Comparison

smrtPhone vs Forefront CRM

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

smrtPhone4 screens
Forefront CRM4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

smrtPhone ships an update fortnightly, Forefront CRM every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
smrtPhone versus Forefront CRM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersmrtPhoneForefront CRM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.4K ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews24.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DevelopersmrtStudio Global Inc.Freedom Driven LLC

Customer experience

smrtPhone

All ratings1,397 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive24.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative69.8%

Forefront CRM

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

smrtPhone

No in-app purchases

None

Forefront CRM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is smrtPhone free?
smrtPhone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forefront CRM free?
Forefront CRM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, smrtPhone or Forefront CRM?
smrtPhone is rated higher. smrtPhone averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Forefront CRM averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do smrtPhone or Forefront CRM have ads?
Neither smrtPhone nor Forefront CRM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, smrtPhone or Forefront CRM?
smrtPhone ships an update fortnightly, and Forefront CRM every 6 weeks. Most recently, smrtPhone was updated on September 22, 2026 and Forefront CRM on September 13, 2026.

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