Sharpdesk Mobile vs Smart Printer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sharpdesk Mobile
Easily receive, preview, and store scanned documents from your Wi-Fi connected scanner directly to your mobile device. Print stored documents, attach them to emails, or share them with other applications.
- Receive scanned documents
- Preview documents
- Store documents on mobile
- Print stored documents
- Attach documents to email
- Share with other apps
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Sharpdesk Mobile can receive, preview and store scanned documents from your scanner to your mobile device connected to your Wi-Fi network. Sharpdesk Mobile can also print the documents stored in your mobile device to your printer, attach the scanned documents stored in this application to e-mail, and send the documents to other application in your mobile device to utilize them. For details, see Sharpdesk Mobile Web site: http://sharp-world.com/products/copier/docu_solutions/mobile/sharpdesk_mobile/ Sharpdesk is a trademark or registered trademark of Sharp Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. New features may require options and firmware updates for printer/scanner. See your local support web site for the detail.
Smart Printer
Easily scan documents and photos directly from your mobile device. Print files, PDFs, invoices, and more to any printer, whether you're at home or on the go. Share your printed memories and important documents conveniently.
- Scan documents and photos
- Print files and PDFs
- Print invoices and receipts
- Print boarding passes
- Print from anywhere
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Smart Printer: Mobile printer, scan help you to print photos and share them with family and friends. Print documents, PDF files, invoices, receipts, boarding passes, and more at home, at work, or while on the go! With the Smart Printer: Mobile Printer, Scan, now you can scan and print your files immediately from your printer. Smart Printer: Mobile Printer makes printing easy and convenient whether your printer is right next to you or across the world! Terms Of Use: https://dreamteam-apps.pl/term_of_use.txt Privacy Policy: https://dreamteam-apps.pl/privacy_policy.txt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Printer at 4.8 against Sharpdesk Mobile's 3.2. Smart Printer also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 43%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Printer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Printer has 84 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Sharpdesk Mobile's written reviews are positive against 79% of Smart Printer's.
Sharpdesk Mobile ships an update every 5 months, Smart Printer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sharpdesk Mobile | Smart Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (16 ratings) | 4.8 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sharp Corporation | DREAMTEAM APPS sp. z o.o. |
Customer experience
Sharpdesk Mobile
Smart Printer
Bugs and requests
Sharpdesk Mobile
Reported bugs
21 issues- Stopped working after a couple of months
- Cannot print since updating to version 2.5.0
- Says file is being sent but never prints
- Unable to print documents due to missing components
- Won't print PDFs, only photos
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- No longer prints pics from iPhone 6+
- Broken with iOS 11
- App broken with iOS 9.0
- Cannot communicate to printer successfully
- Not recognized on iOS 8's share sheet
- Cannot print from other apps
- Cannot print a page range from a document
- Cannot open local documents directly
- App crashes on start with iOS 7
- Needs iOS 7 update
- Scanning quit working
- Authentication configured on 5110
- Send to dialog box is blank
- iPad DR Collision error
- Won't find devices across a VLAN
- Cannot edit device name field
Requested features
8 requests- Option to print black-and-white by default
- Option to print specific pages from PDF
- Network support for mobile data (VPN)
- Add 'Open In' function again
- Link to OCR apps
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- User authentication for printing
- Ability to change device name
- Airplay emulation as default
Smart Printer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sharpdesk Mobile
No in-app purchases
Smart Printer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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