Pool Smart vs RR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pool Smart
This app simplifies pool maintenance by teaching water balance and calculating precise chemical dosages based on your pool's size and construction. It helps you save money and achieve sparkling clean water with less guesswork.
- Water balance education
- Chemical dosage calculation
- Pool size and construction input
- Testing checklist
- Money-saving tips
- Clorine pool support
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Save money while maintaining your pool ! By understanding how to maintain water balance, you will use fewer chemicals to keep your pool sparkling clean. Used by residential pool owners and professionals around the world. Twenty+ years of first hand pool experience is presented in this app ! Pool Smart teaches you the basics of water balance and provides a checklist for testing your water. Based on your pool size and construction, Pool Smart calculates the exact amount of each recommended chemical to use. Forget the complicated tables on the chemical containers! Take the guess work and frustration out of pool maintenance, and use Pool Smart as your simple check list to achieve a season of sparkling water and savings ! Enjoy the water ! *Pool Smart only supports chlorine based pools, it does not currently support salt water pools or spas.
RR
Enhance your reading efficiency with this app. It offers customizable speed, font, and size settings for a personalized experience. Track your progress and improve comprehension on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac.
- Customizable reading speeds
- Adjustable fonts and sizes
- Personalized reading experience
- Progress tracking
- Word-by-word reading
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Read saved text one word at a time at a pace you choose. • Create a reading from your own text • Find saved readings by searching titles and text • Adjust reading speed, font, and text size • Pause and resume the reader • Edit and share saved text • Search Wikipedia and read short result excerpts Saved readings work offline. Wikipedia search requires an internet connection and sends your search terms to Wikimedia. Search text is sent as you type after three characters. No app account is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RR at Free against Pool Smart's $1.99. RR also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Pool Smart's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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
RR is free to download; Pool Smart costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pool Smart has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pool Smart ships an update every 4 months, RR every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pool Smart | RR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | BetterWay Apps LLC | Nathan Fennel |
Customer experience
Pool Smart
RR
In-app purchases
Pool Smart
No in-app purchases
RR
No in-app purchases
