RCare Mobile vs Helpany
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RCare Mobile
Streamline senior housing care with a mobile nurse call system. This app provides caregivers with resident details, call accountability, and direct communication tools. Log daily living activities and pinpoint alert locations for efficient and responsive care.
- Targeted nurse calls
- Resident information display
- Call claiming and accountability
- Voice-to-voice communication
- Activity of Daily Living logging
- Advanced locating protocol
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Designed for on-the-go senior housing staff and caregivers, provides a powerful set of tools for your caregivers, making caregiving more efficient and responsive over antiquated pager-based nurse call systems. With RCare Mobile, the nurse call goes out only to the caregivers who are responsible for answering. When receiving the call, staff is informed of not only the room number, but also the resident’s name, their photograph, as well as details about their needs. This way, even if the staff member or the resident are new and have never met, the caregiver is armed with a wealth of information that pager-based systems do not give. - “I Got It” Feature Integrated with your RCare nurse call system, RCare Mobile lets your caregivers claim a call, ensuring accountability. It lets all caregivers to see which calls have been claimed and by whom. It verifies all calls get answered and eliminates duplication of efforts. The alarm stops once it’s claimed, reducing alarm fatigue. - Voice-to-Voice Communication Power The RCare Mobile app puts the communication power of a smart phone in the hands of your caregivers, but without the risks and distractions of personal cell phones. Speak with residents. What is the situation? Reassure them help is on the way. Communicate (text/call) with other caregivers and staff. - Record “Activities of Daily Living” With RCare Mobile, caregivers can log resident visits for helping with ADLs, by checking in and out of the point of care. The RCare system can automatically track the time spent providing specific services. This is helpful for billing and also for staffing and tracking specific resident needs.
Helpany
This app, paired with a radar device, monitors seniors' activity levels and routines to keep family caregivers informed. It allows seniors to send alerts with a single tap and notifies caregivers if a senior's smartphone leaves a designated area.
- Senior activity monitoring
- Family caregiver notifications
- One-tap emergency alerts
- Smartphone location tracking
- Behavioral habit insights
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At the heart of Helpany's product is an app and the radar-based device called Paul, ingeniously designed to make the well-being of seniors visible and to keep family caregivers informed if they need help. Paul senses human motion, which reveals the level of physical activity, daily routines, and behavioral habits of seniors for family caregivers through the corresponding app. The app also allows seniors to alert family caregivers from anywhere with just a single tap, ensuring immediate attention. Also, thanks to the Helpany app on the senior's smartphone, caregivers will know if the smartphone does not return home. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Helpany at 5.0 against RCare Mobile's 4.7. RCare Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Helpany holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.
RCare Mobile ships an update every 6 weeks, Helpany every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RCare Mobile | Helpany |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | RCare | Sedimentum AG |
Customer experience
RCare Mobile
Helpany
In-app purchases
RCare Mobile
No in-app purchases
Helpany
No in-app purchases








