Mouser is a productivity app for design engineers and procurement professionals to access semiconductor data and manage electronic component orders on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
1.8
369 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to bridge the gap between field design work and the Mouser supply chain, allowing for rapid part identification and project management on the go.
For Design engineers and procurement professionals requiring rapid access to electronic component specifications and supply chain availability.
What does it look like?
Key features
In-app tool to scan component barcodes for rapid product identification and stock lookup
Intelligent Bill of Materials management tool for project part lists and procurement
Organizes components into custom lists for offline review and team collaboration
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free-to-use utility for B2B procurement and engineering, monetizing through the sale of electronic components.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentUX improvementsShow more...
The app has seen only one release cycle across platforms in the last 108 days, resulting in a cadence of approximately 0.07 releases per week. This falls into the maintenance tier, as there has been no activity since the January 2026 update. Development appears focused on interface and UX improvements rather than ongoing content or live operations. The current release pattern suggests a low-frequency update cycle.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads upset. Users appreciate product data sheets and technical specifications provide value for component research, but report inability to log into user accounts prevents access to saved projects and order history.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Product data sheets and technical specifications provide value for component research
- Inability to log into user accounts prevents access to saved projects and order history
60 of 110 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Upset overall
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Competitive landscape for Mouser
How's the Productivity market?
Mouser maintains a 1.9-star rating across 369 total ratings, significantly trailing the frictionless catalog experiences offered by industrial competitors like McMaster-Carr.
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Key takeaways for Mouser
Where is it heading?
The industrial procurement market is consolidating around mobile-first catalog experiences that mirror desktop functionality. Mouser remains exposed as long as the mobile app lacks basic account parity, which will continue to drive professional users toward competitors like McMaster-Carr.
- Persistent login failures prevent account synchronization, which drives users back to the desktop site and erodes mobile-first engagement.
- The lack of parametric search filters makes the catalog unusable for large-scale procurement, forcing engineers to abandon the app for competitors.
The SWOT
- FORTE BOM tool digitizes project requirements to lock in procurement teams
- Barcode scanner reduces search friction for field engineers
- Integrate parametric search to match desktop parity
- Enable full account sync to drive mobile-first purchasing
Next best moves
Rebuild account authentication service because login failures are the top complaint → restore access to order history
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's poor rating is a strategic advantage for competitors like McMaster-Carr…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Parametric search filters (available in McMaster-Carr but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined as user feedback highlights critical failures in account synchronization and catalog filtering, shifting the focus from general UX friction to functional blockers.
Bottom line
Mouser provides essential technical data but fails to support the procurement workflow, because the mobile app lacks basic account sync and parametric search, so the PM must prioritize login stability to stop the current churn of returning customers.
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