Comparison

SMRT Operations Manager vs ePhoneGo2

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

Head to head
About

SMRT Operations Manager

This app streamlines multifamily community management by integrating work orders, inspections, and preventive maintenance. It enhances team efficiency and resident satisfaction through improved communication and operational insights.

Highlights
  • Integrated work orders, inspections, and maintenance
  • Streamlined resident communication
  • Real-time operational insights
  • Empowers leasing and maintenance teams
  • Boosts resident loyalty
Features
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SMRT Operations Manager is the companion app to the SmartRent Work Management and Answer Automation platforms. SmartRent’s Smart Operations Solutions product suite provides software for building and managing multifamily communities. We believe that Great Teams = Great Communities, so we’re empowering leasing, resident service and maintenance team members with easy-to-use solutions to deliver exceptional service. Our award-winning Smart Operations platform helps: • Make Best Practices Common Practice - By combining work orders, inspections and preventive maintenance into one solution. • Boost Resident Loyalty – With status updates and streamlined communications, residents stay in-the-know. • Deliver Insights for Better Decision Making – Through a verified view into the actions that unlock portfolio value.

About

ePhoneGo2

This app allows employees to use their personal mobile devices for business calls, maintaining a single office number and voicemail. It ensures business calls display your office caller ID and provides access to corporate contacts, even when on the go.

Highlights
  • Receive office calls on mobile
  • Make business calls with office caller ID
  • Video calls with other users
  • Corporate directory access
  • Call transfer and recording
  • Voicemail notifications
Features
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To stay competitive, an organization’s high-performing employees need flexibility, to maximize their productivity without being tied to a desk. Plus, as a business, you must be able to maintain and protect sensitive company data while ensuring that your employees are fully accessible even while on the road. Employees often use personal devices for business transactions while on the road, which the company has no visibility of. These road warriors need a viable solution that gives them the ability to use their personal phones yet remain connected to the corporate communication system, enabling them to leverage business information with every call. In addition, businesses frequently lose components of the client interaction history when customers are contacted outside of their corporate phone system. Businesses need a solution that offers insight into all employee / client interactions, even those conducted while their employees were on the road. The solution is ESI ePhoneGO2™. Having the ePhoneGO2™ application on the iOS smartphone presents a user experience that mirrors the functionality of the ESI desktop phone, allowing employees who are “on-the-go” to make and receive business calls from anywhere using their personal devices, while still maintaining a single office phone number and voice mail. This also eliminates the need to publish anyone’s private mobile number to clients! Features – Receive calls on your Mobile device which were placed to your Office phone number – Make outgoing business calls remotely which appear to have been placed from your office – Calls made with ePhoneGO2™ will broadcast your office Caller ID, (not your personal phone number). – Establish one-to-one Video calls with other ePhoneGO2™ users. – Established voice-calls can also be upgraded to Video calls with other ePhoneGO2™ users. – View the Corporate directory with availability status of your contacts. – Create a list of frequently called users from the company directory or your phone’s personal contacts. – Established messaging sessions (SMS or IM). – Transfer calls (blind or supervised) as you would do from your desk. – Record calls from your mobile phone. – Turning Do-Not-Disturb ON or OFF for the mobile device. This allows you to pause alerting while you have your desk phone available). – Call routing options fully sync with your platform – Notification of new voicemail messages. – Make calls over WiFi or 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G, regular data rates apply IMPORTANT ESI ePhoneGO2™ for iOS requires an active account on the ESI Cloud PBX™ **Voice quality is highly dependent upon your WiFi or 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G network bandwidth** Warning for 3G / 4G / LTE Usage Some mobile carriers prohibit or restrict the use of VoIP calls over their networks and may interfere with, block, or institute fees for calls made over their 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G data networks. Check the terms of your cell phone agreement to determine the rules for your carrier. ESI cannot guarantee service and is not responsible for any charges or fees assessed in connection with usage of ESI ePhoneGO2™ on your mobile device. If you experience any issues please open a ticket via the ESI Support site at http://support.esi-estech.com or contact ESI Technical Support at 800-850-2151.

