Radiacode

It’s a great app, allows you to examine the data in every conceivable way. A few feature requests from an iOS user, would be great to be able to scale the data on the map view, a single hotspot and all of the other data points turn green. If it was plotted along an exponential curve, that might be better. But at least a way to see nuances in a way that’s less binary. Also, would be spectacular to have the clicks be able to play through headphones, and instead of a “click”, have it be a tone who’s frequency is proportional to the energy of the received measurement. That is the say, lower tones for low energy higher tones for high energy. This would allow a user to get a more qualitative understanding of what radiation sources might be nearby.

I’ve been using the Radiacode app on iOS since the beginning of the year. I am genuinely impressed by how far & fast the functionality in the app has come along in that time period. My only gripe: please include altitude when recording tracks! I’ve been doing some experiments correlating altitude/exposure and having to manually join 2 datasets from two apps is very annoying. Again, great app & fantastic execution on the updates! Please keep it up!

This is an absolutely awesome device (5 star plus). This review is for the companion app only, which could use some TLC. The mapping feature seems to crash a lot, and it does not work very long in the background - it will stop recording location data completely after a few minutes and there’s no way to keep screen from locking to avoid going into background mode if you’re not actively used the app. The measurement units cannot be changed in the app and they stay the same regardless of what you’ve set on the device itself. Most of the settings have to be changed on the device rather than in the app. The alarm levels can be changed in the app at the default units. There is minimal integration with iWatch. When the app is running you can see the cps and dose rate but, like the app, it doesn’t change to match the units on the device itself. I would like to see a dedicated iWatch app with integrations for the clock faces. The app is a great start for this device, I just hope they will actively develop and update the app to fix the current issues. A shared background radiation map that all users could contribute radiation levels to would be a nice feature at some point.