Q vs ThinkSmart Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Q
Control Q-SYS systems remotely from your iOS device. Design custom user interfaces in Q-SYS Designer software to manage various system elements like audio, video, and lighting. Offers extensive control capabilities for a seamless user experience.
- Remote system control
- Customizable user interfaces (UCIs)
- Source selection
- PTZ camera control with video preview
- Lighting dimmer control
- Volume faders
- Signal meters
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Control Q-SYS systems from your iOS device! Within Q-SYS Designer software, user control interfaces (UCIs) can be created, and nearly any element in the system can be placed in the UCIs for control and monitoring. This enables a near limitless array of control capability, all from your iOS device, including source selection buttons, Q-SYS PTZ camera controls (with video preview frames), lighting dimmer controls, projector on/off selector, signal meters, screen up/down, snapshot recall, volume control faders, and more. This app is designed for use with QSC's Q-SYS Platform only. Q-SYS UCI deployment onto a Core processor for use with TSC touch screens, UCI viewer for PC and iOS app requires license activation. Visit www.qsc.com/uci for more details.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ThinkSmart Manager at 100% against Q's 19%. ThinkSmart Manager also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Q's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 3). 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.
ThinkSmart Manager holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Q has 53 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Q's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThinkSmart Manager's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Q | ThinkSmart Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | QSC Audio Products, LLC. | Lenovo APLA |
Customer experience
Q
ThinkSmart Manager
In-app purchases
Q
No in-app purchases
ThinkSmart Manager
No in-app purchases
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