Olarm vs Sunsynk 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
Sunsynk Connect
Monitor and control your solar inverter system remotely from anywhere. View real-time energy generation, battery status, and grid/load statistics. Adjust inverter settings, share system access with installers, and receive event alerts.
- Real-time system monitoring
- Remote inverter settings control
- Plant connection sharing
- Octopus Agile integration (UK)
- Detailed reporting and export
- Event and alert notifications
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Sunsynk Logger App has been developed to help you get the most out of your Sunsynk inverter. It has been specially tailored for the customers and installers. Using the Sunsynk Logger app with your Sunsynk inverter gives you complete remote control of your system from anywhere in the world! Real-time Monitoring – The Sunsynk Logger App lets you monitor multiple stats such as energy generation, battery status, grid, and load statistics. Change Settings Remotely - You can control all settings on the inverter from your mobile phone or PC without having to visit the inverter in person. Sharing Plant Connection - Customers can share their connection with their installer, permanently or temporarily. If they need help with any settings or configuration on their system, or if the installer needs to run any diagnostic checks, there is no need to visit site. The customer can share their plant connection and the installer can run any diagnostics / make any configuration changes from their own account. Octopus Agile Intergration - UK users can use the Live Price feature, using this you can look at the live prices provided by Octopus Energy and amend your charge and discharge prices with those figures in mind. Reporting – Users can generate detailed reports and export them to a PDF file. You can generate reports an that day, week, month, and year, or you can create custom reports. Events / Alerts – The Sunsynk Logger app will notify you if there are any events such as any warnings or faults or if there is any sudden loss in power.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Olarm at 3.9 against Sunsynk Connect's 2.1. Olarm also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 19%). Sunsynk Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Olarm holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 19% of Sunsynk Connect's.
Olarm ships an update every 3 weeks, Sunsynk Connect monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | Sunsynk Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (32 ratings) — better | 2.1 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 19.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| 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 | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | Sunsynk |
Customer experience
Olarm
Sunsynk Connect
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Sunsynk Connect
No in-app purchases
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