ThinkSmart Manager vs POA Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ThinkSmart Manager
Streamline the management of your company's smart office devices. Remotely deploy, configure, protect, and update software on your entire fleet with ease. Offers tiered plans for comprehensive IT support.
- Remote device deployment
- Software configuration
- Security management
- Auto-updating agent software
- Enterprise fleet management
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Give your IT department some time back with ThinkSmart Manager, the official manageability console for your fleet of ThinkSmart smart office devices. IT can stop putting out fires by streamlining their management of every ThinkSmart device across the enterprise—remotely deploying, configuring, protecting, and auto-updating agent software on each one with ease. Choose from tiered plans.
POA Connect
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POA Connect enhances engagement and communications. The app includes a wide variety of useful information and allows the user to receive important messages, in a variety of formats, to assist with their functions and enhance their productivity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ThinkSmart Manager at 13.0 against POA Connect's 15.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ThinkSmart Manager | POA Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lenovo APLA | VOBO, LLC |
In-app purchases
ThinkSmart Manager
No in-app purchases
POA Connect
No in-app purchases
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