PROTO Smart Tools vs Workards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PROTO Smart Tools
This app connects to a smart torque wrench to precisely set target torque and record measurements for audits. It supports multiple units and angle measurements, allowing for quick setup and error reduction. Users can create and save complex tightening sequences, track history, and generate reports.
- Set target torque values
- Record torque and angle measurements
- Create and save tightening sequences
- Generate and export audit reports
- Supports multiple torque and angle units
- Wrench calibration tracking
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Faster, Easier, More Precise. With the Proto App, take control of your Smart Torque wrench and set quickly target torque, help reduce errors, and record measurement for audit. Set values, recall favorites, and generate reports. Supports multi units N.m, kg.cm, lbf.ft and lbf.in as well as angle measurement. Quick Torque: - Easily set target torque as absolute values - Removing the need to read mechanical scales - Improve setup speed and reduce errors. Torque Sequence - Allows you to create and save complex sequences, - Single-pass sequences allows you to tighten each bolt to max specs in one go. - Multiple-pass sequences allows you to tighten each bolt in a multi-stage - The wrench will auto advance during the task once you have reached your target, saving time. Torque History - Create, export, and wirelessly share reporting of torque values for audit. - View completed Torque Activities - View Achieved Torque Target: Overtorque, Undertorque, or Within Range - View Achieved Angle: Exceeded or Within Range Wrench Management Tools - Click count towards calibration as determined by standards - Calibration date for the wrench from date of first pair
Workards
This app streamlines HR tasks by offering contactless time tracking, teleworking management, and shift scheduling. It provides an employee portal for personal information and document management, alongside tools for vacation requests and overtime tracking to boost company productivity.
- Contactless time registration
- Teleworking time tracking
- Geolocation-based time recording
- Vacation and leave management
- Employee portal
- Document management
- Shift scheduling
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Schedule registration and shift management, keep the time record in your company, receive notifications and alerts, manage overtime, view graphs and reports to increase productivity. Contactless: Contactless entry and exit registration in work centers, QR code, NFC, beacons, facial recognition. Teleworking: Keeps the time record of the personnel who work remotely. Your company goes far beyond the limits of its work centers, have an overview of what is happening and achieve higher performance. Work with mobility: Using geolocation, Workards allows to keep the time record in real estate, transport, maintenance, inspection companies, among others, where employees carry out working hours outside their work centers. Vacation and leave management has never been so easy, workers request and you approve. See how many resources you have at all times and plan successfully. Employee portal and document management, a unique space for each worker, from which they can manage all their personal information, documents, vacations and other functionalities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PROTO Smart Tools at 50% against Workards's 0%. PROTO Smart Tools also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Workards's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Workards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PROTO Smart Tools has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of PROTO Smart Tools's written reviews are positive against 0% of Workards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PROTO Smart Tools ships an update every 2 months, Workards fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PROTO Smart Tools | Workards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. | Qaroni |
Customer experience
PROTO Smart Tools
Workards
In-app purchases
PROTO Smart Tools
No in-app purchases
Workards
No in-app purchases









