Comparison

Doorlock vs CareLink

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Doorlock

Features
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COMMAX์—์„œ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋„์–ด๋ก ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์šฉ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์˜ ๋ธ”๋ฃจํˆฌ์Šค ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ(BLE, Bluetooth LE)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ฆ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ธ์ฆ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์™ธ์šฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์„ ์†Œ์ง€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ฆ๋˜์–ด ๋ฌธ์ด ์—ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€ข ์ œ๊ณต ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ 1. ๋“ฑ๋ก : ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ๊ณผ COMMAX ๋„์–ด๋ก ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— eKey๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ €์žฅ 2. ์ธ์ฆ : ๋„์–ด๋ก ํ„ฐ์น˜๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์—ด๊ธฐ ๋™์ž‘์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ 3. ์‚ญ์ œ : ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ๊ณผ COMMAX ๋„์–ด๋ก ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์ €์žฅ๋œ eKey๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ญ์ œ - BLE ํ†ต์‹  - iPhone 4S, iOS๋ฒ„์ „ 7.0์ด์ƒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

About

CareLink

This app connects adult children with their elderly parents to provide remote assistance. It allows for real-time screen sharing and voice calls, enabling users to guide parents through smartphone tasks with visual annotations. Designed with seniors in mind, it prioritizes ease of use and privacy.

Highlights
  • Real-time screen sharing
  • Voice call integration
  • On-screen drawing tools
  • Easy-to-use interface for seniors
  • Parental consent required for sharing
  • No data storage or recording
Features
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Help your parents use their phone, even when you live far away. They tap one button. Your phone rings like a phone call. You answer, see their screen, and show them what to do. CareLink is made for older parents and the adult children who help them. How it works 1. Connect once with a 6-digit family code. 2. When they get stuck, they tap "Ask for help" on the home screen. 3. Your phone rings, even if CareLink is closed. 4. Answer, and you can talk and look at their screen together. What you can do - Talk by voice while you help - See their screen live, so you know exactly what they are looking at - Draw on their screen to point things out, then undo or erase it (drawing depends on the phone the person you help uses) - Connect with up to two people you help Privacy and safety come first - You can only look at their screen. You cannot tap or type on their phone. - Screen sharing starts only after they say yes, and they are asked every time. - They can stop sharing at any time. - Nothing is recorded or stored. The call and the screen are sent live and never saved on our servers. - Password screens are hidden while they share. Made for older parents - Large buttons and simple screens - One button to ask for help, and nothing else to learn - Works on Wi-Fi or mobile data - Available in English, Korean, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada Points Calls with screen sharing use points. - Sign-up points for helpers: from November 19, 2026, new sign-ups get 1,000 free points (two 10-minute calls) to use within 30 days; those who signed up earlier get 2,000 (four calls) - 500 points for the first 10 minutes of a call - 150 points for each minute after that - Only the helper buys and uses points. The person you help never pays. - During a call you can see your points and the time you have left. - Refunds for iPhone purchases are decided by Apple. Go to Settings > Purchases and refunds and tap [Go to Apple]. Free points are not refundable. Questions? Open Settings and tap Contact us. We read every message and reply. Requires iOS 15 or later.

Screenshots

Doorlock2 screens
CareLink4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doorlock at none against CareLink's 4. Doorlock also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). CareLink's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. CareLink sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Doorlock asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doorlock ships an update every 6 months, CareLink every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
Doorlock versus CareLink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoorlockCareLink
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOMMAXITERAON

In-app purchases

None

Doorlock

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

CareLink

One-time4
  • 2,000 ํฌ์ธํŠธ$1.59
  • 5,000 ํฌ์ธํŠธ$3.99
  • 10,000 ํฌ์ธํŠธ$7.99
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  • 50,000 ํฌ์ธํŠธ$39.99

Questions

Is Doorlock free?
Doorlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CareLink free?
CareLink is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Doorlock or CareLink have ads?
CareLink shows ads; Doorlock does not.
Which is updated more often, Doorlock or CareLink?
Doorlock ships an update every 6 months, and CareLink every 2 days. Most recently, Doorlock was updated on November 2, 2026 and CareLink on November 6, 2026.

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