Comparison

meter.me installer vs smart.router

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

Head to head
About

meter.me installer

This app facilitates the installation and maintenance of a water monitoring system. It is designed for IoT installers to manage solutions in locations lacking power or internet connectivity, tracking various water-related metrics.

Highlights
  • Water monitoring system installation
  • System maintenance
  • Offline deployment capability
  • IoT installer focused
  • Track tank and well levels
  • Monitor water usage
Features
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Install the meter.me water monitoring and management system using the meter.manage app. Our system can be deployed to areas with no power and no internet available. With meter.manage IoT installers can easily install and maintain solutions for monitoring water usage, tank levels, well levels, pond levels, and more.

About

smart.router

Features
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smart.router keeps your internet up. Most buildings now have more than one way onto the internet: fibre, fixed wireless, satellite, cellular. Having two is not the same as staying online, because nothing moves your traffic when one of them stops. That is what this does. smart.router manages the router on your premises. It watches every connection, moves your traffic to a working one when one fails, and moves it back when it recovers. The router decides on its own, in seconds, and keeps deciding even when it cannot reach us. The app is how you see it and set it. IN THE APP • Every line into the building, whether it is carrying your traffic right now, and how it is doing • Live traffic, and the last hour, day or week • A speed test on any line, run by the router itself rather than by your phone, so you measure the line and not your wifi • Network Health Test: your router and every line, tested from anywhere. On your own network it tests the WiFi too • A nightly speed test on every line, so the day something changed is a point on a chart instead of an argument • The devices on your network, what they are, and whether they are really there • A private connection back to your own network from anywhere • Which line is primary and which is backup, chosen by you • A message when your internet moves, and another when it comes back • Nate, a built-in assistant that answers questions about your router in plain language NO SMART.ROUTER? WIFI TEST No account and no smart.router needed. In about 30 seconds the app tells you in plain words whether a slow connection is your WiFi or your internet line. • Phone to router and phone to internet, measured side by side • Whether large data gets through • Whether the connection is slow • A result you can share with whoever supports you WHAT IT TELLS YOU PLAINLY A line that keeps dropping is held off until it is steady, and the app says so in words: what happened, and what is usually behind it. You should not have to read a routing table to find out that a cable is failing. WHAT YOU NEED For the WiFi Test: nothing. For everything else: a supported router, managed by smart.router. The app is the companion to that service, so it shows your own routers and nothing else. Speeds and connections shown in the App Store images are examples. The app is free and there is nothing to buy in it. Sign in with Apple or Google. You can delete your account in the app. No advertising. We do not sell your data, and we do not read the contents of your traffic. What we collect and why is at smartrouter.com/privacy.html.

Screenshots

meter.me installer3 screens
smart.router4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: smart.router at daily against meter.me installer's every 3 weeks. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

meter.me installer ships an update every 3 weeks, smart.router daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
meter.me installer versus smart.router: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametermeter.me installersmart.router
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLamarr, Inc.Valley Internet

In-app purchases

None

meter.me installer

No in-app purchases

None

smart.router

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is meter.me installer free?
meter.me installer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is smart.router free?
smart.router is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do meter.me installer or smart.router have ads?
Neither meter.me installer nor smart.router shows ads.
Which is updated more often, meter.me installer or smart.router?
meter.me installer ships an update every 3 weeks, and smart.router daily. Most recently, meter.me installer was updated on November 4, 2026 and smart.router on October 31, 2026.

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