Ink Show vs Smart Case
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ink Show
This app allows you to wirelessly cast your pictures from your phone directly onto a compatible phone case. Transform your device's exterior into a dynamic display for your favorite photos.
- Cast pictures to phone case
- Wireless photo display
- Personalize phone exterior
- Dynamic image projection
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Cast your pictures to the screen on phone case
Smart Case
Personalize your phone case with a dynamic e-ink display. Sync photos, text, QR codes, to-do lists, and weather directly to your case for easy access and improved efficiency.
- Sync photos and text
- Display QR codes
- Integrate to-do lists and calendars
- DIY dynamic views with custom fonts and colors
- E-ink screen image enhancement
- Import business cards
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Through the Smart Case "Smart Phone Case" app, you can sync your favorite photos, text, QR codes, to-do lists, calendars, and weather to the e-ink screen on your phone case and display them. It comes with many interesting and practical theme wallpapers: popular memes, touching copy, motivational quotes, work lists, cartoons, national style graphics and texts, and anime, everything you need is here. DIY Dynamic View: You can add your favorite images and text, and freely set the font, color, direction, and size to create a unique dynamic view for yourself. Using an e-ink screen image quality enhancement algorithm, four-color display, clearer details and edges, more natural gradients, presenting illustrations and portraits closer to the real effect. Convenient Code Display: It's very tedious to open various QR codes every day. You can transfer your frequently used QR codes to the e-ink screen on the phone case for display, and scan the code by showing the e-ink screen. WeChat QR code, payment code, service code can all be scanned. Improve Work and Life Efficiency: You can import to-do items, schedules, business cards, and other information to the e-ink screen to improve work and life efficiency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Case at 3.0 against Ink Show's 2.6. Ink Show's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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 Case holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ink Show has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Ink Show's written reviews are positive against 50% of Smart Case's.
Ink Show ships an update every 2 weeks, Smart Case weekly. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Ink Show | Smart Case |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (33 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Tulianyun Technology Co., Ltd | 波 宁 |
Customer experience
Ink Show
Smart Case
Bugs and requests
Ink Show
Reported bugs
21 issues- App not working
- Photos not updating
- Image quality decreased
- Grainy/pixelated photos
- App stopped working
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- Error messages
- App freezes
- Stuck on preview
- Poor UI
- Hardware issues (case broken)
- Requires full photo access
- Requires internet connection
- Privacy concerns
- Photos scrambled
- Pictures are shrunk
- Photos are reversed
- Colors not vibrant
- Paid for nothing
- Not working for specific phones
- NFC error
- Notification no network
Requested features
12 requests- Update app regularly
- Improve image quality
- Add auto-resizing
- Add snap to grid function
- Add option to save work
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- Add ability to import only a few photos
- Add list of images with automatic change
- Add effects similar to original photo
- Add Italian language support
- Add Turkish language support
- Optimize for Turkey
- Add multiple pics at 1x
Smart Case
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ink Show
No in-app purchases
Smart Case
No in-app purchases
