Next Pool vs SMOROBOT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Next Pool
Effortlessly manage multiple smart home devices from a single, user-friendly interface. Enjoy on-demand accessibility to build your smart lifestyle and gain control anytime, anywhere with intuitive interaction.
- Manage multiple smart home devices
- User-friendly notifications
- Intuitive interaction
- On-demand accessibility
- Smart lifestyle building
- Remote control
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Next Pool-your inteigent hub to eftortlesly manage multile smart home devices. Curated with user-fmiendly notihications andintutive interaction, Next Pool alows for ondemand accesibilty to build your smart lifestyle. Gain control, anytime, anywhere with just a tap - welcome to the future of easy living with Next Pool.
SMOROBOT
Control and manage your pool cleaning robot with this app. Set up cleaning functions, customize modes, and monitor device status for an efficient and improved pool maintenance experience.
- Add pool cleaner easily
- Customized cleaning modes
- Intelligent device control
- Device status monitoring
- User cleaning habit tracking
- Over-the-air upgrades
- Real-time after-sales service
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Smorobot Pool Robot Control APP provides efficient and intelligent pool cleaning robot control and management services.Smorobot is a professional app for customers to set up cleaning functions and intelligence control, allowing users to manage pool cleaning equipment safe, efficient and better experience. ·Add pool cleaner with a few easy steps ·Customized cleaning mode setting and intelligent device control ·Quickly get the status of your device and user cleaning habits ·Convenient OTA upgrade ·Real-time after-sales service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SMOROBOT at 3.3 against Next Pool's 2.3. SMOROBOT also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Next Pool's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 0%) and ratings volume (19 vs 4). 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.
SMOROBOT holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Next Pool's written reviews are positive against 0% of SMOROBOT's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Next Pool ships an update every 2 months, SMOROBOT every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Next Pool | SMOROBOT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (19 ratings) | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 皎 王 | Suzhou Smorobot Technology Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Next Pool
SMOROBOT
In-app purchases
Next Pool
No in-app purchases
SMOROBOT
No in-app purchases
