Pusher vs. SmartFocus, now part of Actito

Pusher

Pusher

11 Reviews and Ratings

SmartFocus, now part of Actito

SmartFocus, now part of Actito

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pusher	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	London-based Pusher supports mobile application development with pub/sub messaging and "presence channel" which supports discovery of live users of applications as well as messaging or chat room capabilities to applications, and finally location services as well (e.g. geolocation).	$49 per month
SmartFocus, now part of Actito	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	SmartFocus offers real-time interaction management software. Their messaging cloud marketing platform encompasses email, social, mobile and analytics capabilities. Founded in 1999 as EmailVision, SmartFocus has grown to serve customers across the globe; SmartFocus boasts over 2,500 customers of its Message Cloud, including HP, Mercedes-Benz, and others. It's features are relatively broad and encompassing, though central to it is the ability to build and launch email marketing campaigns. It also…	N/A

Pricing

Pusher

SmartFocus, now part of Actito

Editions & Modules

Startup: $49
per month
Pro: $99
per month
Business: $299
per month
Premium: $499
per month
Growth: $699
per month
Plus: $899
per month
Growth Plus: 1,199
per month
Sandbox: Free

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Pusher	SmartFocus, now part of Actito
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Pusher	SmartFocus, now part of Actito

Best Alternatives
	Pusher	SmartFocus, now part of Actito
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User Ratings
	Pusher	SmartFocus, now part of Actito
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (4 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Pusher	SmartFocus, now part of Actito
Likelihood to Recommend	Pusher As I told you earlier, if you just want to send regular push notifications to the app users, then Pusher shall not be your first choice. However, if you wish to make the app a little more interactive by making live changes in the app using Pusher and sending your user's real-time notifications, then you should definitely try it. AS Ashok Saini Software Engineer Read full review	Actito Before we used SmartFocus we had a simple bespoke drag and drop builder, where we could add as many "templates" as we wanted. In SmartFocus, the drag and drop builder is smoother and better, but you can't add your own templates. If you are happy with the provided templates, then building newsletters will be really good experience. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Pusher Pusher allows live changes in the UI using push requests. We can also integrate it with the PHP source code. They offer 99.99% uptime, so we can trust on their services. Pusher works well along with the Flutter codebase, so we do not have to modify it much to work on cross-platforms. Incentivized LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Read full review	Actito Push newsletters to customers Managing campaigns Drag and drop builder Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Pusher Not a good support system. Poor documentation. Date transmission encryption issues. Incentivized DS Dharmi Singh Jr. App Developer Read full review	Actito Drag and drop builder 2-factor authentication Internal integration (the system is too big for an average user what make it hard to use sometimes) Image gallery reliability Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Pusher No answers on this topic	Actito We need a service where we can have support when necessary and a system that will handle a high amount of campaigns, with the functionality where even a junior member of the team can create a campaign from assets provided by the graphic team. SmartFocus has that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Pusher We had over ten thousand customer orders go through over the course of a year with no problems with this API There was very minimal support for this API which allowed us to focus on other priorities. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Actito By using Smart Focus we massively cut the cost of creating a new e-mail campaign On the other hand, the cost of SmartFocus is much higher than a competitor Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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