Comparison

novaalert 11 vs IxArma

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

novaalert 11

Features
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With the novaalert mobileAPP, your staff and task forces are perfectly equipped for efficient and safe working. Even in emergency situations. Take advantage of novaalert's full range of services on your smartphone, wherever you are. With novaalert mobileAPP for iOS, you have full control over all your alarm events at all times. Alarm messages can be received and triggered anywhere and at any time. Status monitoring in real time keeps you up to date and enables you to take all necessary actions in an emergency. Minimum requirements: novaalert Server Version 10.2 Functions (excerpt): • Trigger and receive alarms, individually for each user • Multimedia alarm messages with individual attachments • Interactive alarms with update messages • Adhoc alarms, adding people during alarm triggering. • Direct alarm, recording an alarm voice message while the alarm is triggered • Alarm receiving with visual and acoustic signaling • Display of phone callback buttons • Acknowledgement positive and negative • Alarm triggering with optional PIN check • Individual text input when triggering an alarm • Status monitor: alarm process and acknowledgement control in real time • Logon/logoff in groups (oncall service) manually manually, via NFC or QR code scan • Localisation of the smartphone via GPS, novaBEACON, WiFi and nfc • Location visualisation on in-house maps and charts • Extensive lone worker functions (when the Lone Worker mode is activated, permanent localization and communication takes place in the background, this can drastically reduce battery life) • Night watchman patrol function, incl. documentation of patrols • Chat Messenger for group chat and alarm chat (novaCHAT) • Push to Talk (PTT) integrated • Biometric authentication to display incoming alarms, trigger alarms, acknowledge alarms, etc. • Fully serverbased app management • Intelligent link security: Support for both GSM and WLAN connections without interruption, priorities can be controlled • Encrypted communication • Multilingual Demo mode: Immediately after download, the app is in demo mode. Production mode: For productive use, an novaalert™ alarm server from novalink GmbH is required. More information at our website

About

IxArma

Features
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IxArma app is the mobile part of alarm server management ixArma enabling a comprehensive business continuity management for any alarm scenarios. Users of ixArma App can rapidly respond to incidents and emergencies in real time and on the go, and send alarms from the app. ixArma 6 app is browser independent and simple to operate. Main functionalities: • Receive alarms of different priorities according to predefined alarm scenarios and plans • Alarms of various priorities with visual and acoustic signalling • Interactive alarms with updates in real time • Acknowledge alarm or reject, also with PIN • Attach documents to alarms • Trigger alarm from the app • Alarm progress and control monitoring in real time • Localization of the smartphone • Fully server based app management • Mass SMS notification • Multilingual • MDM version available on request ixArma is alarm server management console that concentrates alerts from all your devices and manually triggered alarms into one system enabling implementation of a comprehensive business continuity management. ixArma is built to the highest connectivity to all external devices, and offers streamlined alerting via almost unlimited channels to any number of recipients, regardless of how large your organisation is. If your ixArma is lower than version 6.1.0 and would like to use our app, please speak to our customer support how to upgrade to our latest ixArma

Screenshots

novaalert 114 screens
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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: IxArma at 13.2 against novaalert 11's 16.1. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

novaalert 11 ships an update every 3 months, IxArma every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
novaalert 11 versus IxArma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameternovaalert 11IxArma
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.113.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size324 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNovaLink GmbHINAX AG

In-app purchases

None

novaalert 11

No in-app purchases

None

IxArma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is novaalert 11 free?
novaalert 11 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IxArma free?
IxArma is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do novaalert 11 or IxArma have ads?
Neither novaalert 11 nor IxArma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, novaalert 11 or IxArma?
novaalert 11 ships an update every 3 months, and IxArma every 2 months. Most recently, novaalert 11 was updated on August 2, 2026 and IxArma on September 23, 2026.

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