Arial Mobile vs Buzz Continuum™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Buzz Continuum™
Streamline patient care coordination with this app, offering efficient document management, workflow tools, and resource discovery. It facilitates secure communication, provider searches, and telehealth video sessions.
- Document viewer/editor with annotation and signature capabilities
- Healthcare resource finder with location services
- Search for nationally registered healthcare providers
- Initiate secure video communication for telehealth
- HIPAA-compliant secure sharing options
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Buzz Continuum is an integral part of Skyscape's Buzz Communication and Collaboration platform. This app streamlines communication & collaboration necessary for effective patient care coordination. Use this app for efficient document management & workflow, discovering healthcare resources and facilities, finding nationally registered healthcare providers, and initiating video communication for telehealth. Buzz Continuum works either as a companion to Buzz or as a standalone app. Document Viewer/Editor *** As a document viewer/editor, it supports functionality to fill forms and edit/annotate/markup documents in various formats such as images, Adobe PDF®, or Microsoft Office documents. Exchanging consent documents with signatures & approvals becomes a breeze with the built-in capabilities. Sharing notes, reports, or forms via AirDrop, SMS, Email or other communication channel is supported (with caution to manage sensitive information to be only shared via the HIPAA-compliant channels such as Buzz™ Secure Medical Platform. Gone are the days of needing to fax documents with signatures. With Buzz Continuum, you don't need to work with multiple applications to save, copy, edit, and share documents or forms. One of our most powerful features lets you work with insurance, intake, or consent forms and then insert signatures to such documents. Along with signatures, we have included many different annotation modes for any additional edits you may need to make. • View • Annotate • Markup • Draw • Insert • Measure • Add Text • Stamps Healthcare Resource Finder *** With Explore Nearby options, you can locate healthcare resources in a given region with just a few taps - much more accessible than you can do with Apple or Google maps! In addition, you can navigate to the location or the websites for urgent healthcare needs. You can locate the following resources near an address in an instant: • Pharmacies • Clinics • Urgent Care • Physical Therapy • Occupational Therapy • Hospitals • Rehab Centers Welcome to Buzz Continuum, a new powerful document editor. Registered Healthcare Provider Search *** As a part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Standard, the US National Provider Identification registry contains individual healthcare providers and qualified healthcare providers. You can search this database to identify trusted providers and communicate with them. Secure Video Communication with Healthcare Providers *** Initiate Video sessions with the passkey for the scheduled sessions with physicians and other healthcare providers. Video sessions are setup by the providers using the Buzz platform. Finally, a Powerful Companion to Buzz™ *** Buzz Continuum is a companion application for Buzz: Secure Medical Messenger found on the AppStore. Buzz enables Healthcare Providers with real-time communication and collaboration capabilities in a single environment, offered free to healthcare providers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buzz Continuum™ at 100% against Arial Mobile's 0%. Buzz Continuum™ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Arial Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Buzz Continuum™ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Arial Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buzz Continuum™'s.
Arial Mobile ships an update every 4 months, Buzz Continuum™ monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arial Mobile | Buzz Continuum™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 266 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Securitas Healthcare LLC | Skyscape Medpresso Inc |
Customer experience
Arial Mobile
Buzz Continuum™
In-app purchases
Arial Mobile
No in-app purchases
Buzz Continuum™
No in-app purchases
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