Comparison

HOBART SmartConnect vs Modotti

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

Head to head
About

HOBART SmartConnect

Monitor and analyze the performance of connected commercial kitchen and dishroom equipment. Receive email notifications for errors and events to prevent downtime. Optimize operations and reduce costs with detailed performance data.

Highlights
  • Machine monitoring and analysis
  • Email notifications for errors and events
  • Dishmachine cycle analysis
  • Sanitization status and logging
  • Resource consumption and cost tracking
  • Service request submission
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Commercial Kitchen & Dishroom Performance at Your Fingertips with SmartConnect For HOBART and other ITW equipment with built-in WiFi, get connected with the new SmartConnect app. Create better procedures and performance with machine monitoring, analysis, and email notifications. ITW SmartConnect365 Suite of Apps • Get Connected: SmartConnect will pair with any compatible WiFi enabled equipment across ITW Food Equipment Group brands. • Machine Status: Manage your equipment and fleet with machine status for all your connected machines. • Error Codes & Event History: Prevent downtime with monitoring and emails for errors or events, and easily submit a service request when needed. Dishmachine Features* • Operating & Cleaning Cycles: Create better dishroom operations and procedures by analyzing dishmachine wash cycles and run-time over days, weeks and months in the easy-to-use graphs. • Sanitization Status & Logging: Maintain food safety with views to current wash and rinse temperatures, temperature history graphs, and temperature log files sent right to your email. • Resource Consumption & Cost: Lower your operating costs by analyzing water and energy cost and consumption over days, weeks, and months. Learn more about the ITW SmartConnect365 Suite of apps at https://www.itwfoodequipment.com/smartconnect365 *Not all features are available in every country or product model. Compatibility: HOBART AM16, HOBART AMTL.

About

Modotti

Features
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Modotti brings your notes, your tasks and your AI assistant together in one place, on Mac and iPhone. Everything you write, save and plan lives in ordinary Markdown files, in a folder you choose. No account, no Modotti server, no lock-in. YOUR ASSISTANT PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Every chat that starts from zero costs you the context you already had. In Modotti, that context lives in a folder. Connect Claude or ChatGPT on your Mac and your assistant reads the notes you read, adds tasks to the lists you use and writes new notes where they belong. Next time, it carries on from where it stopped. How far that goes is up to you. Reading and writing are separate permissions, per assistant. One project or all of them. Every action shows up in a local log, and access ends the moment you say so. Modotti runs no AI and sells no AI; the connector uses the assistant account you already have. NOTES AND TASKS, ONE CLICK APART Write a note on your Mac. Add a task to your project. Tick it off on your phone. Notes and tasks live in the same app and the same folder: one click and you're in your task list, one click and you're back in your note. No second app, no second system to keep up with. EVERYTHING YOU NEED, IN ONE PLACE The article you want to read tonight. The PDF of the contract, the recording of the interview, the video you want to watch back. Save a page from Safari with the Modotti Web Clipper on Mac, or share it to Modotti from your iPhone, and read it later. Share a note as text, or save it as a PDF in Modotti's own layout. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Modotti writes ordinary Markdown files to a folder you choose. Open them in any text editor or Markdown app, with or without Modotti. Already have a second brain in another Markdown app? Modotti reads those same files. ON YOUR MAC AND ON YOUR PHONE Keep the folder on one device, or put it in iCloud under your own Apple Account. Apple handles the sync. Modotti has no sync server and never gets a copy. PAY ONCE OR SUBSCRIBE Monthly and yearly plans start with seven days free for eligible App Store accounts. Or buy Modotti once, with no recurring fee. Every option covers Mac and iPhone; the App Store shows the price for your country. Paying keeps the app improving and up to date. You don't pay for access to your own files. Stop paying, and they stay yours, in the folder you chose. Terms of Use (Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Modotti is made by Marcel van der Steen, a Dutch journalist, photographer and documentary maker. After sixteen years of working mostly in the Balkans and the Arab world, he built the app he could never find: one place for all his notes and tasks, in files that stay his. Built for journalists, photographers, filmmakers and other makers whose work moves between research, notes, deadlines and tasks.

Screenshots

HOBART SmartConnect4 screens
Modotti4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HOBART SmartConnect at none against Modotti's 3. Modotti's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Modotti sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. HOBART SmartConnect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HOBART SmartConnect ships an update every 6 weeks, Modotti weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HOBART SmartConnect versus Modotti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHOBART SmartConnectModotti
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperITW Food Equipment GroupMarcel van der Steen

In-app purchases

None

HOBART SmartConnect

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Modotti

Subscriptions2
  • Modotti7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Modotti7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Modotti$69.99

Questions

Is HOBART SmartConnect free?
HOBART SmartConnect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Modotti free?
Modotti is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HOBART SmartConnect or Modotti have ads?
Neither HOBART SmartConnect nor Modotti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HOBART SmartConnect or Modotti?
HOBART SmartConnect ships an update every 6 weeks, and Modotti weekly. Most recently, HOBART SmartConnect was updated on October 24, 2026 and Modotti on October 15, 2026.

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