Olarm vs Ontec Home
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
Ontec Home
Monitor household water consumption with real-time data, target setting, and leak detection. Purchase prepaid electricity from anywhere and track your energy spending history with insightful graphs.
- Monitor household water consumption
- Set daily water usage targets
- Receive leak detection notifications
- Purchase prepaid electricity
- View electricity purchase history
- Alias multiple households
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Ontec HOME is a smart monitoring application that allows users to monitor their household water consumption through the GaugeIT solution as well as purchase prepaid electricity. Through Ontec Home users can monitor more than one household and can provide a friendly alias for the various houses being monitored. With the GaugeIT solution users can monitor their household water consumption and set daily targets which they do not want to exceed. GaugeIT will send notifications if the user is nearing their consumption target and will also send a notification once the target has been reached. Leak detection has also been included in GaugeIT. Users are notified of possible leaks that has been detected which they can then investigate and fix. The prepaid purchases function allows users to buy electricity online from anywhere is the world and from the comfort of our own house. A history of previous purchases are stored, giving the user insight into their energy purchasing patterns which is depicted on a graph. Use Ontec Home to gain insights into your household water and electricity usage and purchases today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Olarm at 54% against Ontec Home's 0%. Ontec Home's advantage is iOS requirement (10.1 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
| Parameter | Olarm | Ontec Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 10.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | Ontec Systems (PTY) Ltd |
Customer experience
Olarm
Ontec Home
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Ontec Home
No in-app purchases









