Olarm vs PEC Utility Management
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
PEC Utility Management
This app provides real-time management of utility equipment, tariffs, and consumption for accurate billing and reporting. It helps customers with daily energy management through a customized smart metering application and offers maintenance services.
- Real-time utility management
- Consumption and behavior analysis
- Billing and reporting
- Smart metering application
- Maintenance reports
- Energy efficiency certifications
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We deliver real time management of utility equipment, tariffs, consumption and behaviour to ensure accuracy and anticipation of optimal utility applications. Billing and reporting of utility consumption information is generated in a specialised software environment. Our customised smart metering application will assist you the customer in your day to day energy management. PEC offers utility management to the retail, commercial, industrial and residential segments in the property industry. A versatile service driven by efficiency that provides maintenance reports, infrared scans, meter verifications and general electrical and plumbing maintenance. Comprehensive energy management audits, assess environments and provide energy efficiency certifications.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Olarm at 54% against PEC Utility Management's 0%. Olarm also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 1). PEC Utility Management's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On price, update cadence, 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.
PEC Utility Management holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olarm has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 0% of PEC Utility Management'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, PEC Utility Management every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | PEC Utility Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (31 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | SPAZA DOT TECH (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Olarm
PEC Utility Management
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
PEC Utility Management
No in-app purchases
