Comparison

Ooma Smart Security vs GuardHer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Remote home monitoring
  • Activity detection alerts
  • Sensor status and logs
  • Customizable notification preferences
  • Home, Away, and Night modes
  • Optional professional monitoring
  • Renters insurance discount
Features
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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.

About

GuardHer

This community-driven safety app helps users, particularly students and young women, feel more secure. It allows for anonymous reporting of unsafe incidents, displays community-reported locations on a map, and suggests safer travel routes. The app prioritizes user privacy and aims to empower individuals with awareness and safer navigation.

Highlights
  • Anonymous incident reporting
  • Community-reported safety map
  • Safer route suggestions
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Trend identification
  • Location-based alerts
Features
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GuardHer is a community-driven safety app designed to help students and young women feel safer in their everyday environments. Users can anonymously report unsafe incidents, view community-reported locations on a map, and receive safer route suggestions when traveling between locations. The app prioritizes privacy and user safety. Reports are anonymous, location-based, and time-stamped to help identify trends while protecting individuals. GuardHer also includes optional feedback features to improve accuracy and community trust. GuardHer was developed to address real safety concerns in urban school environments and aims to empower users with information, awareness, and safer navigation choices. GuardHer does not share personal user data publicly. Location data is used only for safety-related features and is not sold or shared with third parties. GuardHer was designed and developed by Anushka Arjun, a high school student, to help students and young women stay safe.

Screenshots

Ooma Smart Security4 screens
GuardHer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Ooma Smart Security at 420 against GuardHer's 1. Ooma Smart Security also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). GuardHer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

GuardHer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ooma Smart Security has 420 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ooma Smart Security versus GuardHer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOoma Smart SecurityGuardHer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (420 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings420 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB146 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOoma Inc.Rachana Bellamane Radhakrishna

Customer experience

Ooma Smart Security

All ratings420 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral1.0%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews134 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative20.1%

GuardHer

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

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

GuardHer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ooma Smart Security

No in-app purchases

None

GuardHer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ooma Smart Security free?
Ooma Smart Security is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GuardHer free?
GuardHer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ooma Smart Security or GuardHer?
GuardHer is rated higher. Ooma Smart Security averages 4.7 out of 5 from 420 ratings, while GuardHer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ooma Smart Security or GuardHer have ads?
Neither Ooma Smart Security nor GuardHer shows ads.

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