WIN vs BlastShield Authenticator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WIN
This app provides real-time industrial alarm monitoring and interaction for mobile devices. It allows teams to quickly respond to and resolve alarm conditions, view detailed alarm history, and communicate directly within the app.
- Real-time alarm monitoring
- Push notifications for alerts
- Alarm acknowledgement with comments
- Team chat within alarm context
- On-demand alarm requests
- View process values and states
- Track alarm viewing and acknowledgement
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WIN-911 Mobile brings new time-saving tools and features to the latest generation of mobile devices, giving your team a faster, easier way to respond and resolve industrial alarm conditions in real-time. With WIN-911 Mobile, you can: - Monitor and interact with Alarms, Reports, and Team Chat from multiple WIN-911 systems - Alert operators of Alarm & Report updates with push notifications - Temporarily suppress notifications using Do Not Disturb mode - View a summary of Alarms from a WIN-911 system - View detailed Alarm information and history - Communicate with Team members within the context of specific Alarms using built-in Chat - Acknowledge Alarms (with optional comment) - Request Alarms on demand by State, Severity, and/or Alarm Label - View real-time process values and condition states using WIN-911 Reports - View and Track when Team members have viewed and acknowledged alarms
BlastShield Authenticator
This app provides highly secure access to a private network, making IIoT assets and infrastructure invisible to threats. It offers a convenient authentication experience similar to mobile payment systems.
- Software-defined private network protection
- IIoT asset and infrastructure security
- Invisible to malicious actors
- Highly secure network access
- Convenient authentication experience
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BlastShield™ is a revolutionary software-defined private network solution from BlastWave that protects IIoT assets, infrastructure and applications by rendering them invisible to malicious actors. The BlastShield™ Authenticator enables highly secure access into a BlastShield™ network via a convenient “Apple Pay” experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BlastShield Authenticator at 5.0 against WIN's 4.5. WIN's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 16.0). 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.
BlastShield Authenticator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WIN has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WIN ships an update every 3 months, BlastShield Authenticator every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WIN | BlastShield Authenticator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WIN-911 Software | BlastWave Inc. |
Customer experience
WIN
BlastShield Authenticator
In-app purchases
WIN
No in-app purchases
BlastShield Authenticator
No in-app purchases
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