Olarm vs Load Shedding
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
Load Shedding
Stay informed about power outage schedules in Zambia. This application provides official information directly from ZESCO to help you plan accordingly.
- Load shedding schedule updates
- Official ZESCO information
- Zambia-specific
- Planning tool
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The load shedding app helps you stay abreast with the load shedding schedule in Zambia. It is based on official schedule from ZESCO.
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Verdict
Olarm and Load Shedding both sit at 3.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Load Shedding's written reviews are positive against 54% of Olarm's. Load Shedding also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). Olarm's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 6). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Olarm against 4.0 for Load Shedding. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olarm has 32 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 100% of Load Shedding's.
| Parameter | Olarm | Load Shedding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (32 ratings) | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | Apptorney Ltd |
Customer experience
Olarm
Load Shedding
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Load Shedding
No in-app purchases
