SPARKvue App Reviews

This is an excellent app for young and older students. It works not only with the internal iPad sensors, but also with PASCOs Bluetooth devices.

This will be a very useful addition to the PASCO "arsenal" - now, in addition to using their probes with laptops (wires everywhere!) in the classroom, well be able to take the probes out on field work to do environmental measurements... we just need the probe, the bluetooth link, and an iPad. Very convenient! It would be great if the software had a little more flexibility in terms of graphing and output options, but one would assume it will start to catch up to its bigger sibling DataStudio - I hope!

Developers please add the option of allowing users to trigger a single data point by way of the iPad itself. This would allow the user to collect data that is not time dependent...for example pH as a function of volume of acid added during a titration...etc. I made this recommendation 5 months ago...this app is worthless without this ability and I am changing my rating to one star until you fix it....too bad because the intrinsic motivation for students to use their iWare in science class is huge and this is really a simple fix. Come on man!

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Its buggy. And over all doesnt work too well. Not only does my work. NOT save. It just restarts everything Ive ever done with this "app" I saved it. The next day only the folder was there. Nothing else. And you cant even add work TO said folder. Try making it better or just ask someone to make a working one for you

I use Spark Vue to do physical experiments for school projects I developed and its very functional. Easy to use, easy graphs reading, no bugs or big problems found. Recommended for all physics and math teacher.

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If your balls dont touch you should be fine

Overall the app is very well-made and works well. It does get a little slow sometimes (even on an 128GB iPad Pro). The other problem is that it seems to lack the ability to build labs when running on the iPad Pro. I downloaded it at the same time onto both my Pro and Mini, and while I have the build function on the mini, the home screen is totally different on the Pro, and there is no ‘Build’ option and the button to add pages to a lab is missing. I contacted PASCO tech support about this, but never received a reply. So, if you are planning to use the Pro, just be aware that you cannot build your own labs on it with this version.

This will allow for classroom investigations to become mobile and engaging. No power cord hassles...App is very user friendly!

All in all it works great. Using it with the iPhones accelerometer made for a lot of fun on the spot experiments and using the airlink it opened up a lot of new options. I had a bit of an issue with the screen orientation changing on me a lot and some of the graphics didnt line up with different screen orientation (hard to see the needle graph on page two of the accelerometer experiments). I cant wait to experiment more with it!

Been waiting for this since I heard it was coming. Saw a sneak preview at NSTA so I have seen it do the wireless sensor data. The sensor can be across the room and we see live data being graphed. Very cool. Im going to try this for roller coaster data this month. Seems like a great answer. Ive played with acceleration data already, but ready to try the real thing. My only suggestion is that the app could come with a couple of experiments set up already (like they show above in the example) rather than empty. It is easy to setup experiments but opening to a blank screen wasnt obvious to me.

As a student, I find this app very helpful:] this guy that works for the actual company , came to our skool and let us participate and use the equipment. Very knowledgeable n educational. Just a great app to have 

hoe do I write the graphs

App doesnt recognize the probe immediately , need install extra app to read csv file, cant pair up multiple devices

This is potentially a great app, but there is a big problem that isnt Pascos fault - the acceleration data is limited to about 2.3 gs in any given direction (and the resultant will be incorrect as a result also). This is Apples fault - they limit the accelerometer to +/- 2g when it could do +- 8g (but not as smooth). If you want good data collection you are going to have to shell out big bucks for Pascos interface and probeware. Otherwise its not useful in collecting acceleration data above 2g.

The app seems pretty good but here are some suggestions for improvements which I relayed to PASCO a few months ago. Most importantly is that it should be possible to export the data in a form that DataStudio can understand (or update update DataStudio to understand the data in its present form.) Others are: include GPS support to track position and altitude along with acceleration and making use of the accelerometer to track the orientation of the phone. This last information can be useful in interpreting accelerometer readings in a situation where orientation is changing.

We have the iphone 4. We used this app for a physics lab, and it worked soooo well!!! We tested it by walking down the hall, to find our acceleration. It worked really well!!! Better than we expected. Much easier to use than AccelMeter. If we could change anything, it would be the color of the graph line-- too boring!! But we wouldnt recommend anything but this app :) :) :)

I liked how this app worked and found it easy to use. Out of all the apps I have seen this would be the best and most accurate. They could improve a couple of things but overall - nice app.

I have an iPhone 5, and I found this app very confusing at first. There were no directions so I had to figure out how to work the app by myself. Once I figured out how to use the app, however, it was very useful. I loved how you could export the data that you collect. This app works as advertised, but directions would be helpful. I liked this app better than AccelMeter, but only because Sparkvue was less confusing to use.