Comparison

PACE Guardian vs Rhyno

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

Head to head
About

PACE Guardian

This platform transforms your smartphone into a comprehensive safety tool for various scenarios, including travel, lone worker, and remote site monitoring. It offers real-time alerts, emergency communication, location tracking, and local risk information to ensure user welfare.

Highlights
  • Real-time news and travel alerts
  • Emergency location alerting
  • Instant messaging for communication
  • One-click employee welfare check-ins
  • Itinerary tracking
  • Local risk information and emergency contacts
  • Map of safe locations and facilities
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‘PACE Guardian’ is a cloud monitoring, communications and duty-of-care platform. Guardian turns your smartphone into a Preparation, Assistance, Communication and Emergency tool, and is currently used for general employee safety, travel risk, lone worker, remote site, facilities management and aviation, road and maritime asset monitoring. - ALERTS: near real-time news and travel alerts as well as regional risk information. - HELP: alert with acknowledgement that “pings” your location to our Emergency Centre integration with 24/7/365 monitoring services and responders. - MESSAGING: Instant messenger style conversation tools for direct communications or mass notifications to provide information, guidance or support during an emergency. - CHECK-IN and MONITOR ME: one-click track and trace to ensure employee welfare. - ITINERARY TRACKING: linked to your travel management company. - LOCAL RISK INFORMATION: unlimited access to insights, risk information and intelligence with local emergency contacts, vaccinations, currency, local laws and religion. - MAPS: show major hospitals, police stations, embassies and “safe-haven” locations. - BLUETOOTH: simple integration with Bluetooth wearable and accessories. - DOCUMENTS: useful browser to view references such as health and safety advice, briefs and policies - INCIDENT LOGS: time-stamped for all location information and communication. The management control platform connects many types of device across multiple networks. We currently have over 200 device types (including phones, satellite devices, alarms and sensors) connected and communicating with the platform – clearly visible on a single map displaying locations, alerts and communications. This single management platform gives peace-of-mind and people, places and things. Please Note: Continuous GPS services running on devices can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Rhyno

Easily check your Myki card balance and status for public transport in Melbourne. Find nearby top-up locations and receive reminders for low balances or expiring cards. Supports multiple cards with custom labels and offers offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Check Myki card balance and status
  • Find nearby top-up locations
  • Receive low balance and expiry reminders
  • Add multiple cards with custom labels
  • Offline functionality
  • Widgets for quick balance checks
  • VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support
Features
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Rhyno is a simple app for checking whether or not your Myki card will allow you to travel on public transport in Melbourne. It's easy to understand and delightful to use. Checking your balance has never been this straightforward or fun! Rhyno is laser-focused on the offline traveller’s experience. When your balance is low, use Rhyno’s map of every top-up location in Victoria to find places to top up in person. Rhyno can even suggest the closest one. If your card is about to expire, Rhyno will let you know. Add your Myki card using NFC, and Rhyno will show its status, be it Myki money or Myki pass. If you add multiple cards, you can assign each one a coloured label to help understand which one is which. Order your cards however you choose, and remove them when they’re no longer needed. Widgets enable you to glance at your cards’ balances at any moment. If you really want to up the game, you can build your own shortcut in the Shortcuts app using Rhyno's actions. Rhyno will show a reminder to top up in Notification Centre when your main card’s balance or pass is running out and also when your main card is about to expire. Robust VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support makes Rhyno a fully accessible member of the odd-toed ungulate order of mammals. Rhyno proudly boasts: • no ads, • no creepy tracking or analytics, • no back-end server as a middle-man (all processing and logic is run on-device), • no imported code. Rhyno is lovingly coded by hand in Melbourne.

Screenshots

PACE Guardian4 screens
Rhyno4 screens

Verdict

The call

PACE Guardian and Rhyno are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PACE Guardian versus Rhyno: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPACE GuardianRhyno
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better95.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better13.3
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertwo10degrees LtdMatt Kelsh

Customer experience

PACE Guardian

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rhyno

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive95.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PACE Guardian

No in-app purchases

None

Rhyno

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PACE Guardian free?
PACE Guardian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rhyno free?
Rhyno is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PACE Guardian or Rhyno have ads?
Neither PACE Guardian nor Rhyno shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PACE Guardian or Rhyno?
PACE Guardian ships an update every 3 months, and Rhyno every 3 months. Most recently, PACE Guardian was updated on October 24, 2026 and Rhyno on October 24, 2026.

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