Comparison

Arial Mobile vs Sociants

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Sociants

This app digitizes care administration for social workers and community leaders. It allows for real-time data capture, offline access, and secure case management, streamlining outreach and addressing social determinants of health.

Highlights
  • Digital intake management
  • Full case profile with socio-demographics
  • Real-time data capture and syncing
  • Offline functionality
  • Digital signature consents
  • Progress notes and document upload
  • Multi-language support (English, Spanish)
Features
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Welcome to Sociants World Sociants App is a member-only app for social workers, community leaders, community health workers (CHWs), and volunteers to easily administer care to those they seek help. Sociants App enables community-based organizations and volunteering programs to replace their paper processes with mobile solutions that are easily adapted to your social worker teams. Built by social workers and people-centered product designers, the Sociants App provides the best features and workflows to access care, stay up-to-date with all your casework and carry all your files in your pocket, and access cases from anywhere. Sociants App helps address the social determinants of health of the patients, citizens, and the people in your communities. Sociants are used by health plans, clinics, hospitals, community-based providers, social workers, faith-based organizations, community leaders, and volunteers. Main Features - Digital intake management - Full case profile with socio-demographics - Capture rich data in real-time, syncing both mobile and web interfaces - Precise person’s location and address with GPS - Consents with digital signature - Progress notes - Upload documents - Take pictures of the patient’s environment - Identify social determinants of health - Track activities - Measure outreach - Role-based access control with permission on case records activities - Multi-language: English and Spanish Saves Time - Sociants App includes all the crucial tools you will need to assist people in need. - Digital intakes. Avoid paperwork and countless hours of data tabulation. - Take your team to the field without further preparation. - Streamline the process of referrals. Practical - Sociants App is built to work offline. When the device is connected, data is sent back at regular intervals. When offline, all data is stored securely on the device and uploaded when back online. - Great for disaster recovery and communities in the last mile. - No additional hardware, just use your mobile or tablet. - Easy login and saves case data continuously. Secured - All communication between the user devices and the server is over an encrypted channel and data stored on the devices is also encrypted. - Always remote access using your organization's credentials. - HIPAA compliant. For more details, visit www.sociants.com

Screenshots

Arial Mobile4 screens
Sociants4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sociants at 5.0 against Arial Mobile's 4.3. Sociants also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Arial Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Sociants holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arial Mobile ships an update every 4 months, Sociants every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Arial Mobile versus Sociants: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArial MobileSociants
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB67 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSecuritas Healthcare LLCPropulsa LLC

Customer experience

Arial Mobile

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Sociants

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Arial Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Sociants

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arial Mobile free?
Arial Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sociants free?
Sociants is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Arial Mobile or Sociants?
Sociants is rated higher. Arial Mobile averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Sociants averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Arial Mobile or Sociants have ads?
Neither Arial Mobile nor Sociants shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arial Mobile or Sociants?
Arial Mobile ships an update every 4 months, and Sociants every 3 weeks. Most recently, Arial Mobile was updated on June 1, 2026 and Sociants on June 2, 2026.

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