Softway vs Podium5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Softway
Access and manage your company's emails, inter-office messages, and contacts on your mobile device. Send, receive, search, and store important communications offline, with features like attachment saving and an autocomplete function.
- Send and receive company emails
- Access inter-office messages
- Offline email storage
- Company address book access
- Message search functionality
- Save and print attachments
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-Full access company mail on the move (send, receive) Ability to send and receive all your company's email in your iPhone or iPad and choose outgoing line (mail) like you do in your office! -Access inter-office messages Access to your inter office messages and be informed any time! -Store important mails for later use offline -Reading a message in your mobile and it appears as read in the system (Communicator) Start your daily work from your iPhone or iPad and log in as communicator user. -Company's address book on your mobile Ability to access company's address book in order to send messages -Search Messages option (Incoming - Outgoing - All messages) Powerful search engine for all messages while you are on the move -Ability to Save and Print Attachments -Autocomplete function with recent recipients -Personal Contacts also available -Access company's folders on your iPhone or iPad!
Podium5
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Mission-critical solutions for the global maritime community from Pole Star Global. Our objective is to organise the maritime world’s data and harness its true potential, for the benefit of our valued clients. Through our use of technology, we are dedicated to making maritime operations continually more effective, safer, and ever more efficient, with every day that passes. This application services the mobile fleet tracking and Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) management requirements of both OTiS and Podium5 platform subscribers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Softway at every 5 days against Podium5's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Softway ships an update every 5 days, Podium5 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Softway | Podium5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonios Georgiadis | StratumFive |
In-app purchases
Softway
No in-app purchases
Podium5
No in-app purchases








