Q5 Link vs SOCi Go!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Q5 Link
This VoIP SIP softphone connects to a cloud-based phone system designed for businesses. It offers voice, video, chat, and presence features, providing an enterprise-grade solution for managing cloud phone systems with advanced customization options.
- VoIP SIP Softphone
- Voice, Video, Chat & Presence
- Cloud Phone System Management
- Enterprise-grade Features
- Customizable System Options
- Scalable Solution
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Q5 Link is Your VoIP SIP Softphone for the Q5 Performance platform. Q5 Performance is a simple and reliable interface for the management of your cloud phone system. Our cloud-based phone system is a full-featured hosted IP solution that delivers an enterprise-grade phone system to small and medium-sized businesses. Q5 Performance is a scalable solution complete with phones, local and long distance calling plans, upgrades and training. With hundreds of advanced features and a website that lets you customize the system to meet your needs. Try our Q5 Link app today.
SOCi Go!
This app allows multi-location businesses to manage their social media marketing efforts across all digital channels. It provides tools to create and post content, track engagements, monitor reviews, and measure performance on the go.
- Create and post social content
- Track engagements and monitor reviews
- Respond to reviews on the fly
- Push notifications for alerts
- Mobile analytics dashboard
- Turnkey solution for local managers
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SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands. We empower multi-location businesses to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. The Power of the SOCi Platform Anytime, Anywhere With SOCi Go and SOCi’s fully responsive platform, connect with your audience anytime, from any device, and from wherever you work. Drive local adoption and empower your local managers with everything they need to take action in the palm of their hand. • Create and post social content in just a few clicks. • Track engagements, monitor reviews, and respond on the fly. • Never miss an alert with push notifications. • Measure performance with a mobile analytics dashboard. • Minimize local manager uncertainty with an on-the-go, turnkey solution and seamless, scalable processes for social campaigns and review management. Products available on the app include SOCi Listings, Social, Ads & Boost, Reviews, Listening, Bot, and Insights & Reporting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Q5 Link at 100% against SOCi Go!'s 50%. Q5 Link also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.6). SOCi Go!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Q5 Link holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Q5 Link's written reviews are positive against 50% of SOCi Go!'s.
Q5 Link ships an update every 5 months, SOCi Go! every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Q5 Link | SOCi Go! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (72 ratings) — better | 2.6 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Q5 Networks, LLC | SOCi Inc |
Customer experience
Q5 Link
SOCi Go!
In-app purchases
Q5 Link
No in-app purchases
SOCi Go!
No in-app purchases