Screenshots

SMRT Operations Manager4 screens
ePhoneGo24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ePhoneGo2 at 4.3 against SMRT Operations Manager's 3.1. ePhoneGo2 also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 223). SMRT Operations Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ePhoneGo2 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ePhoneGo2 has 1.1K ratings behind it against 223, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of SMRT Operations Manager's written reviews are positive against 21% of ePhoneGo2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SMRT Operations Manager ships an update every 3 weeks, ePhoneGo2 every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SMRT Operations Manager versus ePhoneGo2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSMRT Operations ManagerePhoneGo2
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (223 ratings)4.3 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.5% of reviews — better21.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2231.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size181 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSightPlanEstech Systems, Inc. (ESI)

Customer experience

SMRT Operations Manager

All ratings223 ratings
Positive48.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive26.5%
Neutral9.6%
Negative63.9%

ePhoneGo2

All ratings1,122 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive21.4%
Neutral21.4%
Negative57.1%

User reviews

SMRT Operations Manager

From 223 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and sleek user interface design
  • 🚀 Efficient work order organization and management
  • 📱 Easy task creation with photo capture
  • 🔄 Good integration with other software systems
  • 💬 Facilitates communication between teams and residents

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Constant crashes and freezing, especially during photo uploads
  • 🔄 Persistent syncing issues between app and web version
  • ⏱️ Extremely slow performance and lag
  • 🔐 Frequent unexpected logouts requiring re-authentication
  • 📵 App stops updating without manual reinstallation

ePhoneGo2

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Rock solid
  • 👍 Seamless integration with iPhone
  • 👍 Ability to take work calls and text without revealing personal number

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Texts almost never come through unless app is open
  • 🐛 Unreliable notifications for texts
  • 🐛 Issues sending texts with media
  • 🐛 Transfer calls don't work well
  • 🐛 Audio quality is terrible

Bugs and requests

SMRT Operations Manager

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App requires daily or every-other-day reinstallation to function
  • Tasks fail to sync or appear in assignee lists
  • Assignee list takes 45+ seconds to load
  • App freezes when taking photos during inspections
  • Photos and comments disappear or fail to sync
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  • Closed tasks reappear unexpectedly
  • Activity section stuck in infinite loading loop
  • Text input freezes and skips letters while typing
  • Grey loading screen that never resolves without restart
  • Work orders fail to load or appear hours late
  • Resident list crashes the app when selected
  • App logs out when phone screen turns off
  • Syncing fails even on strong WiFi connections
  • Work order status not updating in real-time across devices
  • Push notifications for new tasks don't trigger app updates

Requested features

7 requests
  • Refresh button or pull-to-refresh functionality
  • Apple Watch compatibility
  • Persistent login sessions without constant re-authentication
  • Ability to add multiple photos to tasks after creation
  • Better do-not-disturb notification handling
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  • Improved activity section loading
  • Offline mode capability

ePhoneGo2

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Text messages section disappeared
  • Desktop version still does not properly work
  • Dropped calls

Requested features

2 requests
  • Clearer instructions on how to receive calls after hours
  • More reliable text notifications

In-app purchases

None

SMRT Operations Manager

No in-app purchases

None

ePhoneGo2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SMRT Operations Manager free?
SMRT Operations Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ePhoneGo2 free?
ePhoneGo2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SMRT Operations Manager or ePhoneGo2?
ePhoneGo2 is rated higher. SMRT Operations Manager averages 3.1 out of 5 from 223 ratings, while ePhoneGo2 averages 4.3 from 1.1K ratings.
Do SMRT Operations Manager or ePhoneGo2 have ads?
Neither SMRT Operations Manager nor ePhoneGo2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SMRT Operations Manager or ePhoneGo2?
SMRT Operations Manager ships an update every 3 weeks, and ePhoneGo2 every 4 months. Most recently, SMRT Operations Manager was updated on September 22, 2026 and ePhoneGo2 on September 21, 2026.

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