Stud Finder® Reviews

Using the magnetic sensors is smart, but to be even more useful I would display arrows pointing the direction the signal is stronger.

This would help avoid going back and forth, or up and down to find the center.

It would also be beneficial to overlay a bullseye specific to the device showing the location of the mail center. I end up tapping around to find the stud after the signal beep. Mainly because the iPhone 12 Pro Max is so large, I am not sure if the stud is more at the center, top or bottom of the device.

I wasn’t able to willing to properly evaluate it due to the aggressive upgrade prompts. I didn’t even have time to put it near a wall before it started asking me to upgrade to Pro. Dismissed the box after the requisite 10 second timer, put it up to a wall, and found that the sensitivity was too high. I adjusted it. Upgrade prompt. Put it up to a wall, not quite sensitive enough. Upgrade prompt. Closed and uninstalled!

I would strongly suggest that the developer consider a different approach, such as letting the user use StudFinder freely for a few minutes before starting to pop up nag screens. As of this writing the evaluation model is actively user hostile and doesn’t allow the user to get a feel for StudFinder prior to purchasing it. It’s only $2, sure, but there are plenty of other options, and first impressions go a long way.

The developer must have a lot of family and friends writing reviews. It will find metal if I have an item on my desk I move over. Trying the wall, you only have 10 seconds to slowly move across seeking a nail. Then StudFinder stops for 10 seconds, encouraging you to upgrade to paid version. After 10 seconds you start trying to find a nail again (can be a slow process), only to have StudFinder stop you again to wait another 10 seconds (just to force you to upgrade).
StudFinder might work if you upgrade to paid version, but I never found a nail on free app version. All I found was incredible frustration.

Needed to hang a 55inch wall mount but was really not inclined to start drilling holes to find the studs. Tried tapping wall and other tricks to no avail. Was about to go to hardware store when I wondered if there was an app. Found StudFinder and it actually worked. It will work fine in free mode but StudFinder only works for a few seconds, then resets after a few seconds. I paid for the upgrade. Hey, only 2bucks. Worth it. Did have to remove protective case; no big deal.

I was selling a bit of my property to my neighbor and needed to find 1 inch steel survey pipes that were buried in the ground at certain points. Nearly 30 years ago. The stud finder app worked just great! You did have to hold the phone on its side toward one corner, and you had to be within about a foot of the pipe in any direction. Basically get close enough via rough survey measurements that you could go on your hands and knees and find the beeping sound of the pipe. Worked fantastic, very pleased.

I thought there was gonna be no way in hell this is gonna work but it was my only hope after putting multiple holes in the dam wall. Downloaded it and put it up to my tv wall mount and it spiked up. Brought it up to my wall and moved it over to where my holes were and it was going off in between 2 holes I put in the wall and what do you know....... there she was bud! Anyways yeah 10/10 would 100% recommend

Ok, I honestly didn’t m ow if I could trust an app on a phone to be a stud finder, but it was free so I gave it a try. Sure enough, it said it found a stud (had to sit through a few upgrade or wait prompts, it it was free) and when I went to put the nail in, it sure enough was a stud! I’m now buying StudFinder because $2 for an app on my phone or $20 for a separate piece of hardware that I have to remember where I put... easy choice.

This is one of the worst apps I’ve ever seen. Completely unusable. Every few seconds a pop up window with a 10 second countdown timer blocks you from using StudFinder . The pop up has two buttons - upgrade or continue - but you can’t hit continue until the countdown reaches zero, so you just have to stand and stare at the screen while the numbers count down. It’s one of the stupidest and worst designed apps in existence. On top of all the dysfunction, StudFinder asks you to rate it as soon as you open it the first time. Well, here’s my rating: this is garbage. I deleted it within 45 seconds of downloading it.

It worked! The timeout is annoying, but I understand the need to force a purchase.
However, it served my needs perfectly.

I am a real apple user I all apple products I’m 22 lol and wanted to see if there was app for stud finding because I’m trying to put up tv mount for my Airbnb and I’m not the best handyman I usually just work on computers. StudFinder REALLY DOES WORK! All the “fake” reviews just don’t read the easy instructions or know how stud finders work. Simply move across the wall slowly and it’ll find the nail. EASY! Hope this review helped 🙏🏿

Needed a one time use (metal) stud finder for one project. Tried StudFinder. You get a limited amount of active time before StudFinder stops working and you then must wait for a while before trying again. For my purposes this makes this application worthless. Since the working time is so short, I am not interested in taking the time to see if this application is worth upgrading. Given the performance observed thus far I’m rating it as useless and deleting it.

