Olarm vs Connex Connect
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
Connex Connect
Remotely manage and monitor your smart tech devices from anywhere. Receive real-time alerts, stream live video, and keep watch over your home and family.
- Add and configure smart devices
- Remote device management
- Real-time alerts
- Live video streaming
- Video recording
- Global remote access
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Connex Connect Smart App lets you add, configure, monitor and share all your Connex Connect Smart Tech devices. Via the App on your mobile phone you can remotely manage and view your connected devices from anywhere in the world Receive real time alerts, stream and record live video and keep watch over your Home and Family.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Olarm at 54% against Connex Connect's 0%. Olarm also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). Connex Connect's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
Connex Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 0% of Connex Connect'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, Connex Connect every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | Connex Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (32 ratings) | 4.4 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 182 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | SMD Technologies Pty LTD |
Customer experience
Olarm
Connex Connect
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Connex Connect
No in-app purchases
