Smart vs Net Optimizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart
This app enhances your Wi-Fi experience by combining Wi-Fi and cellular data for a stronger, more stable connection. It also protects your data privacy by encrypting unsecured content and ensuring your Wi-Fi is safe.
- Wi-Fi and cellular data bonding
- Eliminates Wi-Fi dead zones
- Unclogs congested Wi-Fi
- Seamless Wi-Fi to cellular transitions
- Encrypts unsecured Wi-Fi content
- Protects data privacy
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Smart-Fi helps ensure your data stays connected and protected when you’re using Wi-Fi at home, work or on the move by intelligently protecting your connections and leveraging the cellular network when needed to maintain your data connectivity. It automatically turns on and off with your Wi-Fi connections which makes using Smart-Fi simple and easy to use. Wi-Fi & Cellular, better together. Smart. Smart-Fi provides two great features: Wi-Fi Bonding • Provides the best possible data connection by leveraging both the Wi-Fi and cellular data networks to keep your apps and services running. • By intelligently augmenting poor performing Wi-Fi with cellular data, Wi-Fi dead zones are eliminated. Congested Wi-Fi is unclogged with load-balancing of Wi-Fi and cellular which provides seamless transitions when moving from Wi-Fi to cellular coverage for most apps and services. Wi-Fi Security • Protects your data privacy when using Wi-Fi by automatically encrypting unsecured content and ensuring your Wi-Fi connection is safe. • Works without breaking most VPN sensitive apps like streaming video services. Notes and FAQs: • Please check the FAQs before submitting an issue. FAQs can be found here: https://www.mobolize.com/faqs/smart-fi/ • The VPN Icon (VPN active) will be visible on the Status Bar while any of features are running. You will also see occasional notifications when status changes in the app and as you connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi. • The Wi-Fi logo may disappear when the VPN is running, even though you are still connected to Wi-Fi. This is a known occurrence for all VPNs. To check you are still on Wi-Fi tap on your iPhone settings app and look at the Wi-Fi status. • Occasionally the app will notify you that “Poor Wi-Fi data connection has been detected” This can happen anywhere and anytime, even on your home Wi-Fi if the data connection is having trouble. • Reporting an issue with the application is performed by tapping the Menu (upper right corner of the app) and then tapping ‘Report problem.’ When reporting a problem, please be as specific as you can. • Please note that if you check the data or battery usage on your phone, it may appear as though this app is using a lot of data and battery. However, this app isn’t actually using all that data/battery. Reporting for the data/battery usage has been shifted from your other apps to this one, because your data now passes through this app so it can manage your security and connectivity. Actual battery usage will be minimal – on average 0.1%.
Net Optimizer
This app optimizes your internet connection by finding and connecting to the fastest DNS server available. It helps improve web surfing speeds and reduces lag and latency for online gaming.
- Find fastest DNS server
- Improve web surfing speed
- Reduce gaming lag and latency
- Automatic network optimization
- Supports mobile data and WiFi
- Wide range of DNS server support
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What is the benefit of Net Optimizer? - Find & Connect the fastest DNS server based on your location & network. - Improve web surfing speed with faster response time. - Fix lag and reduce latency (ping time) on online games for a better gaming experience. Features - Just one touch to find & connect the fastest DNS server to improve your connection. - Automatically detect connection changes and optimize the network. - Works for both mobile data (3G/4G/5G) and WiFi connection - Supports many different DNS Servers (Cloudflare, Level3, Verisign, Google, DNS Watch, Comodo Secure, OpenDNS, SafeDNS, OpenNIC, SmartViper, Dyn, FreeDNS, Alternate DNS, Yandex DNS, UncensoredDNS, puntCAT, and more) How it works? If you have a high-speed Internet connection but notice that your web browsing speed isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, then your problem may lie in the DNS. By optimizing your device's DNS records, you can find the fastest routes for your data packets to take when traveling the Internet. It won’t boost to your download/upload speed, but in some cases it can result in quite a noticeable improvement in web browsing time. At times, you may experience slow hiccups while trying to use the internet from your device. Sometimes, these problems can be attributed to your provider's DNS settings because your ISP may not always have the best DNS server speeds. Your default DNS server directly affects how fast you’ll be able to connect to a website. So choosing the fastest server according to your location will help speed up browsing. With Net Optimizer, you can find the fastest DNS server and connect to it with just one touch! So your browsing speed and gaming experience (ping and latency) can be improved. (But you should remember that DNS settings will not affect your internet download / upload speed but response time) Results Test results showed a 132.1 percent improvement from using Google's DNS servers over using the stock DNS servers, but in real world usage, it might not be exactly that much faster. Still, this one tweak might get you finally feeling like you have a blazing connection to the internet! Privacy Policy: https://apps.bgn.capital/privacy.html Terms Of Use: https://apps.bgn.capital/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Net Optimizer at 4.6 against Smart's 3.9. Net Optimizer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 70). Smart's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement 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. Net Optimizer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
Net Optimizer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Net Optimizer has 3.1K ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Smart's written reviews are positive against 70% of Net Optimizer's.
Smart ships an update every 3 months, Net Optimizer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart | Net Optimizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (70 ratings) | 4.6 (3.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 | 3.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobophiles Inc. | Ali Burak Goncu |
Customer experience
Smart
Net Optimizer
Bugs and requests
Smart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Net Optimizer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues
- Frequent crashes
- Compatibility problems with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More customization options
- Better server selection
- Improved compatibility with different devices
In-app purchases
Smart
No in-app purchases
Net Optimizer
- Net Optimizer 1 Month Premium$5.991 Month
- Net Optimizer 3 Day Free Trial3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Net Optimizer 1 Year Premium$39.991 Year
Questions
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