Yarbo vs SmartProBono
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yarbo
Control your robotic snow removal system with this app. Plan snow removal areas, manage operations, and monitor progress in real-time. Features include manual control, location tracking, and automatic charging.
- Area planning for snow removal
- Automatic plan creation
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Manual controller usage
- Location tracking
- Auto return charging
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This app allows you to control all the functions of Yarbo robotics, including: - Planning the total area for snow removal, - Managing the total area, - Creating automatic plans, - Monitoring the progress of Yarbo in real-time, - Using the manual controller, - Locating your Yarbo, - Managing your profiles, - Enabling auto return charging.
SmartProBono
This safety app allows users to easily record audio or video of important moments, automatically capturing location data. It enables sharing of these recordings and location with a trusted contact during emergencies. All recorded events are stored in a history for later review, sharing, or deletion.
- One-tap audio/video recording
- Automatic location capture
- Add trusted emergency contacts
- Share location and recordings
- Safety event history
- Name and manage events
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SmartProBono is a safety app that helps you record, document, and share important moments when you need support. RECORD SAFETY EVENTS • Choose audio-only, video, or both • One-tap recording with clear stop button • Automatic location capture for every event EMERGENCY CONTACT • Add a trusted contact during setup • Share your location and recordings when you use Safety Mode SAFETY HISTORY • View past events with timestamps and locations • Play, share, or delete recordings • Name events for easy reference DESIGNED FOR EVERYDAY SAFETY SmartProBono keeps things simple—record when you need to, share when you want to, and keep everything in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartProBono at 5.0 against Yarbo's 4.3. SmartProBono also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%). Yarbo's advantage is ratings volume (786 vs 4). 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.
SmartProBono holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yarbo has 786 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Yarbo's written reviews are positive against 100% of SmartProBono's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yarbo | SmartProBono |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (786 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 786 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 253 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yarbo | Baheem Ferrell |
Customer experience
Yarbo
SmartProBono
Bugs and requests
Yarbo
Reported bugs
29 issues- Difficulty maintaining GPS signal
- Overheating issues
- Problems with blades
- Slow support response
- Frequent software bugs and errors
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- Unit goes out of boundaries
- GPS problems under trees
- Charging issues related to GPS
- Unit slips on hills
- Unit has problems going around obstacles
- Unit skips long sections
- Poor cut quality
- GPS signal drops
- Unit goes out of boundary
- Requires significant manual intervention
- Bad pathing
- Poor obstacle avoidance
- Poor person detection
- Shoddy UX
- Software issues
- Connection issues (Wi-Fi and data)
- App is dysfunctional and frustrating
- Impossible to operate continuously
- Requires constant reconnecting/deleting/reconnecting
- No technical support available
- Cannot map
- Tutorials are a joke
- Unit gets lost under a tree during mapping
- Mower never delivered
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit maps
- Ability to draw no-go zones without driving the unit
- More human-readable diagnostic info
- Ability to program mowing every other day or every three days
- Ability to see programs while the unit is running
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- More focus on resolving customer issues
SmartProBono
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yarbo
No in-app purchases
SmartProBono
No in-app purchases
