Secure Lox vs Openow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secure Lox
This application allows hotel guests to unlock their rooms using their mobile devices. It facilitates communication between the server and the hotel lock via Bluetooth 4.0, enabling keyless entry.
- Unlock hotel rooms with your phone
- Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity
- Receive welcome messages from server
- Send lock access data to indicated lock
- Keyless entry system
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ELOX mobile device door lock access APP is for E LOX hotel lock system customers to use mobile phone to open hotel room.The iPhone will received MSGs that issued by server phone. The iPhone holder need run ELOX mobile device APP and copy Welcome MSG into iPhone APP's indicated location and click confirm button to send lock access data to indicated lock with blue tooth 4.0 up. The lock received the data and process them for the lock opening.
Openow
This utility app allows you to use your smartphone as a digital key to unlock doors. It offers a convenient and intuitive way to manage access without physical keys.
- Smartphone as digital key
- Intuitive door opening
- Convenient access management
- Receive digital keys
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Openow™ is a mobile app that allows to receive keys in your smartphone, to enable the opening of doors in a very intuitive and convenient way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Secure Lox at 4.3 against Openow's 2.9. Secure Lox also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 15%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Secure Lox holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Secure Lox's written reviews are positive against 15% of Openow's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Secure Lox | Openow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | 2.9 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 14.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | E LOX INC | TESA Assa Abloy |
Customer experience
Secure Lox
Openow
In-app purchases
Secure Lox
No in-app purchases
Openow
No in-app purchases
