Serenity Smart vs Arial Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Serenity Smart
This secure group messaging app connects caregivers for older adults on one platform. It facilitates communication and collaboration to enhance the quality of care and life for seniors.
- Secure group messaging
- Caregiver collaboration
- Improved care quality
- Enhanced quality of life
- Single communication platform
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Serenity Smart is a secure group messaging application that brings everyone providing care to an older adult together on a single platform to communicate and collaborate, thereby improving quality of care and quality of life.
Arial Mobile
This application provides senior living caregivers with an innovative tool for handling emergency call alarms and communicating collaboratively with coworkers. It offers visibility to all relevant alarms, their status, and who is responding, along with features for documenting encounters and direct caregiver messaging.
- Receive and manage emergency call alarms
- View critical alarm information
- Respond to and escalate alarms
- Document caregiver-resident encounters
- Real-time caregiver directory
- Direct caregiver text messaging
- Enhanced reporting on encounter times
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Overview The Arial® Mobile Application has been designed to work seamlessly with STANLEY Healthcare’s Arial® Wireless Emergency Call System to provide senior living caregivers with an innovative tool for handling emergency call alarms and communicating collaboratively with their coworkers. The Arial® Mobile Application is packed with intuitive features to ensure community caregivers have visibility to all relevant alarms, their status and who is responding. Alarm Message Handling • Receive Alarms – receives call station and pendant alarms from anywhere in the facility, using a mobile device, based on the caregiver's assigned zone • Alarm Information – critical alarm information is provided with each message including date, time, alarm name/type and alarm location • Rich Alarm Messages – alarm messages can include images or icons for resi¬dents or devices, alarm type color designations and can be arranged by alarm priority • Respond to Alarms – acceptance of alarms provides notification to coworkers of who is responding • Escalations – Escalating non-addressed alarms is intuitively synchronized with the escalations programmed in the Arial software • Defer events – Certain events can be deferred for a specified timeout period, as well as a reason for the deferral Caregiver/Resident Encounters • Alarm Notes – selectable alarm notes can be pre-configured in Arial to allow caregivers to document what was done during their encounter • Custom Notes – caregivers can type in custom notes detailing an encounter for any accepted alarm response • Alarm Completion – caregivers end the encounter by pressing a “Complete” button, which saves the alarm notes and captures the actual encounter time with the resident Caregiver Text Messaging and Collaboration • Live Directory – a live directory displays all caregivers and indicates those that are currently logged in and working at the facility • Text Messaging – caregivers can collaborate to coordinate resident care by initiating a text message conversation with other caregivers • Each message includes date and time • Messages from each caregiver are differently colored • Messages that fail to send are colored red • Messages and conversations are preserved for 24 hours Enhanced Reporting • Encounter Times – by collecting alarm clearance and alarm completion times, Arial is able to log the actual “encounter time” that a caregiver spends with a resident. This is the time segment between when the call station or pendent in alarm is reset and when the caregiver “completes” the alarm in the mobile application • Encounter times and average encounter time information can be selected and filtered into a large variety of reports within the Arial software • Average encounter times have been incorporated into the Arial Management Dashboard as a data element • Alarm Response Activities – the alarm response activities that are selected by caregivers when completing alarms are logged into the Arial database and are available for generating comprehensive reports
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Verdict
Serenity Smart and Arial Mobile both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Serenity Smart's written reviews are positive against 0% of Arial Mobile's. Serenity Smart also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). Arial Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Serenity Smart against 4.3 for Arial Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Serenity Smart's written reviews are positive against 0% of Arial Mobile's.
Serenity Smart ships an update fortnightly, Arial Mobile every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Serenity Smart | Arial Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (9 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Serenity App, Inc. | Securitas Healthcare LLC |
Customer experience
Serenity Smart
Arial Mobile
In-app purchases
Serenity Smart
No in-app purchases
Arial Mobile
No in-app purchases
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