Comparison

Ooma Smart Security vs Noonki

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Ooma Smart Security4 screens
Noonki4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Noonki sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Ooma Smart Security asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Ooma Smart Security versus Noonki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOoma Smart SecurityNoonki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (422 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings422 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB25 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOoma Inc.NOONKI LLC

Customer experience

Ooma Smart Security

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

Noonki

All ratings2 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

Noonki

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ooma Smart Security

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Noonki

One-time11
  • 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

Questions

Is Ooma Smart Security free?
Ooma Smart Security is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noonki free?
Noonki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ooma Smart Security or Noonki?
Noonki is rated higher. Ooma Smart Security averages 4.7 out of 5 from 422 ratings, while Noonki averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Ooma Smart Security or Noonki have ads?
Neither Ooma Smart Security nor Noonki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ooma Smart Security or Noonki?
Ooma Smart Security ships an update every 3 months, and Noonki monthly. Most recently, Ooma Smart Security was updated on November 1, 2026 and Noonki on October 25, 2026.

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