Cold chain monitoring.
5 apps · 624 reviews held · 336 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot
The market’s shape
Every complaint, counted
Nothing here cleared the gap bar. This is the full ranking.
- Billing33 · 9.8% · 3 apps
- Performance30 · 8.9% · 5 apps
- Support20 · 6.0% · 2 apps
- UX17 · 5.1% · 3 apps
- Login & auth15 · 4.5% · 4 apps
- Accuracy6 · 1.8% · 1 apps
- Ads2 · 0.6% · 1 apps
- Sync & data1 · 0.3% · 1 apps
The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.
Potential customers
People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.
- Wants it to plug inApple Watch 2 · widgets 24
Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.
Who’s in it
All 5 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.
- La Crosse View561,096 installs · Accuracy 2.2%561,096
- FireBoard®no Android match · UX 20%—
- Elitech iColdno Android match · Login & auth 22.2%—
- TiveTagno Android match · ——
- Smart-Tracker Wireless Monitoringno Android match · ——
Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 1 of 5 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.
What they charge, and what it costs them
Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.
| App | Price | Tiers | Money complaints |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Crosse View$1.99–$29.99 · 6 tiers | $1.99–$29.99 | 0% of 275 |
What each one owns, where each is exposed
Owns. Massive reach (80,653 rating_count); broad sensor ecosystem
Exposed. 73% negative rate; connectivity failures; no sharing between users; 6-tier IAP still earns angry reviews
ThermoWorks
Owns. Trusted hardware brand; 15,939 rating_count; no IAP friction
Exposed. 29% negative; static graphs; no widgets; subscription users still see ads; login breaks on phone switch
Owns. Lowest negative rate (18%); 4,683 rating_count; no IAP
Exposed. UI regressions anger loyal users; login fails on new iOS; fan/temp sync broken
Owns. Low-cost hardware entry point; 83 rating_count
Exposed. 38% negative; account creation broken; no IAP or support path — users feel scammed
TiveTag
Owns. Scan-based cold-chain logging use case
Exposed. 100% negative (24 rating_count); QR scan fails at first launch
The Deep Report on this market
Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.
Read the Deep ReportBrowse the apps behind these counts
Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.
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5 apps compete on this shelf, holding 624 App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.
How many cold chain monitoring app reviews did App Imp count?
624 US App Store reviews across 5 apps, 336 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.
How markets are ranked
We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.
Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.
Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.
If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.
How this is counted
Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.