Balsio vs SmartPDF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balsio
This professional chat application helps you keep work conversations separate from personal life. It allows communication with colleagues and external contacts using only work emails, fostering focused productivity and cross-organizational collaboration.
- Separate work and personal conversations
- Chat using work email only
- Connect across companies
- Collaborate with clients and partners
- Interoperability with WhatsApp (select regions)
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Balsio – A chat app for work conversations Work messages often end up in the apps we use with friends and family. Balsio gives work conversations a separate place. With Balsio, you can: - Message anyone using their work email. No phone numbers needed. - Keep work and personal messages in separate apps. - Talk with people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. - Message your WhatsApp contacts without leaving Balsio (available in the European Economic Area, where contacts have enabled third-party chats). - Organize chats into lists by project or client, reply in threads, and snooze chats or mark them as done. Tools like Slack and Teams are for conversations inside your company. Balsio is for conversations with the people outside it: clients, partners, and suppliers. If you have used a personal chat app before, Balsio will feel familiar.
SmartPDF
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SmartPDF — PDF Toolkit Pro is your complete PDF toolkit for iPhone. Scan, read, organize, edit, sign, and protect documents in one fast and clean workflow. 12 powerful PDF tools • Image to PDF • Word to PDF • Merge PDF • Split PDF • Compress PDF • Page Manager • OCR Extract • Annotate • Sign PDF • Watermark • Redact Text • Password Protect Scan, Read & Create • Scan documents with your camera • Import images and turn them into PDFs • Open PDFs in a built-in reader • Search text inside documents • Browse pages with thumbnails • Save bookmarks and continue where you left off Premium • 7-day free trial for premium features • One-time purchase after trial, no subscription • Restore purchases on devices using the same Apple ID SmartPDF helps you stay productive wherever you are — whether you need to scan paperwork, sign a contract, extract text with OCR, or protect sensitive files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Balsio at none against SmartPDF's 1. SmartPDF's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. SmartPDF sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Balsio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Balsio ships an update weekly, SmartPDF every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balsio | SmartPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fyello Productivity SIA | Sergino Elisha A. |
In-app purchases
Balsio
No in-app purchases
SmartPDF
- SmartPDF Premium$4.99









