astro-Med, Aurora, Brother, Canon, Dell, Develop, Epson, Fuji Xerox, Gestetner, HP, infotec, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, LANIER, Lenovo, Lexmark, NRG, NTT, Oki Data, Olivetti, RICOH, RISO, Samsung, SAVIN, Sharp, Sindoh, TA, Toshiba, Xerox, Zink and more... • Detect administration website for printer (if exists). • Detect current printer working state (idle, printing, stopped). PRINTER NETWORK INFORMATION • Analyze and describe Bonjour service name, type, protocol, port, IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and other properties. Supported Bonjour services: • Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). • Internet Printing Protocol over HTTPS (IPPS). • Internet Printing Protocol over TLS (IPP-TLS). • Line Printer Daemon (LPD). • Page Description Language (PDL). • Show Bonjour printer local name, domain name, MAC address (with vendor information), PING capability. DETECT PRINTER CAPABILITIES • Scanning. • Faxing. • Color or BW support. • Two sided printing output. • Collating output. • Sorting output. • Binding output. • Stapling output. • Fast copies. • Punch holes. • Custom paper size support. • Maximum paper size support (A4, A3, A2). • Supported media types (disc, document, envelope, label, large-format, photo, postcard, receipt, roll). DETECT PRINTER PROPERTIES • Required authentication (none, client certificate, username/password, Kerberos). • Supported TLS version. • Printer priority. • Number of printing queues and queue name. • Supported PDL MIME types. • Transparent characters support. • Binary characters support. • Tagged Binary Communication Protocol (TBCP) support. REACH UI FEATURES • Info menu with feedback and privacy settings • Use the camera icon (upper-right corner) to create and print/send/share a screenshot from the entire page. • Pull down with your finger to refresh the information. • Long press on a cell to copy/print/send/open as/share the cell value. • Shake your device to refresh the information.
MagFabrics
Scan fabric sample barcodes to instantly check real-time availability and discontinuation status. Supports single or bulk scans, with an option to submit data for personalized sample alerts. Available for consumers, galleries, and retailers across the U.S.
- Barcode scanning for fabric availability
- Real-time inventory checks
- Discontinuation status alerts
- Single and bulk scan options
- Manual barcode entry
- Personalized sample alerts
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Download the MagFabrics app designed to scan barcodes from any of our fabric samples. This app allows anyone in the U.S. to check the availability of thousands of MagFabrics fabrics in real time. Find our fabrics in hundreds of galleries across America and make sure you are in the know of all the fabrics that are available for you! For Consumers, Galleries, and Retailers: Use the Single Scan option to scan the barcode of a single fabric sample that you have ordered or from any sample on display in any of our retailers or galleries. If the fabric scans green, then the fabric is still being offered for sale with enough yardage to meet any order demands. If the fabric scans red, the fabric has been discontinued and can no longer be ordered in bulk. Use the manual check option in case a barcode is too damaged to scan. In that case, enter the number under the barcode on the fabric sample into the Manual Check field. Use the Full Scan option to bulk scan all fabric samples you have on hand. The same green/red scan notice is given as the single scan option but with a full scan, you have the option of submitting us the data and we will use that data to alert you of any of our newer samples you may be missing and don't have. We may use this data to proactively mail you physical samples you don't have (samples you did not scan) but we will not share your data with any third party. Before submitting a full scan, we ask for your information so that we can contact you in case you run a full scan and want to receive notices. We won't share this information with any third parties and we only receive this information if you run a full scan and choose to send us the scan data. Under Settings, you can change your contact information in case you want to submit full scan data to us. We won't share this information with any third parties and we only receive this information if you run a full scan and choose to send us the scan data. Data entered in Settings is stored only in the app and never sent to us or saved on our servers unless you choose to submit a full scan session to us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MagFabrics at Free against Printer Discover's $2.99. MagFabrics also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On update cadence, 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
MagFabrics is free to download; Printer Discover costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MagFabrics holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Printer Discover ships an update every 3 months, MagFabrics every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Printer Discover | MagFabrics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Csaba Iranyi | Vitality South LLC |
Customer experience
Printer Discover
MagFabrics
In-app purchases
Printer Discover
No in-app purchases
MagFabrics
No in-app purchases









