Connect IQ™ Store vs smaXtec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Connect IQ™ Store
Discover and download free apps, music streaming services, widgets, data fields, and custom watch faces to enhance your compatible smart devices. Manage all your downloaded content directly within the store.
- Download free apps
- Music streaming integration
- Personalize with widgets
- Custom data fields
- Custom watch faces
- Manage downloads
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Your device with your apps — all in one place. The Connect IQ Store is where you can download free apps, such as Uber and SmartThings, for more functionality. Put music streaming services right on your watch for music on the go. Personalize your devices with widgets, data fields and even custom watch faces. Then, manage all your downloads in the store.
smaXtec
Monitor your dairy herd's health and reproductive status remotely. Receive timely alerts for critical actions like calvings and heats. Manage animal data, track events, and gain insights into individual cow health and performance.
- Real-time cow and herd data access
- Calving and heat tracking
- Health and behavior change alerts
- Task management for actions
- Animal list with health overview
- Offline data synchronization
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Access your cow and herd data on the go with the smaXtec App. Keep track of calvings, heats and changes of animal health and behavior at all times. Receive push notifications whenever you need to take action. Selected features of the smaXtec App: • Check your Tasks to see which animals require your attention and what actions you need to take (e.g. inseminations, calving support, dry-offs, …) • The animal list gives an overview of all your animals and their current health and reproduction state • If you need to keep an eye on selected cows, put them on the Watchlist. This allows you to monitor additional cows according to their needs. Add events such as calvings or pregnancy checks even when there is no Internet connection. Data will be synchronized as soon as your device reconnects. Select multiple cows at once to set the same action, e.g. add all inseminations at once, to save time and effort. Access your cows’ lactations and corresponding events inside the animal profile and add events (estrus, insemination, dry-offs, …) easily. Display cow data also in form of diagrams. Quickly navigate between events and gain deeper insights and understanding. Thanks to practical lists and recommended actions fast and appropriate actions can be taken. This improves animal health, reproduction success rates as well as financial gain. To access your cow and herd data, you also need to use smaXtec hardware. You’ll find more information here: www.smaXtec.com/en
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: smaXtec at 5.0 against Connect IQ™ Store's 4.6. smaXtec also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Connect IQ™ Store's advantage is ratings volume (8.6K vs 2) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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.
smaXtec holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Connect IQ™ Store has 8.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Connect IQ™ Store ships an update every 3 weeks, smaXtec fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Connect IQ™ Store | smaXtec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.6K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.6K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #103 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garmin | smaXtec animal care GmbH |
Customer experience
Connect IQ™ Store
smaXtec
Bugs and requests
Connect IQ™ Store
Reported bugs
5 issues- Bluetooth connectivity issues
- Watch faces not installing properly
- Syncing and download problems
- Crashing and freezing on launch
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
8 requests- Smoother integration with MyFitnessPal
- Ability to save progress pics with weigh-ins
- Filter by device compatibility in app store
- Separate free and paid watch face sections
- Ability to remove unwanted watch faces/apps
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- Habit/goal setting app integration
- Enlarged digital time display option
- Custom watch face hand color display
smaXtec
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Connect IQ™ Store
No in-app purchases
smaXtec
No in-app purchases









