Airship vs. Smartlead

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airship
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The Airship Experience Platform provides an end-to-end solution for unifying experiences across channels and capturing value across the entire customer lifecycle.N/A
Smartlead
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$32.50
per month billed annually
Pricing
AirshipSmartlead
Editions & Modules
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Sales Enablement - Basic Plan
$32.50
per month billed annually
Sales Enablement - Basic Plan
$39
per month
Smart Delivery - Growth
$49
per month
Sales Enablement - Pro Plan
$78.30
per month billed annually
Sales Enablement - Pro Plan
$94
per month
Sales Enablement - Custom Plan
$174
per month
Smart Delivery - Pro
$174
per month
Smart Delivery - Expert
$599
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AirshipSmartlead
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AirshipSmartlead
Considered Both Products
Airship
Chose Airship
They are the only Application/Push vendor we have used since I started w/ the company about 4 years ago. I believe we have sued them since 2016 or so.
Chose Airship
Airship allows for more uses for a better value and is more of a focused outreach for the parishioners, and much easier to use with mobile devises.
Chose Airship
We've tested a bunch of different CRM tools over the years and Airship has been a winner for its functionality, features, cost, and ability to integrate with other softwares that we use. It has been great for SMS and mobile in particular. It could certainly be a one stop shop …
Chose Airship
Airship have a very different set of features, we could not find an exact match of it.
Chose Airship
Easy user interface and seamless integration. Great Customer engagement
Chose Airship
Airship allows for more uses for a better value and is more of a focused outreach for the parishioners, and much easier to use with mobile devises.
Chose Airship
We use Sailthru for emails. We have not used them for pushes so I can't compare the two.
Chose Airship
The above mentioned products were evaluated for initial RFQ process however Airship was awarded for the robustness and ease of use, and its strategy aligns with Vodafone's App usage engagement
Chose Airship
Airship is superb in customer support against all others. Even though I feel CleverTap may be a better choice but probably will not be as easy as Airship when setting them up and operating it. As for MoEngage, the last experience I had was simply not good enough, but that was …
Chose Airship
I have also worked with Vibes, Salesforce, Pendo, and Swrve for mobile app marketing efforts, and I always come back to airship as delivering the best Push and In-App messaging capabilities. If you want a full service platform for Push and In-App messaging rather than …
Chose Airship
There was a time when we went off Urban Airship and went to Spreed. We were using Spreed's app, so there was much better integration on push notifications. The push notification took readers directly into the story. When we moved from Spreed to our own native app, we went back …
Smartlead
Features
AirshipSmartlead
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Airship
-
Ratings
Smartlead
9.2
Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
List management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Airship
-
Ratings
Smartlead
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Airship
-
Ratings
Smartlead
9.3
Ratings
13% above category average
Link Tracking00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Inbox Display00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Email Accessibility Tools00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AirshipSmartlead
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AirshipSmartlead
Likelihood to Recommend
Well-Suited for: 1. Mobile App Notifications: Ideal for targeted push notifications in apps. 2. Customer Segmentation: Effective for personalized marketing campaigns based on user data. 3. Event-Triggered Automation: Great for automated messaging based on user actions. 4. A/B Testing: Useful for optimizing campaign messages and strategies. Less Appropriate for: 1. Non-Mobile Channels: Less effective if the primary focus is on non-mobile communications like email or direct mail. 2. Basic Email Marketing: Other platforms might be better suited for simple, broad email campaigns without complex segmentation or personalization needs.
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If you're on a budget, it's great because it gets you a lot of leads for free on a ~$200 plan. So you don't have to worry about making or buying lists for your email outreach.
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Pros
  • Setting up the target audience within Airship using attributes is one of my favorites.
  • Airship has a very user-friendly interface with detailed documentation for self-help. I also enjoy the training sessions, articles and reports Airship organized as those are very insightful and useful.
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  • It's a good campaign management tool for cold outreach.
  • Email warmup has given me good result.
  • The unified inbox, which integrates all inboxes under one roof, is a time-saver and a tremendously important feature.
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Cons
  • The automated A/B testing winner selection and application should be added
  • The flexibility of message shape, specifically incorporating transparency so messages do not need to be a rectangular shape
  • Faster and more reliable servers around the globe
  • Making more detailed use cases and tutorials to be followed can simplify things for users
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  • The UI & UX is still not there with a lot of room for improvement.
  • Regular downtimes, complexity and bulking of the platform is an overkill.
  • It used to be very minimalistic but now it's just too much to handle.
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Usability
The interface takes a bit getting used to in order to know how to take advantage of everything. Some of the analytics that are available are particularly hard to find, so it's important to pay attention when customer support reviews everything, but everything I'd want and need in terms of Push and In-App messaging is all there.
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-1 point just for the UI/UX and over-engineering.
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Support Rating
I have not had to interact much with customer support as I have been able to find the vast majority of the answers I'm looking for within their documentation, which I very much appreciate because it saves me a lot of time. Customer support has been responsive and helpful for the most part during the couple of interactions I've had.
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Alternatives Considered
I have also worked with Vibes, Salesforce, Pendo, and Swrve for mobile app marketing efforts, and I always come back to airship as delivering the best Push and In-App messaging capabilities. If you want a full service platform for Push and In-App messaging rather than configuring these channels through something that is no cost such as Firebase, then i would recommend Airship.
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Return on Investment
  • The ROI has increased more than approx. 50% (exact details to be confirmed) based on cross-channel orchestration
  • Using push notifications alone, we have seen a huge increase in app engagement which was a challenge before to nudge users to get back to the App after initial download
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  • It has mostly a positive impact on its warm-up, which has ensured that our emails land in the inbox rather than spam.
  • I was able to get a 12% reply rate for one of the ICPs..
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