Comparison

GroupAlarm.com vs Li.oN

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.

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Li.oN

Features
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Mit dieser App können Sie Ihre Führerscheinkontrolle durchführen, wenn Ihre Firma diese mittels Rew.Is oder Li.oN überwacht.

Screenshots

GroupAlarm.com4 screens
Li.oN1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GroupAlarm.com at weekly against Li.oN's every 14 months. Li.oN's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

GroupAlarm.com ships an update weekly, Li.oN every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GroupAlarm.com versus Li.oN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupAlarm.comLi.oN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developercubos Internet GmbHFindSolutions UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

None

GroupAlarm.com

No in-app purchases

None

Li.oN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GroupAlarm.com free?
GroupAlarm.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Li.oN free?
Li.oN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GroupAlarm.com or Li.oN have ads?
Neither GroupAlarm.com nor Li.oN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GroupAlarm.com or Li.oN?
GroupAlarm.com ships an update weekly, and Li.oN every 14 months. Most recently, GroupAlarm.com was updated on October 13, 2026 and Li.oN on September 26, 2026.

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