Olarm vs ArmME Security App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Olarm
Control and manage your home alarm system directly from your smartphone. This app allows you to arm, disarm, and monitor your system in real-time, receive notifications, and manage users. It also offers features like silent panic and gate control.
- Arm, Disarm, Sleep, Stay modes
- Arming reminders
- Real-time zone activity log
- Silent Panic
- Cancel Responder
- User management
- Gate and light control
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This is the companion app to the Olarm device. Plug and play into your existing home alarm system and you can control and manage your home alarm system from your phone. Please visit our website for more information. Features: - Set your alarm system to Arm, Disarm, Sleep or Stay - Set reminders to arm your system - Real-time zone activity log and notifications - Silent Panic - Cancel Responder - User management - Monitor electric fence - Control gates and lights
ArmME Security App
Control and monitor your home or business alarm system remotely. Arm, disarm, and receive alerts for triggered alarms. Manage gates, garage doors, lights, and other connected devices from anywhere.
- Remote arm/disarm/stay
- Triggered alarm alerts
- Gate/garage door control
- Lights/sprinkler control
- AC power status
- Customizable area names
- Event log access
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Monitor and control your alarm system from anywhere in the world when using a Rhino alarm panel or a Falcon communicator with selected third-party alarm panels. The ArmME app allows you to be in control and aware of whatever is happening at your home or business even when you’re not there. With the ArmME app, you are easily able to: - Arm, disarm or stay arm different areas of your home as set up by the technician - Receive alerts when the alarm is triggered and know where on your property the intrusion occurred - Check whether your alarm system is armed or not - Open or close your gate or garage door and switch your lights, sprinklers and pool pump on or off - See if there is AC power or not at your place - Identify the different areas or partitions of your home by uploading photos and customising area and zone names - Access a history of events via the event log - Bypass specific zones, when in use, to prevent triggering an alarm PLEASE NOTE: To access the above features and more you have to be using a Rhino 68, 816, 232 or 832 alarm panel or a Falcon communicator which is connected via the serial port to one of these third-party panels: - IDS X-Series & IDS805 - Texecom Premier 412, 816 & 832 - Paradox MG & SP series - DSC PowerSeries and PowerSeries Neo - Risco LightSYS 2 - Orisec ZP-10, 20, 40, & 100 - Hikvision AX Pro Terms & Conditions apply.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Olarm at none against ArmME Security App's shown. Olarm also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 24%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). ArmME Security App's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.8). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ArmME Security App holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 50 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 24% of ArmME Security App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Olarm ships an update every 3 weeks, ArmME Security App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and July 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | ArmME Security App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (31 ratings) | 4.1 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 24.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | Amecor (Pty) Ltd |
Customer experience
Olarm
ArmME Security App
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
ArmME Security App
No in-app purchases









