smrtPhone vs Forefront CRM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
smrtPhone
This mobile app integrates your cloud-based phone system with your CRM, enabling seamless calling, texting, and contact management from your device. It logs all communication, allows for call notes, and offers advanced sales features to accelerate your sales cycle and enhance customer relationships.
- CRM contact list sync
- SMS/MMS messaging with CRM logging
- Call logging and recording
- In-call notes sync
- Call disposition tracking
- Multiple Caller ID options
- Text and voicemail inbox access
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smrtPhone is a full featured, cloud based phone system that allows you to make more calls, send more texts, and close more deals. With smrtPhone, your phone system becomes a fully integrated part of your CRM, accelerating your sales cycle, and improving customer relationships. With no forced long-term contracts, a powerful 4-line auto-dialer, advanced Pro features, and pay-as-you-go pricing, smrtPhone is the clear choice for sales-driven businesses. Now you can bring power of smrtPhone to your mobile device. Use the smrtPhone Mobile App to: > Sync your full CRM contact lists so every contact is available from your handheld device > Send text messages (SMS and MMS) to any contact and have it automatically log in your CRM > Make and receive calls and have call data effortlessly tracked, including call recordings > Take notes during/after your call and have them automatically sync to the contact record > Choose from existing call dispositions to mark call outcomes and trigger CRM automations > Easily switch between phone number Caller IDs to ensure you call from the correct phone line > Access your text and voicemail inboxes for individual users and groups > Sync call information (including recent call logs) across platforms, web and mobile IMPORTANT: smrtPhone’s mobile app requires an existing smrtPhone account. DISCLAIMERS: Call quality can be affected by the strength of your internet/4G/5G/LTE connection. Please ensure you have a strong signal or internet connection to achieve best results. Emergency calling may not be available for your number or region.
Forefront CRM
Manage real estate investment leads and deals with a visual, mobile-first approach. Access and update all lead and property information, track tasks, and view appointments on the go. Syncs in real-time with your desktop account for seamless team collaboration.
- Visual lead and deal management
- Real-time data synchronization
- Search leads by address, phone, or name
- View and update property details
- Direct calling and texting via CallRail
- Task and appointment management
- Team member mentions and communication logs
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Forefront CRM on your iPhone. Keep all your hottest leads at the forefront even while you are on the go. Forefront CRM is a completely different, VISUAL approach to managing your lead and deal CRM for real estate investors. Working in your CRM on a clunky mobile web browser just sucks. Finally, scrolling issues, editing issues, saving issues are a thing of the past. When sellers reach out to you while you’re out and about, do you have easy access to all of your lead information? Don’t make sellers or your team wait. Take it all with you! Syncs in real-time with your Forefront CRM account. You and your team are always looking at the most recent lead information. With the Forefront CRM iOS app, you can: * Search all of your leads by partial address, phone number, seller name, seller email to quickly pull up your lead info while on the go * View and update all of your property information, lead information, deal analysis, notes, offers, seller information...everything from within the app * Send texts and make calls directly to sellers through CallRail within the app * Add notes and mention team members * View and work on your tasks in your Up Next task list * View upcoming appointments * View communication logs to see all of the inbound and outbound communication made by you and your team each day
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Forefront CRM at 100% against smrtPhone's 25%. Forefront CRM also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). smrtPhone's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 3). 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.
smrtPhone holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: smrtPhone has 1.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of smrtPhone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forefront CRM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
smrtPhone ships an update fortnightly, Forefront CRM every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | smrtPhone | Forefront CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.4K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | smrtStudio Global Inc. | Freedom Driven LLC |
Customer experience
smrtPhone
Forefront CRM
Bugs and requests
smrtPhone
Reported bugs
4 issues- Constant log-outs and sign-in issues
- Incorrect caller ID information
- Inability to adjust notification settings
- Syncing and integration problems with Podio
Requested features
4 requests- Add group messaging capability
- Improve contacts management and search
- Allow image/file sharing from website
- Enhance notification and call handling
Forefront CRM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
smrtPhone
No in-app purchases
Forefront CRM
No in-app purchases









