Olarm vs SmartMatter
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
SmartMatter
Manage property finances and enhance tenant-landlord communication. This app streamlines property payments, offering full cost transparency and usage tracking. Experience a modern, convenient approach to property industry billing.
- Property payment management
- Cost transparency
- Usage tracking
- Convergent billing platform
- Tenant-landlord relationship improvement
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Experience the future of property finances and improve your tenant-landlord relationship with SmartMatter. Our app allows you to take care of all of your property payments with a few taps on your smartphone, providing full transparency of costs and the ability to track your usage. SmartMatter allows you to take advantage of the modern and convenient way to handle payments and the benefits of a convergent billing platform designed specifically for the property industry. Make payments and track your usage with SmartMatter today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Olarm at 54% against SmartMatter's 0%. 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | SmartMatter |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | SmartMatter |
Customer experience
Olarm
SmartMatter
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
SmartMatter
No in-app purchases
