Comparison

TN5250 vs Strategy Mobile for iPad

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

Head to head
About

TN5250

This app provides easy access to an AS/400 (IBM iSeries) midrange server. It offers standard 5250 emulation features, secure connections, and convenient input methods like voice and barcode scanning.

Highlights
  • 5250 emulation
  • SSL/TLS security
  • Voice input
  • Barcode scanning
  • Customizable colors
  • Auto login
Features
Currently charting
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The AS/400 - also called the "IBM iSeries," is a midrange server from IBM, designed for the business world. TN5250 is a terminal emulator which provides access to an AS/400. Wants to receive print jobs from an AS/400, try Mocha TN3812 for iPhone/iPad. Before buying, please first try TN5250 Lite FEATURES: - Supports all standard 5250 emulation features. - Alternate screen size (24x80 or 27x132). - SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer). - Zoom and scroll as the Safari browser - Auto login. - Voice input. - Hardware barcode scanners from SocketMobile and Linea. - Support for Zebra RFD8500, CS4070 and LI3678 barcode scanner. - Camera as barcode scanner. - Clipboard. - Support for 10 different EBCDIC code pages. - Colors can be customized. - Device name support. - Hotspots.

About

Strategy Mobile for iPad

Build and deploy custom business applications quickly using a drag-and-drop interface. Create apps with branded designs, custom workflows, personalized content, and offline capabilities. Empower teams to mobilize systems and processes for enhanced productivity and customer experience.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop app design
  • Custom workflows and content
  • Offline access and data caching
  • Two-way data sync with enterprise systems
  • Embedded multimedia support
  • Personalized push notifications
  • Integration with enterprise assets
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Strategy lets anybody build and deploy mobile apps quickly. Using drag-and-drop click-to-configure design, combine branded look and feel, custom workflows, personalized content, advanced visualizations, mapping, transactions, multimedia, and multi-factor security into business apps that run natively online and offline on smartphones and tablets. Activate a team of citizen mobile app developers who can mobilize any system, process, or application. Join the 1000s of organizations who use Strategy Mobile to re-imagine how people work in various business functions and role. Enable sales teams to access and update every sales system from one mobile app. Inject intelligence into the hands of remote workers in factories, stores, branches, and hotels. Empower client-facing employees to deliver superior, personalized customer experience. Support business workflows with transaction-enabled apps • Monitoring your organization’s performance in the palm of your hand anytime and anywhere is a powerful business capability—but interacting with that information to approve requests, submit orders, change plans, and capture information as part of a business workflow takes that power to a new level. • Strategy Mobile enables write-back to systems of record (e.g. ERP and CRM), providing users with an interactive two-way mobile experience. Embed rich multimedia to increase user engagement • Enable mobile workforces to access anything from product brochures and sales presentations, to instructional videos and training manuals—when and where they’re needed • Strategy Mobile supports in-app viewing of multimedia content including videos, PDFs, images, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, email, and web content—all seamlessly embedded within a mobile app Drive user adoption and immediate action with personalized alerts • Data-driven smart alerts proactively inform users of potential business problems through the mobile device’s native push notification features, such as badges and banner notifications, enabling them to take immediate, corrective actions. Remove productivity barriers with offline access • Sophisticated caching algorithms enable users to fully interact with their apps, even in areas with limited or no network availability, helping them to maximize their productivity while on the move. Make every mobile app more intelligent with sophisticated analytics • Strategy Mobile is tightly integrated with the core Strategy platform, so organizations can fully benefit from its sophisticated analytical capabilities, compelling visualizations, high performance, and scalability. Connect to all your enterprise assets with speed and ease • With a vast library of native gateways and drivers, Strategy mobile apps can easily access data from any enterprise resource, including databases, enterprise directories, cloud applications, and more.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Strategy Mobile for iPad at Free against TN5250's $29.99. Strategy Mobile for iPad also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). TN5250's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 43%) and chart position (#137 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Strategy Mobile for iPad is free to download; TN5250 costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strategy Mobile for iPad holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of TN5250's written reviews are positive against 43% of Strategy Mobile for iPad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TN5250 ships an update every 5 months, Strategy Mobile for iPad every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
TN5250 versus Strategy Mobile for iPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTN5250Strategy Mobile for iPad
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (14 ratings)3.7 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.5% of reviews — better43.1% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#137 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMochaSoftMicroStrategy Inc.

Customer experience

TN5250

All ratings14 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral11.5%
Negative17.9%

Strategy Mobile for iPad

All ratings11 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral18.2%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive43.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative52.3%

In-app purchases

None

TN5250

No in-app purchases

None

Strategy Mobile for iPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TN5250 free?
TN5250 costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strategy Mobile for iPad free?
Strategy Mobile for iPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TN5250 or Strategy Mobile for iPad?
Strategy Mobile for iPad is rated higher. TN5250 averages 3.0 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Strategy Mobile for iPad averages 3.7 from 11 ratings.
Do TN5250 or Strategy Mobile for iPad have ads?
Neither TN5250 nor Strategy Mobile for iPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TN5250 or Strategy Mobile for iPad?
TN5250 ships an update every 5 months, and Strategy Mobile for iPad every 2 months. Most recently, TN5250 was updated on November 3, 2026 and Strategy Mobile for iPad on November 1, 2026.

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