Mercury Smart vs POWERbot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mercury Smart
This app allows you to transform your home into a smart house by managing and controlling multiple devices from a single interface. Receive real-time alerts and easily manage lighting, electronics, and security. Automate and customize your home's functionality with voice commands.
- Manage multiple smart devices
- Real-time alerts
- Control lighting and electronics
- Security alerts
- Voice command integration
- Home automation
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Mercury Smart Transform your home into a smart house. Manage and control multiple devices from a single app. Receive real-time alerts about what’s happening in your home or business. Easily manage lighting, electronic devices, and security alerts. Use voice commands to control compatible devices. Monitor, automate, and customize your home’s functionality.
POWERbot
This application allows you to control your robot vacuum remotely. Manage cleaning cycles, send the device back to its dock, and initiate other core functions directly from your smartphone.
- Remote vacuum control
- Docking station management
- Initiate cleaning cycles
- Basic robot functions
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POWERbot-S APP just helps you to release your hands from housework. You can only control you robot vacuum via app, to get started, go back to docking station or other controls.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: POWERbot at 100% against Mercury Smart's 57%. Mercury Smart's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 20 months). 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.
Mercury Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mercury Smart has 296 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Mercury Smart's written reviews are positive against 100% of POWERbot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mercury Smart ships an update every 5 weeks, POWERbot every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mercury Smart | POWERbot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (296 ratings) — better | 3.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 296 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grupo Empresarial Mercury S.A.S. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Mercury Smart
POWERbot
In-app purchases
Mercury Smart
No in-app purchases
POWERbot
No in-app purchases
