Wireless Image Utility vs Smart Projector Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wireless Image Utility
Project photos, documents, and web pages wirelessly to compatible NEC projectors from your mobile device. Features real-time camera projection, annotation tools, and projector control. Supports multiple simultaneous connections and split-screen display.
- Wireless image and document projection
- Real-time camera projection
- Web page projection
- Annotation and pointer tools
- Projector control features
- Multiple device connections
- Split-screen display
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************************************************* New application "MultiPresenter" is the successor to "Wireless Image Utility". Please search "MultiPresenter". ************************************************* Wireless Image Utility is a software for projecting photos and documents to the NEC projector via wireless LAN from iPad / iPhone / iPod touch. Main Features Images and documents stored in Wireless Image Utility can be projected to the projector. Photos in the album can also be projected to the projector. Camera Feature Images captured by the built-in camera can be projected to the projector in real time. Web Feature Web pages can be projected to the projector. Marker Feature You can draw lines or characters into projected photos / documents. Pointer Feature You can display the pointer where you want the attention of photos and documents. Projector Control Feature You can control the connected projector. Switching input signal, Picture-Mute, Sound-Mute, etc. are available. Multiple Connection Feature With projectors compatible with the multiple connection feature, connections can be accepted simultaneously with the multiple devices. In addition, images transferred from multiple devices can be displayed in split screen mode with multiple views and a single image can be displayed in full screen mode. Supported Projectors for Multiple Connection Feature: - NP-UM352W - NP-UM351W/NP-UM301W/NP-UM361X/NP-UM301X (FIRMWARE 1.02 or later) - NP-P502HL/NP-P502WL - NP-P502H/NP-P452H/NP-P502W/NP-P452W - NP-M403W/NP-M363W/NP-M323W - NP-M403X/NP-M363X/NP-M323X/NP-M283X - NP-M353WS/NP-M303WS/NP-M333XS - NP-M403H/NP-M323H Supported Projectors: - NP-M402H/NP-M322H - NP-M402W/NP-M362W/NP-M322W/NP-M402X/NP-M362X/NP-M322X/NP-M282X - NP-M332XS/NP-M352WS/NP-M302WS - NP-M361X/NP-M311X/NP-M271X/NP-M311W/NP-M271W - NP-M350X/NP-M300X/NP-M260X/NP-M230X/NP-M300W/NP-M260W/NP-M350XS/NP-M300XS/NP-M260XS/NP-M300WS/NP-M260WS/NP-M420X/NP-M420XV - NP-UM330X/NP-UM280X/NP-UM330W/NP-UM280W - NP-P501X / NP-P451X / NP-P451W / NP-P401W - NP-P420X/NP-P350X/NP-P350W - NP-PA621U/NP-PA521U/NP-PA671W/NP-PA571W/NP-PA721X/NP-PA621X - NP-PA600X/NP-PA500X/NP-PA550W/NP-PA500W - NP-PX800X/NP-PX700W/NP-PX750U (FIRMWARE3 1.05.137 or later) - NP-PH1000U (FIRMWARE3 1.05.137 or later) Supported Languages: English / Japanese / Simplified Chinese / German / French / Italian / Spanish / Swedish / Russian / Korean / Portuguese Available File Formats: - Adobe® PDF (.pdf, PDF1.7, Acrobat® 8 compatible) - Microsoft® Word (.doc / .docx, Office 2003 or later) - Microsoft® Excel® (.xls / .xlsx, Office 2003 or later) - Microsoft® PowerPoint® (.ppt / .pptx, Office 2003 or later) - Keynote (.key) - Numbers (.numbers) - JPEG (.jpg / .jpeg) - PNG (.png) - GIF (.gif) - TIFF (.tiff) - Bitmap (.bmp)
Smart Projector Control
Control Panasonic projectors remotely from your smartphone. Connect via Wi-Fi or USB to operate the projector and monitor its status directly from your device.
- Remote projector operation
- Projector status monitoring
- Wi-Fi connectivity
- USB connectivity
- Compatibility with Panasonic projectors
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Smart Projector Control is a smartphone application for operating Panasonic projectors. By installing Smart Projector Control onto your iPhone, and using wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) or USB to connect to a network containing a Panasonic projector, you can operate the projector and check the projector status from your smartphone. ---- Requirements ---- OS: iOS 17 / 18 / 26 iPhone 16 / iPhone 15 / iPhone 14 Pro / iPhone 13 / iPhone 13 mini / iPhone 12 / iPhone 11 / iPhone XS / iPhone XS Max / iPhone XR ---- Compatible Projectors (all U, E, EA versions of the below models are compatible) ---- See the following website for supported projectors. https://docs.connect.panasonic.com/projector/download/application/smartpj/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart Projector Control at 83% against Wireless Image Utility's 0%. Smart Projector Control also leads on rating (2.6 vs 2.4) and ratings volume (21 vs 5). Wireless Image Utility's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). 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.
Smart Projector Control holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Wireless Image Utility's written reviews are positive against 83% of Smart Projector Control's.
Wireless Image Utility ships an update every 4 months, Smart Projector Control every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wireless Image Utility | Smart Projector Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (5 ratings) | 2.6 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. | Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Wireless Image Utility
Smart Projector Control
In-app purchases
Wireless Image Utility
No in-app purchases
Smart Projector Control
No in-app purchases
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