Mroomote vs BerlinArea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mroomote
Unlock doors and manage room components like lights and blinds directly from your smartphone. This system offers flexible access authorization for various locations, serving as a smart alternative to traditional key cards.
- Unlock doors with smartphone
- Control lights, climate, blinds
- Flexible access authorization
- Individual room scenarios
- Compatible with PMS systems
- End-to-end encryption
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The Mroomote® app by MIDITEC is a mobile access and room control management system to unlock doors with a smartphone and control room climate, lights, blinds and many other room components. Mroomote® can be used for a large number of applications: Along with guest rooms it can be used for conference rooms, elevators, parking facilities and main entrances as well as offices and storage areas. The Mroomote® app is a smart alternative to RFID identification media. To unlock doors with a smartphone, the Mroomote® app is all your employees or guests need. The Mroomote® app uses the Bluetooth interface (BLE) integrated in many smartphones for communicating with the electronic door components. As soon as an access point is within reach, it will be displayed on the smartphone. The software is easy to control and secured by end-to-end encryption. The app can store multiple mobile keys for different doors in various objects. The room control offers you the possibility to control all room components via smartphone or tablet. If, for example, reading lamps or blinds are to be controlled via the panels, this can be displayed with a suitable symbol. MIDITEC’s latest RFID door locks and room components are Mroomote® compatible and are used on a variety of door and room types, to give facility managers a flexible choice of entry and control options. Features: • unlock your room with your mobile phone • individual room scenarios • Control of light, climate, blinds and other room components • flexible access authorization for all doors • ideal for hotels, apartment buildings and other properties • compatible with all PMS systems • compliant with highest security standards as the app only connects with predefined access points • RFID cards and transponders can be used simultaneously
BerlinArea
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BerlinArea is a guide to 127 places in Berlin: landmarks, museums, galleries, parks, playgrounds, churches, squares, and fifteen buildings that no longer stand. The map needs no connection. Berlin's vector tiles ship inside the app, drawn in sepia and gold rather than the usual grey road grid, and the photographs and texts are bundled too. You can land at BER with no SIM card and still use everything. Every place has a few paragraphs on its history, the year it was built, its address and a photograph. Directions hands it over to Apple Maps or Google Maps. The city that is gone. The Berliner Stadtschloss, the Palast der Republik that replaced it, the Anhalter Bahnhof, the Sportpalast, four of the five long-distance stations Berlin lost, and the border crossing on Bornholmer Strasse that opened first on the night of 9 November 1989. Each says the year it came down and what stands on the ground today. Where the Wall stood, drawn from Berlin's own 1989 survey of it. East and West are filled in from the first launch, so the two halves of the divided city are there before you touch a filter, with a line telling you which side you are standing on. Eight walks, from the Cold War and Prussian Berlin to Kreuzberg, Charlottenburg and one with children. Each is a line along real streets, not a straight line between pins, with the stops numbered on the map and a bar that steps you through them. It remembers where you stopped. A passport of stamps. Come within a hundred metres of a place and it stamps itself, or press the button on the place screen. The stamps make a poster of your route on parchment over the outline of the 1989 Wall, the places numbered in the order you reached them, ready to share. Then and now. Thirty places carry an archive photograph beside the modern one, each with its year. Hold the picture and it fades to the other, or open it full screen and wipe a handle between them. Listen. Twenty five places are read aloud in English, about ninety seconds each, written for the ear rather than the page. Nothing plays until you press play. Berlin transport, explained. What U, S, M, RE and F mean on the signs, what the zones are, and where a ticket is sold, online and at machines in the city. Search the map by name and every match is on it at once: type Rewe and you get all of them, type Brandenburg and you get the gate. Filter the map by category and only those places stay on it. Parks with a permanent playground have a filter of their own, and every playground says whether it is free, when it closes and whether it is seasonal. Save the ones worth coming back to; favourites live on the device. The practical half of a city is there when you need it and switched off until then: supermarkets, pharmacies, drugstores, brand shops, car dealers, petrol stations, charging points, car parks, cash machines and hotels. 5277 points from OpenStreetMap, chains and buildings only, so they are still there next year. Cycle mode draws 755 km of the Berlin cycle network over the map. It is still experimental. Thirteen languages: English, German, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Italian, French, Spanish, Azerbaijani, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Simplified Chinese. No account, no sign-up, no ads. The only thing that ever leaves the phone is a crash report, and only when the app fails. BerlinArea is a private project and is not affiliated with the State of Berlin.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BerlinArea at weekly against Mroomote's every 12 months. Mroomote's advantage is iOS requirement (10 vs 16.4). 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.
Mroomote ships an update every 12 months, BerlinArea weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mroomote | BerlinArea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MIDITEC Datensysteme GmbH | Elman Huseynov |
In-app purchases
Mroomote
No in-app purchases
BerlinArea
No in-app purchases
Questions
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