Comparison

SmartLink Professional vs Kickback Platform

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SmartLink Professional

This app provides property managers, owners, and residents with a platform to control smart devices, track usage, and improve efficiency. It offers real-time insights and customizable automation for smart homes and communities.

Highlights
  • Real-time smart device insights
  • Customizable automation for energy optimization
  • Secure resident access to smart devices
  • Multifamily property management tools
  • Smart City integration
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Connect IoT empowers property managers, owners, and residents with a seamless platform to manage smart devices, monitor usage, and optimize efficiency. Taken the first approach to Smart City. Key Features: - Real-time insights for smart thermostats, water meters, and security systems. - Customizable automation to optimize energy use and reduce costs. - Secure resident access for door locks and other smart devices. - Tailored for multifamily properties to enhance operational oversight. - Compatible with devices managed by property owners—Connect IoT is the future of property management!

About

Kickback Platform

Features
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Kickback is the AI-powered platform for the home service pro's back office. It connects to the tools you already run your business on and turns your estimates, jobs, and invoices into work that actually gets done. Follow up on every quote, automatically drafted, ready to send. Most estimates don't die because the price was wrong. They die because nobody followed up. Kickback Follow-Up enrolls your open estimates into proven follow-up cadences and hands your reps a simple daily queue: • The Outreach Outbox: open the app and see exactly who's due for a touch today. Swipe through them one at a time, no spreadsheets, no sticky notes. • AI-drafted texts and emails: every touch comes with a draft written from the real details of the estimate. The customer, the scope, even insights from linked sales-call recordings. Edit it or send it as-is. • Send from your own number: texts go out through your iPhone's Messages app, from you, not a robo-number your customers won't recognize. Emails send through your connected account. • The right photo, every time: build a media library of finished jobs, before-and-afters, and walkthrough videos. Kickback auto-tags them and suggests the best attachment for each message. • A pipeline that stays honest: log the outcome of every touch — replied, thinking it over, won, lost — and watch open value, overdue follow-ups, and 30-day wins on one dashboard. • Push notifications: know when follow-ups are due so nothing slips. Every dollar in its place. Kickback Costing pulls vendor invoices from suppliers like Sherwin-Williams, The Home Depot, and Lowe's, matches them to the right Housecall Pro job automatically, and syncs approved costs back — so your job costing reflects reality without anyone chasing receipts. Connect Housecall Pro, your vendors, and your call-recording tools a single time. Every Kickback product — including team insights and coaching features on the way — runs on the same connected data. Invite your whole team, control who sees what, and keep a full activity history of every change. Built for the trades. Kickback is made for painting contractors and other home-service companies that run on Housecall Pro. If your quotes are going cold in someone's inbox, Kickback puts them back to work. *A Kickback Platform account is required. Some features require a connected CRM account, and sending texts uses the your iPhone's Messages app via iOS Shortcuts.

Screenshots

SmartLink Professional4 screens
Kickback Platform4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SmartLink Professional at 13.0 against Kickback Platform's 18.6. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SmartLink Professional versus Kickback Platform: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartLink ProfessionalKickback Platform
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConnect IoT, LLCKickback, LLC

In-app purchases

None

SmartLink Professional

No in-app purchases

None

Kickback Platform

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartLink Professional free?
SmartLink Professional is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kickback Platform free?
Kickback Platform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartLink Professional or Kickback Platform have ads?
Neither SmartLink Professional nor Kickback Platform shows ads.

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