SMI Chat vs s
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
s
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s-Insight mobile App is the perfect tool for operators and superintendents to have on-the-go visibility of key voyage and vessel performance metrics. Key features are: Vessel Specific Alerts Daily alerts on performance and data quality issues that are crucial to the commercial and technical performance of your vessels. Customizable Key Performance Indicators Choose from a variety of KPIs available in your s-Insight, such as Average ME and AE Consumption, Fuel Over/Under Consumption, Average ME Load and more. Sea Passage Progress and Vessel Schedule See each vessel in a list or map display, with regards to scheduled and Estimated Time of Arrival for current and upcoming voyages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SMI Chat at every 3 weeks against s's every 6 weeks. SMI Chat also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SMI Chat ships an update every 3 weeks, s every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SMI Chat | s |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Siliconmotion | StormGeo |
In-app purchases
SMI Chat
No in-app purchases
s
No in-app purchases









