SmartTrack Scanner vs Barcnote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartTrack Scanner
This app helps schools and organizations track and manage their assets efficiently. It uses your phone's camera to scan items, preventing loss and procurement overlap. Get a unified inventory system up and running in a single day.
- Scan assets with your phone's camera
- No special hardware or training required
- Unified inventory management platform
- Prevent misplaced items and procurement overlap
- Quick setup within a single day
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Start scanning assets in less than ten minutes, with no special hardware or training needed. Things go missing all the time. Across the country, schools and organizations are losing millions of dollars each year due to misplaced items and procurement overlap. SmartTrack solves that problem, with no extra hardware or training needed. Using SmartTrack is as simple as taking a picture with your phone. It’s instant. SmartTrack is also the only system on the market that can get your classroom, school, organization, or entire network operating on a unified inventory and asset management platform within a single day.
Barcnote
Manage your assets with a barcode scanner and cloud storage. Easily input and locate your items using their barcodes. This system helps keep track of your belongings efficiently.
- Asset management system
- Barcode reader
- Cloud storage
- Easy asset finding
- Item entry
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Barcnote is an asset management system with barcode reader. You can scan and enter your assets to the cloud and find your assets easily with barcode reader.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SmartTrack Scanner at monthly against Barcnote's every 50 months. SmartTrack Scanner also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 1). Barcnote's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Barcnote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTrack Scanner has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SmartTrack Scanner ships an update monthly, Barcnote every 50 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartTrack Scanner | Barcnote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 50 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SmartTrack, LLC | Can Kinav |
Customer experience
SmartTrack Scanner
Barcnote
In-app purchases
SmartTrack Scanner
No in-app purchases
Barcnote
No in-app purchases
Questions
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