Olarm vs Fluss Original
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
Fluss Original
Transform your iPhone into a smart key for your garage, gate, or office parking. This app enables secure access control for residential complexes and businesses, allowing easy guest entry and exit tracking without compromising personal data.
- iPhone as a smart key
- Garage and gate access control
- Office parking management
- Guest invitation system
- Access tracking for security
- Secure data handling
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Fluss turns your iPhone into a key that can open your garage, your gate, your door or even the parking at your office. Businesses can use Fluss to control access to parking, and allow visitors to enter the building without having to fill out a form, or get their parking ticket stamped. Control access at your residential complex, and allow users to invite guests - and security can track who enters or exits - without the risk of personal details being stolen or sold.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Olarm at 32 against Fluss Original's 1. Olarm also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Fluss Original's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Olarm against 4.0 for Fluss Original. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olarm has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 54% and 55% positive.
Olarm ships an update every 3 weeks, Fluss Original every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | Fluss Original |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (32 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | Fluss Technologies (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Olarm
Fluss Original
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Fluss Original
No in-app purchases
