Pool Robot vs iPlay File Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pool Robot
Manage your smart pool cleaner directly from your phone. Adjust settings, use manual remote control, and monitor pool temperature, battery, and charging status.
- Smartphone control
- Customizable settings
- Manual remote control
- Pool temperature monitoring
- Battery level display
- Charging status readouts
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Control your Pool Robot with the convenience of your smartphone. Customizable settings, manual remote control as well as pool temperature, battery level and charging status readouts.
iPlay File Manager
Manage all your files with this comprehensive tool. It supports numerous formats for viewing, editing, and playing media, with easy organization and sharing capabilities. Create folders, playlists, and import files from other applications.
- Supports all known file formats
- Play videos and listen to songs
- Edit text files
- View images
- Create and organize folders
- Zip and unzip files
- Import files from other apps
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File Manager is a strong file editor It support all known file formats You can play your videos Listen your songs Edit your text files View your images You can create folders easily Order your files just drag & drop Create playlists from your media You can import files from other apps You can share You can zip & unzip Code support Html Support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pool Robot at 3.0 against iPlay File Manager's 2.0. Pool Robot also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). iPlay File Manager's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 14%) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Pool Robot holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of Pool Robot's written reviews are positive against 50% of iPlay File Manager's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pool Robot ships an update every 3 months, iPlay File Manager every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pool Robot | iPlay File Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) — better | 2.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apps Dev Team s.r.o. | Cigdem Akalin |
Customer experience
Pool Robot
iPlay File Manager
In-app purchases
Pool Robot
No in-app purchases
iPlay File Manager
No in-app purchases
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