Revel Inventory vs SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Revel Inventory
Streamline inventory management with this app that syncs with a POS solution. Update quantities, receive purchase orders, and conduct physical counts directly from your iOS device. Easily manage item costs, prices, waste, and spoilage.
- Update inventory quantities
- Receive purchase orders
- Perform physical inventory counts
- Input waste and spoilage
- Update item cost and price
- Scan item barcodes
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Improve your efficiency and simplify your inventory management processes with Revel’s Inventory App. This app works with Revel’s Point of Sale solution to give you the power update inventory quantities, receive purchase orders, and perform physical inventory counts right from your iOS device. Manage Your Inventory Quickly receive items, input waste and spoilage, and update item cost and price right from the app. Sync Existing POs Search by, edit, receive inventory from existing purchase orders. Count Physical Inventory Verify actual quantities on hand by conducting physical inventory counts, using your iOS device to key in or scan item barcodes.
SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile
This app allows you to scan various barcode types directly into any application on your device. Utilize your phone's camera or a dedicated Socket Mobile reader for seamless data capture wherever you can type.
- Scan barcodes into any app
- Use phone camera for scanning
- Support for Socket Mobile readers
- Reads various barcode types
- Data capture anywhere you can type
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Scan barcodes into any app. Anywhere you can type, SM Keyboard can scan. Using your phone's camera or a Socket Mobile reader, SM Keyboard reads a variety of different barcodes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile at 3.0 against Revel Inventory's 2.0. Revel Inventory's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Revel Inventory's written reviews are positive against 0% of SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Revel Inventory ships an update every 4 months, SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Revel Inventory | SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 3.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 340 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revel Systems iPad POS | Socket Mobile Limited |
Customer experience
Revel Inventory
SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile
In-app purchases
Revel Inventory
No in-app purchases
SM Keyboard by Socket Mobile
No in-app purchases
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