OptiExpert™ vs Smart Optometry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OptiExpert™
This app assists eye care professionals in managing contact lens wearers. It offers tools for prescription calculation, axial length estimation, cost comparison, and grading contact lens complications with visual aids. It also supports patient education and secure record-keeping.
- Prescription Calculator
- Axial Length Estimator
- Cost Comparison Calculator
- Efron Grading Scale
- Patient Image Storage
- Multilingual Support
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OptiExpert™ is a free, multifunctional and multilingual app which has been designed to help eye care professionals deliver the best possible service to their patients who are contact lens wearers. Prescription Calculator Makes the fitting process for patients simpler and more efficient. Quickly calculate and evaluate myopic, hyperopic, astigmatic and presbyopic prescriptions, select lenses and save chair time. ToriTrack™ Accurately calculates rotation-adjusted next-lens options and provides a reliable, precise recommendation so you can fine-tune/refine each toric fit. Designed to be simple to use, it makes over-refractions easy, helping you quickly get patients into their optimal toric lens. Axial Length Estimator Can be used to help eye care professionals better understand the significance of ocular axial lengths. Cost Comparison Calculator This function clearly shows your patients the cost of upgrading their lenses. By simply selecting details from the dropdowns and adding the retail value of the products being compared by the eye care professionals, the calculator will demonstrate the difference in cost per wear, cost per week and cost per month. Efron Grading Scale Provides a simple reference for grading the severity of contact lens complications; aiding tissue change comparisons and helping patients understand the importance of their practitioner’s recommendations. Based on the traditional ‘Efron Grading Scale’, the app converts this information into an easy-to-use digital tool, which is always on-hand. It allows practitioners to grade patients against 16 sets of images and covers the key anterior ocular complications of contact lens wear. The conditions are illustrated in five stages of increasing severity from 0–4, with traffic light colour banding from green (normal) to red (severe), providing a straightforward and efficient aid for the optical professional. Available in 17 languages, OptiExpert™ enables practitioners to control what is shown to the patient so they only see the conditions and severity that is relevant to them. A visual representation of their condition also helps patients understand the importance of their ECP’s recommendations, such as upgrading to a silicone hydrogel contact lens to improve clinical signs of hypoxia or the importance of adhering to contact lens wearing schedules. Additional benefits of the app include the ability to securely store images of the patient’s eye condition - facilitating easy comparison to other images on the scale to aid accurate grading. Practitioners are able to add their own comments following each patient evaluation, allowing a comprehensive record to be compiled of each individual’s condition and any treatment prescribed. OptiExpert™ is an educational tool. Eye care professionals may choose to use the app as part of their patient evaluation. OptiExpert™ is not intended as and does not constitute medical or optometric advice and eye care professionals should rely on their own expertise.
Smart Optometry
This app offers eye care professionals a suite of 15 interactive and precise digital eye exams for patient screening and testing. It simplifies the examination process with clear guidelines, fast execution, and automated calculations, supporting a more efficient and accurate diagnostic workflow.
- 15 interactive digital eye exams
- Automated calculation and diagnosis
- Multi-language support
- Vertex and visual acuity calculators
- Simple and fast user interface
- Precise and reliable results
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Smart Optometry is #1 choice for eye care professionals around the world! Give your patients’ best care with 15 FREE INTERACTIVE, PRECISE and SIMPLE eye exams in 9 languages. Join 100.000+ eye care specialists using Smart Optometry for eye examinations! Why should your customers undergo the same tests they always go through when they have their eyes tested? Why should this advanced industry stick with old and outdated practices? Smart Optometry includes 15 TESTS are available for FREE: – Colour Vision – Contrast – Visual Acuity – Worth Four Dot – Schober – OKN Stripes – Flourescin Light – Red Desaturation – Hirschberg – Accommodation – Duochrome – Aniseikonia – Amsler Grid – MEM Retinoscopy – Visual Acuity + To help you make your work simpler, we also included 2 CALCULATORS: – Vertex Conversion – Visual Acuity Conversion Because we know language barrier can be a problem, we localised our application to 11 LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Czech, Croatian and Slovenian! Want your language added? Let us know at: info@smart-optometry.com. Still not convinced? Read what sets us apart! Our solution is SIMPLE to use! Eye screening and testing shouldn’t be difficult and inconvenient for neither practitioner or customer! Smart Optometry application is very simple to use: just select the test, read through short guidelines for performing the test, execute it and let our application give you the basic diagnosis – final result or point you in the direction of possible problems that need more thorough examinations! Tests are FAST! While you are filling out paperwork for a patient, he or she can already test his or her eyesight with basic tests provided by Smart Optometry application. There is no logistics involved in performing the tests: just pick up your iPad and test-away! Results provided are PRECISE and reliable! Eye testing and screening often requires eye-care professionals to make calculations – giving the room for error. Eliminate this risk with precise calculations and interpretations done by our Smart Optometry application. Our tests are as precise if not more than the currently used on-the-wall testing equipment. All tests are INTERACTIVE and fun! Wouldn’t it be easier to let patients do the things you ask them, rather than try to explain what they see to you? Smart Optometry application is uniquely interactive: user presses buttons, draws on the screen and this way provides precise results – while having fun! Interactive handling with the Smart Optometry application also enables it to give you result interpretations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OptiExpert™ at none against Smart Optometry's 10. Smart Optometry's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (529 vs 7). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Smart Optometry sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. OptiExpert™ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart Optometry holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Optometry has 529 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of OptiExpert™'s written reviews are positive against 42% of Smart Optometry's.
OptiExpert™ ships an update every 3 months, Smart Optometry every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OptiExpert™ | Smart Optometry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 4.4 (529 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 42.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 529 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CooperVision, Inc. | Hundred Vision d.o.o. |
Customer experience
OptiExpert™
Smart Optometry
Bugs and requests
OptiExpert™
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Smart Optometry
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on startup
- App closes automatically after login
- App stops working after update
- Tests demand payment for Pro version
- Visual acuity unit converter plus button not working
Requested features
5 requests- Update visual acuity unit converter plus button
- Add inches option for measurement
- Provide explanations for test procedures and expected results
- Make Arabic language available
- Allow calibration of acuity test for different distances
In-app purchases
OptiExpert™
No in-app purchases
Smart Optometry
- PRO Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- PRO Yearly Subscription$22.991 Year
- Visual Acuity + Test$1.99
- Red Desaturation Test$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
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- Generous Tip!$4.99
- Smart Optometry PRO$9.99
- PRO Bundle$9.99
- Massive Tip!$9.99
- Amazing Tip!$14.99
Questions
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