Zextras Chats vs Sonarpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zextras Chats
This secure corporate messaging app allows for real-time text communication, group chats, and virtual meetings. It integrates with Zextras Suite and Carbonio, offering file sharing and customizable notification settings. Users can manage chats, channels, and spaces with moderation tools.
- Text messaging and emoticons
- Group chat management
- Virtual meeting creation
- File sharing
- Push notification control
- Dark mode support
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Zextras Chats is the secure and private corporate messaging app, which works with Zextras Suite (3.0.0 or higher) and Zextras Carbonio. Access all your Zextras Chats anywhere and anytime from your smartphone - Send and receive text messages and emoticons. - Manage, modify, moderate 1:1 Chats, Group Chats, Spaces, and Channels, including the possibility to invite or remove attendees. - Edit name/topic/pictures of Spaces and Channels. - Create or participate in virtual meetings. - Share files in the chats. - Enable / Disable Push Notifications. - Dark mode supported. You may access basic or complete features accordingly to your license.
Sonarpad
This app helps you read, listen to, and organize various types of content, including documents, news, podcasts, and more. It offers text-to-speech functionality, search capabilities, and supports multiple export formats for your documents.
- Read and organize documents
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Import and export documents (DOCX, EPUB, PDF)
- Follow RSS news feeds
- Search and listen to podcasts
- Search and listen to radio stations
- Check routes, weather, and calendar
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Sonarpad Mobile is an app designed to read, listen with text-to-speech, search and organise content in a simple and accessible way. With Sonarpad, you can manage documents, follow news and podcasts, search for radio stations, check routes, weather, calendar information and other useful everyday tools. Main features: • Documents: import and read text files, documents, books and content organised in folders. • Imports: import personal documents and search for text content from supported public sources. • Exports: export documents to DOCX, EPUB and PDF. • Voice reading: use text-to-speech with the settings chosen by the user. • News: follow RSS sources, import and export OPML files and organise sources into folders. • Podcasts: search, listen to and manage podcasts. • Radio: search for stations by language, country, city and genre and listen to live broadcasts. • Routes: search for directions, store routes in Documents and listen to instructions with text-to-speech. • Weather and recent cities: check the weather and quickly switch between cities. • Calendar: check days, holidays, quotes and reminders. • App theme: choose between automatic, light or dark mode. Sonarpad was created with special attention to accessibility, VoiceOver support and simple screens. Some features require an Internet connection and may depend on the availability of the external services used.
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Verdict
Zextras Chats and Sonarpad are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Zextras Chats ships an update every 6 weeks, Sonarpad every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zextras Chats | Sonarpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 258 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zextras | Ambrogio Riili |
Customer experience
Zextras Chats
Sonarpad
In-app purchases
Zextras Chats
No in-app purchases
Sonarpad
No in-app purchases









