Comparison

Linked Senior vs Pulse Mobile Connect

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Pulse Mobile Connect

This application provides healthcare professionals with alarm and alert management, virtual workflows, and audio calling capabilities. It integrates with nurse call systems to streamline communication and task management within a secure healthcare network.

Highlights
  • Alarm and alert management
  • Virtual workflow initiation
  • Audio callback to origin
  • Audio calling to contacts
  • Virtual workflow button activation
  • RTLS device management
Features
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Austco Pulse Mobile Connect features alarm and alert management, virtual workflows, and audio calling for healthcare providers. - Manage alarms and alerts from the nurse call system - Initiate alarm workflows like Accept, Reject, Escalate, and Cancel - Audio callback to the point of origin - Audio calling to contacts directory - Activate and cancel virtual workflow buttons for any location - Pair and manage Austco RTLS devices Data safety is paramount: Pulse Mobile Connect uses a healthcare facility’s secure network and no patient or resident data is transmitted or stored. Create users within Austco’s Tacera nurse call system, or integrate with a facility’s Active Directory for authentication. NOTE: app requires an Austco nurse call system. About Austco Austco is an international provider of healthcare communication solutions, including nurse call systems, mobile communications, RTLS solutions, and clinical workflow.

Screenshots

Pulse Mobile Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pulse Mobile Connect at 3 against Linked Senior's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Linked Senior against 5.0 for Pulse Mobile Connect. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Linked Senior ships an update every 4 months, Pulse Mobile Connect every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Linked Senior versus Pulse Mobile Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinked SeniorPulse Mobile Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.5 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLinked Senior, Inc.Austco

Customer experience

Linked Senior

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pulse Mobile Connect

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Linked Senior

No in-app purchases

None

Pulse Mobile Connect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Linked Senior free?
Linked Senior is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulse Mobile Connect free?
Pulse Mobile Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Linked Senior or Pulse Mobile Connect?
Linked Senior and Pulse Mobile Connect are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Linked Senior or Pulse Mobile Connect have ads?
Neither Linked Senior nor Pulse Mobile Connect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Linked Senior or Pulse Mobile Connect?
Linked Senior ships an update every 4 months, and Pulse Mobile Connect every 3 months. Most recently, Linked Senior was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pulse Mobile Connect on November 3, 2026.

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