AlertAQ vs Secure Defence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlertAQ
This platform offers businesses actionable insights for water and HVAC systems to reduce operating costs, enhance sustainability, and protect assets. It provides real-time data on water usage, leak detection, and environmental conditions, powered by IoT sensors.
- Minute-by-minute water use monitoring
- Automatic water leak detection
- Temperature and humidity tracking
- HVAC system performance insights
- Power outage alerts
- Sustainability improvement metrics
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The AlertAQ water and HVAC intelligence platform provides businesses and organizations with actionable insights that help lower operating costs, protect people and buildings and improve sustainability. Over $20,000,000 saved in water costs, 34,000,000 pounds of CO2e emissions prevented, and more than 10,000 water leaks detected. Insights & Alerts - minute-by-minute water use - automatic water leak detection - temperature - humidity - superheat & subcooling - liquid & vapor line pressure & temperature - power outages The AlertAQ platform works with Alert Labs cellular-connected IoT sensors for water and HVAC. Visit alertlabs.com to learn more.
Secure Defence
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Secure Defence is divided into four major applications: monitoring center, event center, intelligent search and access management. It has functions such as live view, video playback, map, alarm push notifications, face detection, visitor passing, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AlertAQ at weekly against Secure Defence's every 5 months. Secure Defence's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AlertAQ ships an update weekly, Secure Defence every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlertAQ | Secure Defence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alert Labs | Secure Defence Corporation |
In-app purchases
AlertAQ
No in-app purchases
Secure Defence
No in-app purchases
