Comparison

GroupAlarm.com vs Nora Mobile

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

Head to head
About

GroupAlarm.com

This app provides targeted mobile alerts and fast deployment feedback for emergency personnel and teams. It allows users to manage availability, view alarm history, and communicate within their organization. Critical alerts ensure no notification is missed, even in silent mode.

Highlights
  • Targeted mobile alerts with push notifications
  • Fast deployment feedback
  • View past and current alarms
  • Manage availability by time and location
  • Critical alerts for silent mode
  • Integrated messenger for group communication
  • Secure access with Touch ID/Face ID
Features
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For whom is the free alarm app suitable? The free alarm app from GroupAlarm is the reliable companion for emergency personnel, employees and teams during daily on-duty and on-call operations. Advantages of the alarm app: 1. targeted mobile alerts with push notifications: Get alerted or trigger alerts quickly and specifically with GroupAlarm. The alerted persons receive all deployment details via encrypted connections. 2. fast deployment feedback - also via the lockscreen with Force Touch, 3D Touch and Haptic Touch: as a dispatcher, give your feedback on a deployment via the free alarm app, so that the dispatcher knows whether you can participate. 3. See all past and current alarms at a glance, divided into own and all alarms. Details such as organization name, time, deployment keyword, deployment termination, deployment location using map view, and participant feedback are also included. 4. Manage your availability depending on time and location, for example with recurring availabilities or geofences. 5. never miss an alert again, even in silent mode, i.e. when your smartphone is muted. The "Critical Alerts" of your iPhone make this possible. 6. When you acknowledge an alarm, the alerting app automatically calculates the time it will take for you to arrive (assuming you have permission). 7. with the help of the integrated messenger you communicate within your organization in freely configurable groups and with all alarmed participants in an operation. 8. use your own or predefined tones for your alarms, also individually for your organizations. 9. test your alarm app notification settings at any time via the web interface using a test alarm. 10. additionally protect the access to your alarm app via Touch ID or Face ID. 11. use the Alarm App for free with a single login, even if you belong to multiple organizations. About GroupAlarm GroupAlarm's alerting app is a free component of the VdS 10000 certified alerting and communication platform GroupAlarm, which has been on the market since 2001. Authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS), industrial companies, cities, municipalities and hospitals use GroupAlarm in the context of alerting and crisis communication for small and large emergencies, such as: - Shortening of emergency response times, - securing business continuity management (BCM), - effective risk and crisis management, - population protection, - product recalls, - Implementation of emergency plans or protection concepts, etc. Many alerting methods The alarm is triggered either manually via the app or the browser interface, automatically via mission control systems such as Cobra, or remotely via call or SMS. For the transmission of the alarm, GroupAlarm uses many different channels. The FRED pager from hk.systems is used for primary alerting. Its alarm path is encrypted throughout and has multiple redundancies. Thanks to a dual-SIM solution with roaming at home and abroad, the powerful IoT pager can use all available mobile networks. The app, SMS, call (landline and mobile) and e-mail message paths are available as secondary alerts. These can each be stored with different escalation levels. All alerting channels are capable of processing feedback messages.

About

Nora Mobile

This app streamlines biomedical equipment service operations. It allows users to manage equipment, perform lookups, and generate reports for enhanced service efficiency.

Highlights
  • Equipment service management
  • Equipment lookup
  • Reporting tools
  • Service operations streamlining
Features
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Nora Mobile is a multifunctional service app used by Quality Biomedical. Features include equipment service, lookup and reporting.

Screenshots

GroupAlarm.com4 screens
Nora Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GroupAlarm.com at 62% against Nora Mobile's 13%. GroupAlarm.com also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Nora Mobile's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (13.6 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nora Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of GroupAlarm.com's written reviews are positive against 13% of Nora Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GroupAlarm.com ships an update weekly, Nora Mobile every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GroupAlarm.com versus Nora Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupAlarm.comNora Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercubos Internet GmbHQuality Biomedical

Customer experience

GroupAlarm.com

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral14.0%
Negative24.0%

Nora Mobile

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

In-app purchases

None

GroupAlarm.com

No in-app purchases

None

Nora Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GroupAlarm.com free?
GroupAlarm.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nora Mobile free?
Nora Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GroupAlarm.com or Nora Mobile?
Nora Mobile is rated higher. GroupAlarm.com averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Nora Mobile averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do GroupAlarm.com or Nora Mobile have ads?
Neither GroupAlarm.com nor Nora Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GroupAlarm.com or Nora Mobile?
GroupAlarm.com ships an update weekly, and Nora Mobile every 4 weeks. Most recently, GroupAlarm.com was updated on October 13, 2026 and Nora Mobile on October 15, 2026.

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