Ooma Smart Security vs eHomeLife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ooma Smart Security
Monitor and secure your home remotely with this app, sensors, and a communications hub. Receive instant alerts for detected activity, manage sensor status, and customize notification preferences. The system offers various modes for different alert scenarios and optional professional monitoring.
- Remote home monitoring
- Activity detection alerts
- Sensor status and logs
- Customizable notification preferences
- Home, Away, and Night modes
- Optional professional monitoring
- Renters insurance discount
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The Ooma Smart Security mobile app, with the Ooma Telo communications hub and sensors, lets you secure and monitor your home from anywhere. * Receive alerts when activity is detected with the option to remotely call 911 from your home phone number using your home address as the location of the emergency. * Manage notification preferences and view real-time status and logs of all sensors. * Add as many sensors as you need: Door/Window, Motion, and Water. * Easy wireless installation of sensors anywhere in your home. * Use the Home, Away, and Night modes to control when you would like to receive alerts about your sensor. Add up to seven additional modes for a total of ten. *Use the new Ooma Keypad to switch mode from Away to Home using customized Pin codes. * Use the mobile app to manually switch modes or automatically switch modes using a schedule with a time of day and day of week * Rely on the Professional Monitoring Service to take care of your house when you are busy or not reachable. * Save up to 30% on your Renters insurance by showing them your Smart Security Certificate by Ooma * Learn more at ooma.com.
eHomeLife
Control smart plugs and connected electronic devices remotely. Schedule power cycles, create custom scenes for multiple devices, and monitor device status from anywhere.
- Remote on/off control
- Customizable schedules
- Automated rules
- Scene creation
- Device status monitoring
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eHomeLife mainly focuses on Home Automation gadgets. Currently, we have smart plug available in market. Customers can plug their electronic devices on it and then use the eHomeLife app to easily manage below features. 1. Turn electronic devices on/off from anywhere with eHomeLife app. 2. Create on/off schedules, auto-off rules to work automatically. 3. Support Scenes function, users can set multiple devices to the previously configured settings. 4. Check to see if connected devices are on/off from anywhere for peace of mind.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ooma Smart Security at 4.7 against eHomeLife's 4.3. eHomeLife's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Ooma Smart Security holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 420 and 372 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Ooma Smart Security's written reviews are positive against 81% of eHomeLife's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ooma Smart Security ships an update every 3 months, eHomeLife every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ooma Smart Security | eHomeLife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (420 ratings) — better | 4.3 (372 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 420 — better | 372 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 243 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ooma Inc. | Chengdu Meross Technology Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Ooma Smart Security
eHomeLife
Bugs and requests
Ooma Smart Security
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes on iOS 14
- Notifications crash app
- Status not updating correctly
- Sensors disconnecting frequently
- Geofencing issues
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- Compatibility problems with iOS updates
Requested features
12 requests- Keypad for disarming
- Landscape mode
- iPad app
- IFTTT integration
- Siri shortcuts
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- 3D Touch for mode changes
- Critical alerts
- Pause all notifications
- Ability to copy notification settings
- Sensor renaming improvements
- Siren that can be triggered from app
- Dashboard with condensed sensor view
eHomeLife
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ooma Smart Security
No in-app purchases
eHomeLife
No in-app purchases
Questions
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