Comparison

SmartPanics vs Hola

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

Head to head
About

SmartPanics

This safety monitoring platform provides personal and group emergency alerts with location, photos, and audio. It includes features for panic buttons, virtual guardians, vehicle tracking, and security camera visualization.

Highlights
  • Panic buttons with location, sound, and images
  • Virtual guardian with route and time control
  • GPS tracking for vehicles
  • Security camera visualization and control
  • Family group tracking with geofencing
  • External Bluetooth SOS button support
Features
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SmartPanics is the ideal platform to provide you with personal monitoring safety, either individually or as a family or corporate group. The App is connected to a service provider with a monitoring center, in a private security company or in a public government organization and sends alerts with map location, photos, audios and video clips as evidence of the event. The app provides you: - Police, fire and medical panic buttonswith geographic position notification, soundand images of your emergency (MY ALARMS) - Management of your alarm panels including activations and deactivations (MY ACCOUNTS) - Virtual guardian that accompanies you from one place to another with route and time control. (ON MY WAY) - GPS Tracking of all your vehicles (MY VEHICLES) - Visualization and control of your video security cameras (MY CAMERAS) - Reception of all your events and alerts by PUSH messages (MY MESSAGES) - Tracking and monitoring of your family group, geofence entry and exit, monitoring of maximum speeds, inactivity and cell phone battery status (MY GROUP) - Programmable alerts report to the control center (MY ALERTS) - Cell phone location if it has been stolen, from the SmartPanics of another member of your group. - Use of an external bluetooth SOS button connected to the cell phone Your chosen service provider will give you a QR code to activate the APP in the monitoring center or you will be able to choose a provider if you do not have one yet, from the same APP. Once your APP is activated you will be able to add all the members of your group from there by creating your own QRs for them SmartPanicsis free, it has no extra charge note even the APP. To test the full functionality we recommend you to download TrySmartPanics For additional information please contact us at https://monitoringsoft.com/portfolio/smartpanics/

About

Hola

This app centralizes and manages visitor access for gated communities, buildings, and condominiums. It facilitates visitor notifications, QR code entry, and common space reservations. Users can also participate in surveys and report issues.

Highlights
  • Visitor notifications and confirmations
  • Invitation sending via contacts
  • QR code entry
  • Common space reservations
  • Community surveys and reports
Features
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Hola-C es una plataforma diseñada para simplificar la seguridad, la comunicación y la administración de barrios cerrados, edificios, condominios y complejos residenciales. Centralizá desde una sola aplicación la gestión de visitantes, accesos, comunicaciones y servicios de tu comunidad de forma simple, rápida y segura. Principales funcionalidades: • Aviso, autorización y confirmación de visitas. • Envío de invitaciones directamente desde tu agenda de contactos. • Acceso de visitantes mediante códigos QR. • Botón antipánico para situaciones de emergencia. • Notificaciones y avisos importantes en tiempo real. • Creación y gestión de listas de invitados para eventos. • Reserva de espacios y áreas comunes. • Participación en encuestas y comunicaciones de la comunidad. • Envío de denuncias, reclamos y sugerencias. • Herramientas para mejorar la comunicación entre residentes, administración y personal de seguridad. Todo lo que necesitás para estar conectado con tu comunidad, en un solo lugar.

Screenshots

SmartPanics4 screens
Hola3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SmartPanics at 50% against Hola's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartPanics ships an update monthly, Hola every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SmartPanics versus Hola: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartPanicsHola
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better3.8% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoftGuard Technologies LLCMartin Neuman

Customer experience

SmartPanics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Hola

Written reviews53 reviews
Positive3.8%
Neutral11.3%
Negative84.9%

In-app purchases

None

SmartPanics

No in-app purchases

None

Hola

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartPanics free?
SmartPanics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hola free?
Hola is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartPanics or Hola have ads?
Neither SmartPanics nor Hola shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartPanics or Hola?
SmartPanics ships an update monthly, and Hola every 2 months. Most recently, SmartPanics was updated on August 26, 2026 and Hola on September 17, 2026.

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