Smart vs Runway assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart
This parking management tool simplifies guest registration and parking access for residents. It has evolved from a simple online form into a widely used parking application across the United States.
- Guest registration
- Parking access management
- Resident parking
- Online guest form
- Vehicle registration
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Our goal of making easy-to-use, accessible software is no more evident than in our Parking Attendant. What started off as a simple online guest form has now become the parking app for over 120,000 residents across the US.
Runway assistant
This app prioritizes your day by visualizing remaining time against commitments. It distinguishes between time-bound commitments and flexible todos, offering intelligent follow-ups and personalized task suggestions based on urgency and importance.
- Visual daily planner
- Commitment vs. todo distinction
- Smart follow-up check-ins
- Urgency and importance prioritization
- Configurable repeating tasks
- Speech and text input capture
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Most task apps wait to be asked. This one speaks first. It holds your commitments and your todos, works out what deserves your attention right now, and follows up afterwards to find out what actually happened. THE DAY, NOT THE LIST The home screen is what's left of today, drawn to scale: the time you still have, set against everything you still owe. When a meeting runs long, it recomputes. When you say you're spent, it surfaces the work that doesn't ask much of you. COMMITMENTS AND TODOS ARE DIFFERENT THINGS A commitment occupies a block of wall-clock time. You can be in only one at once, and two of them can conflict. A todo comes due at a moment but reserves no time, so todos never conflict and can pile up. Calling someone at 8pm is a todo. Dinner is a commitment. Collapse the two into "tasks" and you lose the ability to say when a day simply will not fit. When something has been carried for weeks without moving, promote it — give it real time on the calendar, with a find-a-time flow that works around what is already there. CHECK-INS: WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED At the end of a commitment or a todo, you get one question. Did this happen? Done, partly, didn't happen, still going. One tap, answerable from the Lock Screen. Your answers are the only thing the app treats as fact. Nothing is inferred from your location, your motion or your Focus mode. And when check-ins go unanswered, it says so — that today's plan is built from intentions rather than facts — instead of showing you a stale day and calling it accurate. IMPORTANCE AND URGENCY ARE NOT ONE AXIS Importance is how much follows from something not happening. You declare it, and it holds. Urgency is how close something is to being too late — read from the clock, never declared, always current. Kept apart, so "quiet but consequential" and "loud but trivial" never look alike. Add energy level, place and category, and you can ask the question that actually comes up: what can I do at my computer, in twenty minutes, while I'm tired? TWO KINDS OF REPEATING Fixed recurrence comes from the calendar alone — the last Friday of every month, whether or not you did the last one. Completion recurrence measures from when you actually finished: two weeks after the grass was last cut. Finish late and the next one moves late. They are different machines, and they behave differently. CAPTURE THAT DOESN'T INTERROGATE YOU Speak or type. It never stops mid-sentence to ask a clarifying question. It makes a guess, then shows you the guess, labelled, so you can correct it later at no cost. "I guessed the time." Nothing reaches your calendar without your confirmation first. IT INTERRUPTS ON A BUDGET There is a limit to how much of your attention it will spend on its own initiative each day. That budget contracts when you stop responding and expands when you engage. Nothing it declines to interrupt with is discarded — it waits somewhere that costs you nothing, and you can always ask why a given thing didn't fire. When one prompt goes unanswered, it grows more persistent rather than louder: a notification, then time-sensitive, then a Live Activity pinned to your Lock Screen until you answer it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No login. No server. Your data lives on your device and syncs only across your own devices. There is no team, no sharing, no collaborators and nothing to sign up for. Your history is yours to delete at any time, and deleting it won't break your recurring items. Commitments are written into your system calendar, so they appear on your Watch, in CarPlay and anywhere else you already look — always after you've confirmed it, and always saying why. Requires iOS 26 or later. iPhone only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Runway assistant at 100% against Smart's 0%. Runway assistant also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7). Smart's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and ratings volume (146 vs 4). On update cadence, 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
Smart is free to download; Runway assistant costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Runway assistant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart has 146 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Smart's written reviews are positive against 100% of Runway assistant's.
Smart ships an update every 2 weeks, Runway assistant every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart | Runway assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 1.7 (146 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 146 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TowCentric LLC | Milad Hosseinpour |
Customer experience
Smart
Runway assistant
Bugs and requests
Smart
Reported bugs
22 issues- App is deceiving, pretends glitches, approves wrong address
- App expired tag, won't let user renew, locked user in apartment
- App doesn't send verification code
- App refuses to let user log in after password updates
- SMS messages not working, no code received
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- App won't let user save car info, leading to towing
- App has glitch where apartments can't register visitors
- App gives login error after multiple password changes
- App shows 'Invalid Credentials' after password resets
- App doesn't allow login, shows 'Invalid Login Credentials'
- App doesn't send reset code
- App doesn't send SMS for password reset
- App doesn't allow registration due to missing vehicle model
- App requires location to be turned off to find property
- App crashes when trying to register
- App doesn't fetch user's location
- App shows blank or white screen on login
- App doesn't let user select property
- App text is crowded and overwrites itself on smaller iPhones
- App glitches and fails to allow parking permit requests
- App freezes on page after clicking 'request permit'
- App closes when trying to select properties
Requested features
15 requests- Add fallback mechanism to specify email for code
- Add option to edit personal information
- Add option to delete account
- Provide customer service contact information
- Add missing vehicle models
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- Allow users to turn on location services
- Allow longer parking durations
- Improve app stability on iPad
- Allow users to delete the app
- Provide a list of nearby properties
- Send reminders for expiring/expired parking
- Allow users to renew parking passes earlier
- Improve app interface for smaller screens
- Allow users to search for properties
- Fix app crashes when selecting properties
Runway assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Smart
No in-app purchases
Runway assistant
No in-app purchases








