Comparison

iBabs vs MiCollab for Mobile

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

Head to head
About

iBabs

Streamline your meetings with this paperless solution. Organize, prepare, and conduct meetings more efficiently by digitizing documents, sharing annotations, and assigning action points. Reduce administrative tasks and enhance collaboration for smoother, more substantive discussions.

Highlights
  • Automated meeting organizer
  • Document linking and PDF conversion
  • Restricted document access
  • Search and annotation sharing
  • Action point allocation
  • Decision recording
Features
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Paperless meetings with iBabs A meeting is more than just a discussion. After making an appointment, the organizing, mailing, printing and reading of the required documents often take longer than the actual meeting itself. iBabs makes everything more efficient. With years of experience in the administrative decision-making processes we know exactly what you need. The solution is a simple app which makes your meetings simpler, more substantive and more environmentally friendly. The only thing you need is a tablet or laptop and internet. Simple to plan iBabs provides users with a conveniently arranged, automated organizer which fits perfectly with the agenda of the user’s current mail system. Meetings taking place at the same venue and time, only need to be entered once; and the data can be reused again. Documents can be linked at any time to the required agenda and are automatically converted to PDF format. Subsequently, access to these documents can be restricted to authorized users only. Simple to prepare Delving through a stack of paper or a pack of post-it notes is now a thing of the past. By scrolling through the documents or using the search function and share annotations, iBabs helps you to work more efficiently: users can prepare for meetings anywhere, any time. Ensure smoothly-run meetings iBabs enables users to reduce the time needed to prepare for meetings and facilitates cooperation between colleagues. When a user open the iBabs app, he will immediately see the upcoming meetings’ agendas and any related documents. This means that everyone involved in the meeting will always have the correct versions on hand. Action points can, moreover, be allocated to specific persons in advance or during the meeting. Decisions can also be recorded. In fact, work is finished when the meeting ends. The agreements and decisions made can be retrieved from the recordings. Start straight away iBabs is a platform-independent app which is so user-friendly that you can get to work straight away. If, you would like an explanation, a short training course can be given.

About

MiCollab for Mobile

This mobile application unifies communication and collaboration tools, allowing employees to talk, chat, meet, and share information from anywhere. It extends office communications to any location, enabling calls, directory searches, instant messaging, and voicemail management directly from a smartphone.

Highlights
  • Unified communication and collaboration
  • Make and receive office calls
  • Corporate directory search
  • Instant messaging and video calls
  • Visual voicemail management
  • Status and call-routing preferences
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The Mitel® MiCollab® Mobile Client 9.6 requires MiCollab Server 9.6 or newer. MiCollab is a mobile first application, designed from the ground up for your iPhone, making it easier for employees to talk, chat, meet and share information from anyplace, at any time. Having communications and team collaboration in a single application, MiCollab extends your office communications to any location enabling you to make phone calls, search your corporate directory, chat with colleagues, check corporate voicemail, collaborate on team-based projects, and more, directly from your iPhone. Increase the ease of sharing information and speed of decision making within your organization by using the MiCollab Mobile client. The MiCollab Mobile client lets you: • Create a list of favorite contacts, speed dial numbers, and websites you can access in a flash • Search corporate contacts, see who is available, and choose how to contact them using voice, IM, point-to-point video, or email • Receive, place, and hand-off voice calls to/from the MiCollab Mobile client SIP Softphone over Wi-Fi® or 4G/5G networks • View your incoming, outgoing and missed call history for your office extension • Access visual voicemail for your office extension and manage messages by preference rather than by sequence • Manage and automatically update your status and call-routing preferences based on your location or time of day

Screenshots

iBabs3 screens
MiCollab for Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iBabs at 5.0 against MiCollab for Mobile's 2.3. iBabs also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). MiCollab for Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iBabs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MiCollab for Mobile has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iBabs ships an update every 2 months, MiCollab for Mobile every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iBabs versus MiCollab for Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriBabsMiCollab for Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.3 (36 ratings)
Positive reviews—15.2% of reviews
Number of ratings136 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiBabs B.V.Mitel Networks Corporation

Customer experience

iBabs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MiCollab for Mobile

All ratings36 ratings
Positive27.8%
Neutral8.3%
Negative63.9%
Written reviews112 reviews
Positive15.2%
Neutral8.9%
Negative75.9%

Bugs and requests

iBabs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

MiCollab for Mobile

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • App won't connect or register to server
  • Incoming calls show as missed calls instead of ringing
  • Call overlay doesn't work when phone is locked
  • Calls get stuck in 'IVR Connecting' state
  • App crashes on startup after updates
Show 14 more
  • Softphone won't stay open in background
  • Status changes don't register properly
  • ACD users randomly switched to different states
  • Mute button becomes unresponsive
  • Native phone option forced instead of app calls
  • Chat messages don't sync across devices
  • Chat notifications not received
  • Location services requirement on Android
  • Call quality degrades with certain WiFi networks
  • App hangs on loading screen
  • Battery drain causes phone shutdown
  • Calls lock up desk phone requiring reboot
  • Audio won't route through app speakers
  • Unexpected error crashes with image uploads

Requested features

14 requests
  • Answer calls from locked screen
  • Auto-add 9 prefix for external calls
  • Landscape mode support for iPad
  • CarPlay integration for vehicles
  • Ability to control ring group membership by status
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  • Pre-call audio device selection
  • Status change synchronization
  • Chat message read receipts
  • File sharing in messenger
  • Spell checker and text prediction
  • Disable work calls during off-hours
  • Better Bluetooth device switching
  • WiFi signal strength indicators
  • Call history sync with desktop app

In-app purchases

None

iBabs

No in-app purchases

None

MiCollab for Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iBabs free?
iBabs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MiCollab for Mobile free?
MiCollab for Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iBabs or MiCollab for Mobile?
iBabs is rated higher. iBabs averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while MiCollab for Mobile averages 2.3 from 36 ratings.
Do iBabs or MiCollab for Mobile have ads?
Neither iBabs nor MiCollab for Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iBabs or MiCollab for Mobile?
iBabs ships an update every 2 months, and MiCollab for Mobile every 6 weeks. Most recently, iBabs was updated on September 29, 2026 and MiCollab for Mobile on October 17, 2026.

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