BoxToPlay vs SMI Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoxToPlay
Manage all your services from your mobile device. Stay updated on server activities, chat with friends, and configure plugins and servers remotely.
- Remote service management
- In-game friend chat
- Plugin management
- Server configuration
- Real-time updates
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Your community does not wait until you are back at your desk. With BoxToPlay, keep your servers close, wherever your day takes you. Getting ready for a gaming night? A player needs a hand? A server needs a restart? Reach your tools, services and Choupy from your phone or tablet. Your servers, right on your home screen Make your widgets your own: choose your server, metrics, charts and colors. Check what matters at a glance and open your dashboard with a tap. Push notifications that keep you connected Receive push notifications on your phone without keeping the app open. Choose the events and thresholds that matter to you: server status, resources or a player joining. Customize your alerts to stay close to your community, even when you are away from your desk. Control without the detour Start, stop or restart supported servers. Open the console, find your players and access your settings and backups. Your familiar tools go wherever you go. Your gaming world goes with you Get ready for your next session, look after your players and shape your servers around your next idea. Find the settings, versions and content available for each of your services. Choupy is here to help Have a question, a setting to understand or need a helping hand? Find the BoxToPlay assistant and your support tools inside the app. One place for your services Game servers, Minecraft, BungeeCord and Velocity proxies, VPS and TeamSpeak: bring your BoxToPlay services together in an interface built to go with you. A BoxToPlay account and an Internet connection are required. Tools, metrics and actions depend on your services and permissions. Widget update frequency depends on your device.
SMI Chat
This communication platform facilitates group and individual messaging, file sharing, and voice/video calls within a secure, encrypted environment. It allows seamless interaction with other apps in its ecosystem and offers features like read receipts and searchable history across devices.
- Group chat rooms
- Message, image, video, file sharing
- 1-on-1 and conference voice/video calls
- End-to-end encryption
- Read receipts
- Matrix.org ecosystem integration
- Searchable chat history
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Built around group chat rooms, SMI Chat can interact with other SMI apps and lets you share messages, images, videos and files among team members. SMI Chat is the center of all communications of the team’s collaborative environment. Features include: • Instantly share messages, images, videos and files of any kind within groups of any size • Voice and video 1-1 and conference calling via WebRTC • End-to-end encryption using Olm (https://matrix.org/git/olm) • See who's reading your messages with read receipts • Communicate with users anywhere in the Matrix.org ecosystem. • Participate in guest-accessible public rooms • Highly scalable - supports hundreds of rooms and thousands of users • Fully synchronized message history across multiple devices and browsers • Finely configurable notification settings, synchronized over all devices • Infinite searchable chat history • Permalinks to messages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SMI Chat at every 3 weeks against BoxToPlay's every 54 months. SMI Chat also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
BoxToPlay ships an update every 54 months, SMI Chat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoxToPlay | SMI Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GeniusWare | Siliconmotion |
Customer experience
BoxToPlay
SMI Chat
In-app purchases
BoxToPlay
No in-app purchases
SMI Chat
No in-app purchases









