Comparison

Surfie vs Lineal

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

Head to head
About

Surfie

Monitor your child's online activity and safety. Receive alerts for cyberbullying, location changes, and web usage. Set up profiles and manage family settings to stay involved in your child's digital life.

Highlights
  • Cyberbullying status updates
  • Real-time and historical location tracking
  • Web usage and blocked website reports
  • Online time reports
  • Child and family profile creation
Features
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Surfie-Parent is your eyes and ears to your child’s online safety. We keep you in the know and let you know whenever anything needs your attention: if your children are being cyber bullied, if they are online where or when they shouldn't be, their location and more. It is not about prying or spying. It is about being an involved parent! FEATURES: • Updates on Cyberbullying Status (LINE, WhatsApp, Instagram, Viber) • Updates your child’s current Location and today's location history • Reports on Web-usage, allowed and blocked website • Reports on Time spent online • Allows you to set up child and family profiles SUBSCRIPTION FOR SURFIE-PARENT: • We offer a yearly and a monthly subscription with automatic renew after the subscription period expires • Cost for the subscriptions (in the USA): Monthly: $4.99, Yearly 49.99 • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period License Agreement and Privacy declaration: http://onlinechild.puresight.com/src/Languages_Localizer/Gui/Agreement_Page.html?&policyFlag=1&lId=9

About

Lineal

Features
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Lineal turns your iPhone or iPad into a ruler that’s as precise as its display allows. Two markers, one distance, nothing else. It measures anything that fits on your display. Lineal identifies your exact model and the display it’s running on, uses that panel’s physical pixel density, and snaps every tick and both markers to the pixel grid. The distance between the markers is shown with two decimals, in centimeters or inches. MADE FOR MEASURING • Drag a marker, or drag anywhere: the nearest marker follows your finger, so your finger never covers the line. • Drag both markers at once, one finger on each. • Fine-tune with one finger: while dragging, slide sideways to slow the marker to half, a quarter, or a tenth of its speed. • Feel the scale: a light tap on every millimeter or 1/16 inch, a firmer one on every whole centimeter or inch, and a stop at the edge of the screen. • On iPad with Apple Pencil Pro, you feel every tick in the pencil. • On iPad with a keyboard, the arrow keys move a marker by one pixel, Shift-arrow by one tick, and Space switches markers. • Works in portrait and landscape. The markers stay in place when you rotate, fold iPhone Duo, or resize an iPad window. • The screen stays awake while you measure. CALIBRATED FOR YOUR DISPLAY • A built-in table holds the pixel density of every supported iPhone and iPad. • Lineal calculates pixels per point for each axis, so scaled displays and Display Zoom stay exact. • Published pixel densities are rounded, so a small uncertainty remains: about ±0.1% on iPhone, up to ±0.2% on iPad. • On iPhone Duo, both the outer and the inner display are calibrated. The inner display measures when it’s fully unfolded. • On a model Lineal doesn’t know yet, it uses the pixel density of a matching known display; if there is none, it estimates the pixel density and the reading shows ≈. • Lineal measures on the built-in display only, not on an external display. ONE SETTING • Centimeters or inches. Tap the reading to choose. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads, no account, no tracking. Lineal collects no data. • No network access, no camera, no AR, no LiDAR. FOR EVERYONE • VoiceOver: the markers are adjustable and speak the distance. • Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, and Increase Contrast. • Light and dark appearance. • In English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal).

Screenshots

Surfie3 screens
Lineal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lineal at none against Surfie's 6. Surfie's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Surfie sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.90 per month. Lineal asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Surfie versus Lineal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurfieLineal
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPURESIGHT TECHNOLOGIES LTDYan Soisson

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Surfie

Subscriptions6
  • Protect 1 device$6.901 Month
  • Protect 5 devices$10.901 Month
  • Protect 20 devices$13.901 Month
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  • Protect 1 device$59.901 Year
  • Protect 5 devices$99.901 Year
  • Protect 20 devices$124.991 Year
None

Lineal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Surfie free?
Surfie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lineal free?
Lineal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Surfie or Lineal have ads?
Neither Surfie nor Lineal shows ads.

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