Vonex Phone vs PlanStudio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vonex Phone
This softphone app facilitates business communication through VoIP and SIP voice/video calls and instant messaging. It enhances productivity by streamlining communication across mobile devices and teams, offering features like high-definition video and push notifications for battery efficiency.
- VoIP and SIP voice and video calls
- Instant messaging
- Team meetings
- Vonex Push Service for battery life
- Secure, SIP-based softphone
- HD Audio and Video Codecs
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Softphone App for VoIP and SIP voice and video calls, instant messaging and more! Stay connected wherever you go. Start or join meetings with high definition, face-to-face video, high quality audio, and instant messaging - with Vonex Push Service for enhanced battery life. Vonex Mobile is a softphone that increases your business productivity by streamlining business communication across mobile devices and teams. Whether you are a small start-up or a global enterprise, take the power of this award-winning softphone with you – at work, at home or anywhere in-between to ensure you stay connected and more productive. Use the new Vonex Mobile app to: • Message or call any person or group within your team for fluid business communication • Join team meetings easily using voice and video calling Technical Features Highlights: • Thoughtfully innovated, with over 10 years of technology development, Vonex Mobile is now available either monthly or on an annual basis, which includes ongoing updates, Vonex Push Service (for enhanced battery life), high definition video calling, G.729 and other Wideband Codecs (previously paid add-ons). • Highly secure, SIP-based softphone with exceptional voice quality • Pre-defined VoIP provider list available when adding new accounts • Multi-tasking support for background operation, such as fielding incoming calls while using other applications • HD Audio Codecs including G.722, Opus and SILK • Video in 720p HD when using H.264 or VP8 on supported devices • Supported accessories include headsets, headphone, as well as other BluetoothTM devices • IPv4 and IPv6 support, including NAT64 IMPORTANT NOTE Vonex Mobile is a standalone softphone subscription and not a VoIP service. A SIP server or subscription with a SIP-based VoIP provider is required to make calls. See www.vonex.com.au for information regarding VoIP plans. IMPORTANT VOIP OVER MOBILE/CELLULAR DATA NOTICE Some mobile network operators may prohibit or restrict the use of VoIP functionality over their network and may also impose additional fees, or other charges in connection with VoIP. You agree to learn and abide by your cellular carrier's network restrictions. Vonex Ltd will not be held liable for any charges, fees or liability imposed by your carrier for use of VoIP over Mobile/Cellular Data. EMERGENCY CALLS Vonex’s mobile products provide handling designed to redirect emergency calls to the Native Cellular Dialler when possible on a best reasonable commercial efforts basis, however this functionality is also dependent on the operating system of the mobile phone which is outside of our control and subject to change at any time. As a result, the official position of Vonex is that Vonex Mobile a product is not intended, designed, or fit for placing, carrying or supporting Emergency Calls. Vonex will not be liable for any costs or damages arising either directly or indirectly from the use of the software for Emergency Calls.
PlanStudio
Easily create spatially accurate evacuation signs and diagrams directly from your tablet. Mark up building plans with pre-configured icons and drafting tools, then publish finished signs with a single press. Compliant with Australian legislation.
- Spatially accurate plans with geotagging
- 100+ pre-configured icons for safety
- Compliant with Australian legislation
- Secure cloud storage
- Multiple sign templates
- Full suite of drafting tools
- Push-button publishing of signs
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Locatrix has developed technology to give certifiers, fire engineers and other competent persons a way to immediately create spatially accurate evacuation signs/diagrams. PlanStudio provides a simple and easy way to mark-up a building or structure and create spatially accurate evacuation signs/diagrams with the press of a button. A mobile app for drafting, editing, viewing and adding mark-ups to CAD drawings directly from your tablet. Onsite engineers can increase their productivity and revenue by connecting their work to cloud storage and directly create evacuation signs and diagrams. Traditional drafting software is complex and difficult to use, a manual mark-up often requiring transferring onto a sign template by a third party. PlanStudio is easy enough for a novice with robust, powerful features that will please any expert. Key features include: • Geotagging for spatially accurate plans • 100+ pre-configured icons for WHS and Emergency Management • Compliant with all relevant Australian legislation and standards • Secure online cloud repository • Multiple sign templates • Full suite of drafting tools compatible with iOS and Windows • All legislative updates for the app • Push button publishing of finished Evacuation • Signs via Locatrix
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vonex Phone at 71% against PlanStudio's 0%. Vonex Phone also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and device support (3 vs 1). PlanStudio's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs subscription) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). 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.
Vonex Phone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Vonex Phone's written reviews are positive against 0% of PlanStudio's.
Vonex Phone ships an update every 3 months, PlanStudio every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vonex Phone | PlanStudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IP VOICE AND DATA PTY LTD | Concept Safety Systems PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Vonex Phone
PlanStudio
In-app purchases
Vonex Phone
No in-app purchases
PlanStudio
No in-app purchases









