StreamLabs vs Pet Stop Link
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StreamLabs
This app provides comprehensive home water management, detecting leaks and offering insights into water usage. It connects with smart devices to alert you to potential issues and allows for customized settings or automatic learning for protection.
- Real-time water usage monitoring
- Customizable leak detection alerts
- Smart Alerts™ learning leak detection
- Freeze and temperature alerts
- Home and Away modes
- Remote water shut-off (with Control device)
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Meet StreamLabs®, your all-in-one home water solution that protects your home from water damage and leaks from both plumbing and non-plumbing sources. Using a combination of advanced ultrasonic technology and sensors, StreamLabs captures and delivers powerful insights into your water usage – and provides real-time alerts of potential leaks. Manually customize your leak alert settings or let the new learning Smart Alerts™ feature automatically protect your home by detecting any water usage outside of the norm. Choose from three StreamLabs devices: StreamLabs Scout, StreamLabs Monitor or StreamLabs Control. All three of these Wi-Fi-enabled devices provide leak protection for your home, and work together or independently. The StreamLabs Scout and the StreamLabs Smart Home Water Monitor each install in under 5-minutes with no pipe cutting, tools, or professional installer required. The StreamLabs Control features remote, flow-based automatic water shut-off functionality, and can use alerts from the Scout to stop leaks even sooner for high-risk appliances such as water heaters and ice makers. The StreamLabs App is mission control for your StreamLabs devices. It supports the Scout, Monitor and Control all in one place to create tailored household leak protection optimized for your needs. In the StreamLabs App, you’ll have access to: - Live water usage - Customized leak detection settings: slow and major leak alerts (Monitor and Control) - Smart Alerts™ learning leak detection (Monitor and Control) - Freeze alerts (Scout, Monitor and Control) - Home and Away modes (Monitor and Control) - Comparative water usage charts (Monitor and Control) - Remote shut-off (Control only) - Water pressure, water temperature (Control only) - Drip Detect™ alerts (Control only) - Room Temperature alerts (Scout, Monitor, and Control) - Humidity alerts (Scout and Control) See how StreamLabs puts household leak protection at your fingertips. To learn more, visit www.StreamLabswater.com.
Pet Stop Link
This app connects to a smart pet fence system, allowing you to monitor your pet's behavior and receive notifications for collar charging or setting adjustments. It provides real-time information and over 1000 customizable settings for your pet's safety and your peace of mind.
- Smartphone connectivity
- Pet behavior monitoring
- Collar charging notifications
- Remote setting adjustments
- Over 1000 customizable settings
- Real-time information access
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Imagine a pet fence system that Links to your smartphone. That monitors your pet’s behavior and sends you a notification if a setting needs to be changed. A setting you send to your dog’s collar with a quick click. Now there’s Link™, an amazing breakthrough in pet fencing. With Link you’ll have access to real-time information at your fingertips and so will your Pet Stop Dealer. Information like letting you know the collar needs to be charged or prompting you to make an adjustment to the over 1000 available settings. Link makes it all so easy. This breakthrough technology forever changes the peace-of-mind you get from your Pet Stop system, and it's only available through participating Dealers. For over a decade Pet Stop has been the leader in technology, providing more custom settings to individualize our products than any other manufacturer in the industry. Ask your Pet Stop Dealer about Link and the ability to be one of the first to receive a Link enabled product as soon as it becomes available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pet Stop Link at 3.9 against StreamLabs's 2.5. Pet Stop Link also leads on review sentiment (55% vs 20%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). StreamLabs's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Pet Stop Link holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 93 and 71 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of StreamLabs's written reviews are positive against 55% of Pet Stop Link's.
StreamLabs ships an update every 3 weeks, Pet Stop Link every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StreamLabs | Pet Stop Link |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (93 ratings) | 3.9 (71 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.7% of reviews | 55.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 71 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RWC | Perimeter Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
StreamLabs
Pet Stop Link
User reviews
StreamLabs
From 93 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ Real-time water flow
- 🛡️ Prevents water damage
- 💡 Great idea for monitoring
- 🏠 Protects home from leaks
- 📈 Usage reports available
Room to improve
- ❌ App frequently crashes
- ❌ Poor customer service
- ❌ Device not connecting to WiFi
- ❌ App freezes/shuts down
- ❌ Inaccurate leak detection
Pet Stop Link
From 71 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for behavior training
- 👍 Effective for stopping unwanted behaviors (jumping, barking)
- 👍 App allows remote trainer functionality
- 👍 Convenient for adjusting collar settings
- 👍 Night light feature is useful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 Limited Bluetooth range (often < 15-20 feet)
- 🐛 Disconnects frequently
- 🐛 App is unreliable
- 🐛 Inaccurate battery life reporting
Bugs and requests
StreamLabs
Reported bugs
38 issues- App keeps freezing on login
- Device dies before use
- Device doesn't connect to WiFi
- App needs user feedback (timeout, signal strength)
- App crashes when clicking on device
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- Controller has power but no lights/connectivity
- System failed to detect major leak
- App shuts off water for normal activities (shower, softener regen)
- No alerts received after update
- App crashes and shuts off water
- Buggy and terrible UX
- App crashing on 3/10/2024
- App shows device offline incorrectly
- App update caused connectivity loss
- App won't allow device naming/saving
- App asks for setup repeatedly
- App works only on Android, not iPhone
- App kicks user out, requires password reset, forgets devices/history
- App crashes after reinstall
- App stuck on opening screen
- App doesn't recognize home WiFi network
- App deletes account setup
- App doesn't load properly
- App recalibrates when opened past home page
- App disconnects from server
- App shows offline message
- App doesn't stay logged in
- App is dormant, cannot load
- 504 Gateway Time-Out error
- Historical data needs better display (minutes, calendar access)
- Water running status rarely correct
- App is unstable
- App prone to crashes
- Fails to connect
- Tells user there's a leak when there isn't
- Failure with firmware status
- Unit would not connect to iPhone
- App stuck at calibration step
Requested features
11 requests- Add Apple Watch compatibility
- Allow specified alert sound for leaks
- Integrate with Google Home/Home/Away status
- Support for password managers
- Display historical data for previous days
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- Calendar interface for historical data access
- Real-time meter for last 60 minutes
- Ability to input unusual water events beforehand
- Improve API access for free users
- Allow multiple devices per account
- Fix iPhone compatibility issues
Pet Stop Link
Reported bugs
10 issues- App is slow to connect
- App disconnects frequently
- App has limited range
- Inaccurate battery life reporting
- App connects to the wrong collar
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- App history/data is incorrect or confusing
- "Invalid Pin" errors prevent connection
- App does not launch after updates
- Light button does not work reliably
- App is unstable and hangs on loading screen
Requested features
8 requests- Improve connection speed and reliability
- Increase Bluetooth range
- More accurate battery life reporting
- Better history/data logging and visualization
- Fix "Invalid Pin" errors
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- Ensure app launches after updates
- Improve multi-dog collar selection
- Allow remote trainer to work at greater distances
In-app purchases
StreamLabs
No in-app purchases
Pet Stop Link
No in-app purchases









