Install Helper vs RouteThis Certify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Install Helper
This utility app assists in the installation and configuration of ZTE's outdoor 4G/5G wireless routers. It uses an intelligent algorithm to detect and analyze network signal strength, guiding users to the optimal placement and orientation for their CPE device.
- Install ZTE 4G/5G wireless routers
- Intelligent signal strength detection
- Optimize CPE placement
- Network signal analysis
- Router configuration assistance
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The InstallHelper app helps you to install ZTE's outdoor 4G/5G wireless routers (CPE). Integrated with ZTE's intelligent algorithm, this app intelligently detects and determines 4G/5G network's signal strength to help you find the best position or orientation for CPE installation and configuration.
RouteThis Certify
This app helps installation technicians map WiFi coverage, ensure installation standards, and provide customers with personalized certificates detailing their home network performance. It offers automated signal quality projections and mesh placement recommendations for optimal router setup.
- Map wall-to-wall WiFi coverage
- Deliver personalized install certificates
- Guided installation checkpoints
- Cloud synchronization for support
- Automated signal quality projections
- Mesh placement recommendations
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Flawless WiFi connectivity on day one. Installations are your business' first impression - make it count. Installation sets the tone for the entire subscriber experience, if you don't get the installation right you open your business up to a number of problems down the road. Certify provides installation technicians a tool to quickly map wall to wall WiFi coverage while delivering your customers a personalized install certificate that explains exactly what they can expect from their new internet service in every room of their home once the technician leaves the premises. Technicians are guided through important installation checkpoints to ensure every install meets the same standards. The work they do throughout an install is synchronized to the cloud for support agents or repair technicians to pick up in the future. The Certify app also provides on-premise technicians with automated signal quality projections overlaid on a map of the customers home footprint including mesh placement recommendations so they can discuss optimal configuration of the network to help customers make better decisions on router placement or range extender / mesh addons. Customers are provided with a visual map in the shape of their home with WiFi speed measures in every room, leaving customers with a clear picture of what to expect from their home network. All of this is automated and completed in minutes while your install technician walks around the home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RouteThis Certify at 2.3 against Install Helper's 1.0. RouteThis Certify also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). Install Helper's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). 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.
RouteThis Certify holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RouteThis Certify has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Install Helper ships an update every 3 months, RouteThis Certify fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Install Helper | RouteThis Certify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 2.3 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 13.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZTE Corporation | RouteThis Inc |
Customer experience
Install Helper
RouteThis Certify
In-app purchases
Install Helper
No in-app purchases
RouteThis Certify
No in-app purchases
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