It is possible that the upgraded version is wonderful, but what I can determine from the initial download suggests it’s not.

So after reading reviews cause I didn’t want to go to Home Depot to buy a stud finder for a one time use in the next 5 years. StudFinder is super off. I marked where multiple studs it showed were located. Drilled with small pilot holes to test it. What do you know it’s off! Lol

The studs are about 6-7 inches away from where this “stud finder” goes to 120 showing metal is there. I did this in multiple spots to give this a fair review.

The only reason I did this was because every 8 or so seconds, it stops you from finding the studs and prompts you to wait 8-10 seconds to try again for another 10ish seconds before prompting to upgrade again. Granite it is only 2$ but what’s the point of paying 2$ to an app that is clearly wrong?

Save your money, drill your pilot holes with tiny drill bits where you think the stud could be, get dry wall patch repair kit, and just use the speckel to cover the hole and paint and boom never even existed.

It’s actually works BUT it only detects metal objects so it could be a stud or ANYTHING you don’t really know. I gave it 2 stars because the time limit is SO SHORT! you don’t even get enough time to actually find anything. They give you a time limit of what seems like literally 3 seconds then you have to wait an extra 20 seconds to be able to go again for 3 seconds lol and if your wondering how your phone detects metal, if you have ever used a charging pad to charge your phone it uses the same mechanism.

I barely opened StudFinder , it started bugging me to upgrade, with a window you can't close for several seconds. The nagging window popped up again and again every 10 seconds or so. I couldn't even use StudFinder to find anything due to the constant nagging.

Advice to the developper, let the find one or two objects before nagging them again. I gave up not being willing to put up with the constant nagging. There are other apps out there that are better written, and dont nag as much.

Don’t know if it works bc free is only free for 30 seconds, then you have to wait 10 seconds, then you have 10 seconds, etc. There isn’t even enough time to find the first stud much less get to the next. So either you already know how to use stud finders or not, do not attempt to learn with this free version, you literally can’t. Why even bother offering a free version? Just make ppl pay like other apps. I for one will be trying another app

Used to be a great app but now the developers added a feature where you can use it for 10 seconds then you would have to wait 10 seconds before you can use it again. This really isn’t helpful and it starts the 10 seconds soon as you open StudFinder so while your trying to calibrate it and figure things out you have to wait 10 seconds to see if it’s properly done. I’ll just use my physical stud finder just wanted this one as a secondary confirmation.

So I would say StudFinder works but I really couldn’t say for sure since literally every **15 seconds** (honestly) StudFinder has a pop up asking to upgrade to pro and won’t allow you to tap continue until a certain amount of time goes by and then you can choose to continue. So if it takes more than 15 seconds to get to the next stud then you’ll get that annoying pop up and won’t be able to use StudFinder until 10 seconds goes by.

So... failed in this old house... first checked it with a free nail I had to find the spot on the phone that actually detected the metallic location and then proceeded to can my wall marking nails I went. Then started drilling into what I thought were studs based on nail marks... missed every time. Knocking with knuckle found all the studs with out a miss—-sticking with old school. So... not really a stud finder.

The upgrade pops up and stays up longer than you get to actually try and use it. Just downloaded it, opened StudFinder and it’s already asking for a star rating! Every app from this developer does it! In the few seconds I did try using it on known wooden stud locations- it doesn’t work! It would go crazy when I found the edge because of the metal edging strip but, that was it. Get yourself a real stud finder from the store.

I wasn’t sure if StudFinder would work for my needs and it times out before I can even figure out if I should purchase it. I’d be happy to purchase this if I felt confident it would work. Most likely, you will also “timeout” quickly before you can see if it fits your needs. I have a limited space to check and the orientation didn’t flip. It seemed to find wires but not the stud that I had thumped out prior to trying this.

It does detect various metal as it says goes off the chart if u put metal beside your phone even I have found coins and dropped coils for my vape even however I wouldn’t say it’s a metal detector it’s jus not sensitive enough to be

Save your money. Unless you happen to find a nail head this will not find a stud,

I fell for the fake positive review. I’m going to get a mental psychological check now.

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