Comparison

Zextras Chats vs Sonarpad

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Text messaging and emoticons
  • Group chat management
  • Virtual meeting creation
  • File sharing
  • Push notification control
  • Dark mode support
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Zextras Chats4 screens
Sonarpad4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Zextras Chats versus Sonarpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZextras ChatsSonarpad
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB258 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZextrasAmbrogio Riili

Customer experience

Zextras Chats

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sonarpad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Zextras Chats

No in-app purchases

None

Sonarpad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zextras Chats free?
Zextras Chats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sonarpad free?
Sonarpad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zextras Chats or Sonarpad have ads?
Neither Zextras Chats nor Sonarpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zextras Chats or Sonarpad?
Zextras Chats ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sonarpad every 3 weeks. Most recently, Zextras Chats was updated on November 3, 2026 and Sonarpad on October 31, 2026.

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