OnSolve vs SmartPal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OnSolve
This app delivers critical communications directly to your mobile device. It's designed for organizations to send urgent updates and routine business information to employees, partners, and customers. Stay informed about important events that could impact operations, assets, and safety.
- Critical communication delivery
- Push notifications for updates
- Supports employees, partners, customers
- Urgent and routine message delivery
- Real-time event alerts
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Experience the upgraded OnSolve Mobile App! With over two billion notifications sent annually, OnSolve helps deliver critical communications to employees, partners, customers and other stakeholders directly on their mobile device. When an event occurs, communicating immediately is critical. Whether for urgent situations that can jeopardize operations, assets and safety, or for routine business operations. Download our mobile app to connect and start receiving push notifications regarding critical updates from your organization.
SmartPal
This AI-powered chatbot assists university students by answering course-related questions, providing personalized reminders, feedback, and encouragement to support their learning journey. It integrates with Canvas to offer timely academic assistance.
- AI-powered chatbot
- Canvas integration
- Course-related Q&A
- Personalized reminders
- Academic feedback
- Learning lifecycle support
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This app helps UMN students to self-regulate themselves. The SmartPal app has a built in chatbot that is connected to Canvas. Using AI technology, it can answer questions related to your course, such as syllabus, course topics, assignment timing, and grades. It also sends you personalized reminders, feedback, updates, and encouragements to support you throughout the learning lifecycle.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartPal at 3.3 against OnSolve's 1.9. SmartPal also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 14%). OnSolve's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (32 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SmartPal holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of OnSolve's written reviews are positive against 50% of SmartPal's.
OnSolve ships an update monthly, SmartPal every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OnSolve | SmartPal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (32 ratings) | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OnSolve | De Liu |
Customer experience
OnSolve
SmartPal
In-app purchases
OnSolve
No in-app purchases
SmartPal
No in-app purchases
