mce Connect vs BoostyLink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mce Connect
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Diagnose, troubleshoot, trade-in, check warranty eligibility and claims for your mobile device. Get a quick snapshot of your iPhone’s state of health and solve issues. Automated diagnostics will check and grade your device for trade-in, warranty, repair and return eligibility. Get smarter with smart suggestions to learn how to use and optimize your iPhone. Get remote help directly from your provider’s call center experts.
BoostyLink
Enhance your home internet reliability by using your smartphone's cellular data as a backup. This app ensures a seamless failover connection, keeping your online sessions active and your public IP address consistent, even when your primary broadband goes down. Set a data cap to avoid unexpected charges.
- Augments home broadband with cellular data
- Seamless failover connection
- Maintains public IP address
- Prevents session disruption
- Configurable data cap
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This app is a companion to your Hybrid/Boosty enabled home router, and will boost the reliability of your home broadband connection by augmenting it with the cellular on your smartphone. For those gamers who can't tolerate any disruption, or for people working from home and their broadband needs to always stay up, this is an invaluable solution to always keep you online. To get it to work there are a few simple steps: Ensure that your home router supports the Hybrid/Boosty functionality. Contact your ISP to check if it is Connect your smartphone to your home router's Wi-Fi connection as normal Turn on the app and confirm you want your smartphone to work in tandem with your home router That's it you're up and running! When your home broadband goes down this app will seamlessly kick in as a failover connection and will keep your existing sessions up and your public IP address the same. As soon as your home broadband comes back on-line we'll stop using your mobile data. To ensure you never get any surprise bills you can specify a data cap, after which we stop using your cellular data.
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Verdict
mce Connect and BoostyLink are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
mce Connect ships an update every 4 weeks, BoostyLink monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mce Connect | BoostyLink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.3 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | mce Systems | Hybrid Access Technologies Limited |
In-app purchases
mce Connect
No in-app purchases
BoostyLink
No in-app purchases
Questions
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