Olarm vs Pothole Patrol
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
Pothole Patrol
Report potholes with a single click to help improve road safety. This app allows users to easily log pothole locations, track repair progress, and view a history of reported issues. It aims to make roads safer for everyone.
- Log potholes with one click
- Geo-location for precise reporting
- Take photos of potholes
- Real-time repair progress notifications
- View list of logged potholes and their status
- Simple registration process
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Pothole Patrol, one click away for you to successfully log a pothole for repair: Discovery and Avis have partnered together with the City of Johannesburg and the JRA to fix potholes on the road. To accomplish this amazing mandate, an app has been developed which empowers road users to report pothole and save lives. At a click of a button, the app allows road users to report potholes in their area. It is developed by Discovery and Avis to make the roads safer for all road users. The user-friendly features enable road users to take a picture of the pothole, record the location and notify the Pothole Patrol of potholes. Application features: Geo-location functionality The app allows you to log a pothole using Google Maps to locate the exact position (street name and number) of the pothole. Repair progress notification The road user will be notified when the pothole is repaired in real-time. List of potholes logged Road users have site of all the potholes they have logged and the progress of which potholes are scheduled for repairs and those that have been repaired successfully. User notes: Simple registration process All you need is a phone and internet connection to log the pothole.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Olarm at 3.9 against Pothole Patrol's 3.5. Olarm also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 33%) and ratings volume (32 vs 4). 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.
Olarm holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Olarm has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Olarm's written reviews are positive against 33% of Pothole Patrol's.
Olarm ships an update every 3 weeks, Pothole Patrol every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Olarm | Pothole Patrol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (32 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olarm (Pty) Ltd | UMSEBENZI PATROL PTY LTD |
Customer experience
Olarm
Pothole Patrol
In-app purchases
Olarm
No in-app purchases
Pothole Patrol
No in-app purchases









