SmartTrack Scanner vs Nova
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.
Nova
This AI assistant remembers your personal details and preferences to proactively manage your tasks, schedule, and communications. It integrates with numerous services to handle real-world actions like booking appointments and managing emails.
- Personalized memory recall
- Voice-activated task management
- Automated calendar planning
- Email summarization and drafting
- Action execution (booking, forms)
- Extensive service integrations
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Your AI can finally plan your week. Tell Claude or ChatGPT what needs doing, and Nova places it on your real calendar, around your meetings. Or just type your day into Nova and it plans it for you. PLANNED AROUND YOUR REAL DAY Nova reads your Google Calendar and fits every task into the open time around your meetings. Meetings always win. REPLANS WHEN YOUR DAY CHANGES A meeting moves, a task runs long, something slips. Nova moves things for you and shows exactly what changed. Missed work rolls forward to the next open slot, never dropped. ONE QUIET NOTE AT 7AM Each morning you get one short note with your day already planned. WORKS WITH CLAUDE AND CHATGPT Connect your AI once. Anything it plans for you lands as real blocks on your calendar. DEADLINES HELD Hard deadlines stay fixed. If something can't fit in time, Nova tells you early. Nova is free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SmartTrack Scanner at none against Nova's 2. SmartTrack Scanner also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). Nova's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. Nova sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. SmartTrack Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Nova 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
SmartTrack Scanner ships an update monthly, Nova every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartTrack Scanner | Nova |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmartTrack, LLC | ALTURA Society LLC |
Customer experience
SmartTrack Scanner
Nova
In-app purchases
SmartTrack Scanner
No in-app purchases
Nova
- Nova Pro Monthly7 Days trial$12.001 Month
- Nova Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$100.001 Year
