Smart vs T9 Dialer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart
This app helps manage multiple calling cards for cost-effective long-distance calls. It can automatically dial access numbers and PINs, or route calls through a VOIP device. Premium offers an ad-free experience and support for more calling cards.
- Manage multiple calling cards
- Save on long-distance calls
- Automatic access number and PIN dialing
- VOIP device integration
- Call from address book or recent calls
- Premium upgrade for ad-free experience
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SmartDial can be setup to manage multiple calling cards to save on long distance calling. After the setup, all you have to do is dial your destination number either from your address book or your recently called list. If setup properly, SmartDial will route the call by calling the access number and entering the PIN if any. Email us if you need help with the setup. If you have a VOIP device such as Fritz.box by AVM, you can call International at low rates by setting up SmartDial to call your VOIP device and then dial the destination number. You can upgrade to Premium to disable ads, enjoy the cleaner user interface and add more than one calling card. If it doesn't work on your phone, please email us at support@iruvar.net to let us help you. Know more about SmartDial at www.iruvar.net or Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GetSmartDial to suggest new features, critique or just comment.
T9 Dialer
This app enhances your phone's dialer with T9 keyboard functionality, allowing for quick contact searching across multiple alphabets. It offers features like speed dial, contact merging, and extensive theme customization for a personalized experience. All data is stored locally for privacy and offline use.
- T9 keyboard speed dial
- Multi-alphabet character search
- Contact merging and management
- Quick access to favorites and recents
- Export contacts as VCF
- Customizable themes and appearance
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Features: Speed dial with T9 keyboard capabilities that searches even foreign characters (including Slovenian, Cyrillic, Russian, Greek, Japanese and more...) Quick Access to Favorites and Recents, they are all on one screen. Merge similar contacts and manage them. Merge search will find similar contacts even if they are written in entirely different alphabet. Find contacts and easily call, message, or manage (edit, merge, share or delete) them with a simple swipe. Export your contacts as vcf to use with other devices. Theme support. Customize keyboard look and size. Customize the App theme color, font size, dial pad background color, buttons style, font size, and more, and save your style in Themes. Add up to three free themes, which you can easily share with other users of the app. Get more theme storage for free by watching ads. App works completely offline. All your data is safely stored on your device and it isn't sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart at 4.0 against T9 Dialer's 2.7. Smart also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 0%). T9 Dialer's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Smart sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and T9 Dialer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Smart's written reviews are positive against 0% of T9 Dialer's.
Smart ships an update every 12 months, T9 Dialer every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart | T9 Dialer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Iruvar LLC | Adamantus DOO |
Customer experience
Smart
T9 Dialer
In-app purchases
Smart
- Premium Access$1.99
T9 Dialer
- Increase Themes Limit by 10$0.99
- Increase Themes Limit by 50$4.99
- Remove limit$9.99
