HanseMerkur ServiceApp vs SmartBreakdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HanseMerkur ServiceApp
Manage your HanseMerkur insurance policies easily. Submit documents like bills and prescriptions digitally, update your personal and banking information, and access personalized insurance services. Receive digital invoices and important documents securely within the app.
- Digital document submission (photos, scans, PDFs)
- Collect and submit documents later
- Digital invoice reception
- Update contact and banking details
- Request insurance certificates and clinic cards
- Access personalized health services
- Synchronize across multiple devices
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***The HanseMerkur ServiceApp with many new features*** The ServiceApp is available to all policyholders of HanseMerkur Krankenversicherung AG, as well as customers with pet surgery insurance, pet health insurance, or dog liability insurance from HanseMerkur Allgemeine AG (excluding contracts concluded in Austria). The app will gradually be made available for other areas of insurance as well. Use the app to quickly and easily submit documents online, such as medical or veterinary invoices, prescriptions, medical records, and other documents relating to your contract, or to submit a claim. Discover our wide range of personalised insurance services, such as updating contact and bank details, requesting certificates, granting authorisations, and - depending on your cover - accessing various health services for both people and animals. FEATURES Submission: Send us your documents conveniently using various methods (photo function, barcode scan, or PDF upload). For each document, you can choose which contract or person it relates to. You also have the option to store documents in the ServiceApp and submit them at a later time - for example, if you are still waiting for a statement or a related document is missing. Various personalised insurance services: These are displayed or hidden depending on your insurance cover and are always pre-filled with the data known to HanseMerkur, for example: • Change contact details (name, address, telephone, email) • Change bank details • Add authorisations • Request an addendum to the insurance policy/contract excerpt • Request tax office certificate • Change pet characteristics • Contact us (arrange call-back appointments, chat) • Health services • Terminate contract E-prescription: Policyholders with comprehensive health insurance can authenticate themselves via the ServiceApp in the app “Das E-Rezept”. This allows e-prescription data to be imported into the ServiceApp and submitted. Digital receipt of invoices: Invoices from your doctor or dentist can be received digitally in the postbox of your ServiceApp. You will receive almost all correspondence relating to your policy in encrypted form in your digital postbox, where you can sort and filter it, as well as print and export it individually or in full. Synchronisation: You can use the app on multiple devices simultaneously. All documents received in your postbox and all submissions made via the app are synchronised and displayed across all registered devices. SECURITY Your health data is sensitive and must be fully protected. Therefore, all documents are securely encrypted and stored within the app. The registration process has been optimised in line with the latest data protection requirements and requires a one-time registration using your email address, password, contract number, and PIN (as well as, where applicable, the eID procedure when using the e-prescription feature). REQUIREMENTS To use the ServiceApp, you need an active contract in the field of health insurance, pet health or pet surgery insurance, or dog liability insurance. Your iPhone or iPad must be running at least iOS 17. CONTACT If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the app, please email app@hansemerkur.de or call +49 40 4119-2099.
SmartBreakdown
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SmartBreakdown turns a screenplay into a breakdown your department can work from — prepared on Mac, worked on iPad with scenes, script and notes side by side, checked on iPhone between set-ups. Nothing leaves your device. No account, no cloud, no uploads — even the semantic search runs locally. For unreleased material under NDA, that is not an extra. It is the condition. NEW: MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold iPhone Duo and the scene splits at the fold: the screenplay on the left page, departments, notes and costs on the right — like pages beside a notebook. Fold it between set-ups and your scene is still open. READ THE SCREENPLAY Import a PDF and SmartBreakdown finds the scenes: headings, scene numbers, length in eighths, DAY/NIGHT and INT/EXT. Dialogue stays dialogue and action stays action, so the screenplay reads the way it was written. Scans work too, and any heading the app is unsure of is shown for you to check, not quietly guessed. BREAK IT DOWN YOUR WAY Name your own departments, give them your production's colours and a symbol, and assign them to any scene. Write notes per department — with formatting — attach reference images and videos, and highlight passages in the screenplay itself. Each department sees what concerns it, and nothing else. MARK UP WITH APPLE PENCIL On iPad, draw across the screenplay with Apple Pencil — a highlighter on paper, except that what it leaves behind can be filtered and exported. Double-tap to switch department; write notes by hand with Scribble. COST IT Put an estimate on any note — two phones, a rain bar, three doubles. Totals add up per scene, per department and across any scenes you choose, go into the PDF and Excel exports, and the app always shows what still has no amount. SCRIPT, STORY DAY AND CONTINUITY Every scene carries a running time, a story day and the clock time it plays at. Running times start as estimates from the scene's length and give way to the times you measure. See every scene of story day 2 at a tap, and know what the phone in shot or the watch in costume has to show. A NEW DRAFT KEEPS YOUR WORK Read in a revision without starting over. Departments, notes and markings hang on scene numbers, not on page positions. Coloured stripes in the margin show what each draft changed — blue pages, pink pages, as on paper — and you mark them as reviewed as you go. THE SHOOTING SCHEDULE Import a Movie Magic one-line schedule and the shooting days are linked to their scenes. Open a day to see its scenes in shooting order, with page count, running time, story days and your department's workload. FIND SCENES BY MEANING Search for "phone screen" or "someone gets a message" and find the scenes, even where the screenplay puts it in other words. EXPORT WHAT IS NEEDED, NOTHING MORE PDF and Excel reports filtered by department, scenes, episode or shooting day: the full breakdown, one department, a handful of scenes or a day sheet. Send a production — or one department's work alone — to a colleague as a single file, by AirDrop or any other way, and merge their changes back when it returns. YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS A production is a single file: save it, move it between devices, carry on where you left off. Open, read, print and export it — always, with or without a subscription. TRY IT FREE No screenplay to hand? Open the demo production: a fictional episode with a finished breakdown. 14 days with every feature unlocked, no account required. SMARTBREAKDOWN PRO Auto-renewing subscription: EUR 12.99 per month or EUR 99.99 per year; prices vary by region. A one-off purchase is also available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smart-app.dev/SmartBreakdown/support/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HanseMerkur ServiceApp at none against SmartBreakdown's 3. SmartBreakdown's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. SmartBreakdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. HanseMerkur ServiceApp asks for nothing beyond the download.
HanseMerkur ServiceApp ships an update every 4 months, SmartBreakdown every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HanseMerkur ServiceApp | SmartBreakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (151 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 151 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 521 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HanseMerkur Krankenversicherung AG | Stefan Hollekamp |
In-app purchases
HanseMerkur ServiceApp
No in-app purchases
SmartBreakdown
- Pro — monthly$11.991 Month
- Pro — yearly$89.991 Year
- SmartBreakdown Pro — one-off$229.00
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