Ooma Smart Security vs Noonki
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.
Noonki
Cultivate a virtual garden and a starry sky by performing acts of kindness. This app offers daily prompts and a unique creature companion to encourage positive actions, fostering personal growth and a sense of calm.
- Perform daily acts of kindness
- Grow a virtual garden
- Light stars for quiet kindnesses
- Nurture a companion creature
- Receive daily kindness prompts
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Calm, ad-free design
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Noonki hands you one small way to make someone's day better, then turns that kindness into a world you can watch grow: a garden by day, a sky full of stars by night. SEEDS BY DAY Seeds are kindnesses you do with your hands. A coffee for the person behind you. A shelf fixed for a neighbor. A thank you that was long overdue. Complete a seed and your garden answers: a new flower, fresh petals, a tree reaching higher. SPARKS BY NIGHT Sparks are the quiet kind, felt more than seen. Listening fully. Letting someone go first. A patient breath instead of a sharp word. Each spark lights a star, and stars gather into constellations named for the person you are becoming: The Listener, The Grateful, The Brave. YOUR NOONKI Your Noonki is a small creature that watches over the garden you grow. You name it, and it answers to that name. It has a birthday, a sign, and opinions about kindness. THE DAILY MOMENT If you say yes, a small message arrives each day, woven from the day's own sky and a real kindness to try. You choose how many a day and the hours they arrive. On a day you have already planted something, it simply says so and lets you rest. It never nags, never counts down, and never mentions your streak. CALM BY DESIGN There is no endless feed and no follower count. Friends are a table, not an audience: a free garden seats three, and Noonki Plus opens the table to everyone. A day away only pauses your streak, and your Noonki helps you mend it with two kindnesses. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You can begin without an account. There are no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and no server of our own. Your practice lives on your phone. Its two iCloud copies open only with your own Apple Account or your recovery key, and your notes, journal and photos are never part of either. Friends you add see the first name you choose, your garden code and color, your week's sun, flowers and streak, and the moments you send them. WIDGETS Keep the streak lantern, the day's seed, tonight's star or the garden's sky on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, and follow the day's seeds and sparks in a Live Activity. MADE TO BE READ Noonki is set in its own typeface, made for this app and shaped for legibility: letters that are hard to mistake for one another, generous spacing, and a switch back to familiar lettering for anyone who prefers it. VoiceOver, larger text, reduced motion and higher contrast are supported across the app. WHAT IS FREE Planting, sparks, the streak and its mend, the Daily Moment, widgets, friends, your Noonki and its name are free, and so are three garden beds, three constellations open at a time, the last seven days of the Almanac, and three seats at your table. WHAT NOONKI PLUS ADDS Every garden bed, the whole Almanac, every constellation and the sky editor, the studio, wings, coats and patterns, new weather, pressed flowers, four more widget faces, kindnesses you write yourself, names for your flowers and skies, the seed jar, star readings, weekly reflections, every kindness challenge at once, gentle routines, the Observatory, the dream journal, your month and year written up, and a table with room for everyone. HOW NOONKI PLUS WORKS Noonki Plus is a monthly or yearly plan, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. The price for your country is shown in the app before you buy. When the App Store offers it, a plan begins with a free trial. Plans renew automatically until you cancel in Settings. Some parts of the garden can also be kept on their own, once, for good, from the plans screen or where you meet them. The free garden keeps growing either way. Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ooma Smart Security at none against Noonki's 11. Ooma Smart Security also leads on ratings volume (422 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Noonki's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Noonki sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Ooma Smart Security asks for nothing beyond the download.
Noonki 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 422 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ooma Smart Security ships an update every 3 months, Noonki monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ooma Smart Security | Noonki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (422 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 422 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ooma Inc. | NOONKI LLC |
Customer experience
Ooma Smart Security
Noonki
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
Noonki
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ooma Smart Security
No in-app purchases
Noonki
- Constellation · Steadfast$5.00
- Constellation · Open$5.00
- Constellation · Luminous$5.00
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- Write your own deeds$5.00
- Choose your wings$5.00
- Weather over your garden$5.00
- Every coat and pattern$5.00
- Pressed flowers, exported$5.00
- Every widget face$5.00
- The studio, for good$15.00
- Noonki Plus, once and for good$150.00
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