beam Home vs SentryGo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
beam Home
Control and monitor your garage door remotely using your smartphone. Grant access to others and receive alerts if your door is left open. Integrates with other smart home devices for enhanced convenience and security.
- Remote garage door control
- Activity monitoring
- Customizable door names
- Grant access to friends/family
- Open door notifications
- Smart home integrations
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This update improves the overall stability, reliability, and performance of the application. By updating deprecated libraries and enhancing internal components, the app is better equipped to support the latest platforms and devices. Additionally, a new crash monitoring solution has been integrated, enabling our team to detect, investigate, and resolve issues more quickly. This helps reduce unexpected crashes and ensures a more reliable experience for our users.
SentryGo
This professional-grade app enables security teams to monitor and protect valuable art collections using AI-powered surveillance. It brings advanced security monitoring capabilities directly to mobile devices for museums and galleries.
- AI-powered surveillance
- Real-time monitoring
- Art collection protection
- Mobile security system
- Museum and gallery focus
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SentryGo brings the power of Art Sentry’s advanced security monitoring system directly to your mobile device. Designed for museums and general surveillance environments, this professional-grade app enables security teams to monitor spaces, assets, and visitors with intelligent AI-powered oversight, helping ensure safety, prevent incidents, and respond quickly to potential threats.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SentryGo at 5.0 against beam Home's 4.2. beam Home's advantage is ratings volume (233 vs 2). 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.
SentryGo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: beam Home has 233 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
beam Home ships an update every 2 months, SentryGo every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | beam Home | SentryGo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (233 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 233 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beam Labs LLC | Acuity-vct, Inc. |
Customer experience
beam Home
SentryGo
Bugs and requests
beam Home
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes during setup
- App crashes on launch after update
- Cannot log in after setup
- Reset password link not sent
- Controller disabled due to too many failed attempts
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- Controller requires paired door sensor error
- App malfunctions when needed
- Door sensor drains battery quickly
- Cannot link with Alexa
- Apple Watch app closes when trying to open
Requested features
3 requests- Watch complication for Apple Watch
- Ability to turn opener light on/off
- Update app with Apple HomeKit support
SentryGo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
beam Home
No in-app purchases
SentryGo
No in-app purchases
