Linked Senior vs DS smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Linked Senior
This platform helps senior care facilities enhance resident engagement through personalized digital tools. It offers a variety of therapeutic applications like games, music therapy, and reminiscing to improve quality of life and reduce isolation. The system also provides staff with a dashboard for population health management and outcome tracking.
- Person-centered resident engagement
- Digital assessment and planning tools
- Population health management dashboard
- Evidence-based engagement applications
- Therapeutic interventions (games, music, reminiscing)
- Integration with EHR providers
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Linked Senior is a resident engagement platform for senior care -- aiming to make person centered engagement the standard experience of care. The solution empowers staff with a digital tool to assess, plan, implement and evaluate engagement for the entire resident population -- providing both a population health management dashboard and evidence based resident engagement applications (games, brain fitness, music therapy, reminiscing, etc.) It has been deployed in hundreds of assisted living, memory care communities and nursing homes to increase the quality of life of their residents and has a 96% renewal rate. A clinical study has validated its ability to increase social engagement, reduce isolation, depression, behaviors associated to dementia and medication use in senior care. It is used by family and staff to engage residents with personal experiences such as games, brain fitness, music therapy, reminiscing and other therapeutic interventions. The modules provide stimulation and meaningful engagement, no matter the cognitive ability. It is person-centered and totally tailored to the individual. The solution helps drive compliance, better outcomes, increase client and family satisfaction and reduces staff burden. It also integrates with EHR providers such as PointClickCare to augment your clinical workflow around resident engagement.
DS smart
This app facilitates the secure capture and transmission of resident health data from medical devices directly to electronic medical records (EMRs) within Long-Term Care facilities. It streamlines the process for nurses and CNAs to log readings and update patient charts efficiently.
- Capture health data instantly
- Protect patient information
- Connect data to EMRs
- Care automation
- Log readings from medical devices
- Seamlessly send data to charts
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Instantly capture, protect and connect health data to an EMR with care automation powered by the patented DS smart® app. This intuitive technology built for Long-Term Care lets nurses or CNAs securely log in, retrieve resident readings from medical devices and seamlessly send them to specific charts within EMRs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DS smart at every 5 weeks against Linked Senior's every 4 months. DS smart also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1). Linked Senior's advantage is iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Linked Senior against 5.0 for DS smart. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DS smart has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Linked Senior ships an update every 4 months, DS smart every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Linked Senior | DS smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linked Senior, Inc. | Direct Supply, Inc. |
Customer experience
Linked Senior
DS smart
In-app purchases
Linked Senior
No in-app purchases
DS smart
No in-app purchases
