Comparison

Impact SmartMonitor v4 vs ETBrandEquity

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Impact SmartMonitor v4

Features
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Impact SmartMonitor iOS app is offered to Impact subscribers. This app allows users to quickly view and manage the news coverage monitored by Impact. It covers news on the client's company, competitors or industry. Similar news stories are grouped together for easier viewing.

About

ETBrandEquity

Stay updated with the latest news, trends, and insights from India's marketing and advertising industries. Access exclusive interviews, campaign showcases, and landmark surveys. Delivered via a daily e-newsletter.

Highlights
  • Marketing and advertising industry news
  • Latest trends and opinions
  • Exclusive interviews and blogs
  • Showcase of advertising campaigns
  • Landmark industry surveys
  • Daily e-newsletter
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ETBrandEquity app is the avatar of Brand Equity, India's premier source of information, news and opinion on the marketing and advertising industries. For over two decades as a weekly print magazine and for six years as an incendiary TV show, Brand Equity has set the agenda for the Indian marketing and marketing communications industry, chronicling the latest trends, the larger than life personalities and the hottest campaigns and agencies. ETBrandEquity will be the single largest, most reliable source for information on the latest in the Indian marketing industry: from market share battles, account movements and pitches, quarterly performances of leading consumer goods companies, and the latest movements of key industry personnel. It hosts some of Brand Equity's landmark surveys including Most Trusted Brands, the youth-oriented Most Exciting Brands and the Ad Agency Reckoner. The site includes a showcase of the latest Indian and the best global advertising campaigns across print, television, digital and mobile, as they happen. It will be a source of exclusive interviews with and blogs from some of the leading thinkers in the local and international marketing communications community. The writers on ETBrandEquity have a combined experience of over half a decade covering every aspect of the marketing and advertising industry. Daily E-newsletter ETBrandEquity also reaches its readers via a daily newsletter that delivers the latest, most reliable information on developments in the marketing and advertising industries delivered right to their inbox. Apart from exclusive content, the newsletter includes a carefully curated assortment of the most relevant stories on trends and happenings in the industry from leading publications across the globe, besides tracking sources of information like blog posts and tweets.

Screenshots

Impact SmartMonitor v44 screens
ETBrandEquity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ETBrandEquity at every 6 weeks against Impact SmartMonitor v4's every 3 months. Impact SmartMonitor v4's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Impact SmartMonitor v4 ships an update every 3 months, ETBrandEquity every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Impact SmartMonitor v4 versus ETBrandEquity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImpact SmartMonitor v4ETBrandEquity
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”50.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImpact Research & Measurement Pvt LtdTimes Internet Limited

In-app purchases

None

Impact SmartMonitor v4

No in-app purchases

None

ETBrandEquity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Impact SmartMonitor v4 free?
Impact SmartMonitor v4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ETBrandEquity free?
ETBrandEquity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Impact SmartMonitor v4 or ETBrandEquity have ads?
Neither Impact SmartMonitor v4 nor ETBrandEquity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Impact SmartMonitor v4 or ETBrandEquity?
Impact SmartMonitor v4 ships an update every 3 months, and ETBrandEquity every 6 weeks. Most recently, Impact SmartMonitor v4 was updated on October 24, 2026 and ETBrandEquity on October 29, 2026.

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