Comparison

BoostyLink vs GoMate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Augments home broadband with cellular data
  • Seamless failover connection
  • Maintains public IP address
  • Prevents session disruption
  • Configurable data cap
Read full description

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.

About

GoMate

Features
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GoMate is a manage app to Edimax Travel Router, BR-6458TRX, to configure an Internet connection via Wi-Fi or Ethernet and VPN dial-out.

Screenshots

BoostyLink4 screens
GoMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BoostyLink at 14.0 against GoMate's 16.0. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BoostyLink versus GoMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoostyLinkGoMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHybrid Access Technologies LimitedEDIMAX

In-app purchases

None

BoostyLink

No in-app purchases

None

GoMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BoostyLink free?
BoostyLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoMate free?
GoMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BoostyLink or GoMate have ads?
Neither BoostyLink nor GoMate shows ads.

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