Comparison

DMSS vs Randhawa

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

Head to head
About

DMSS

Monitor your home security with real-time video surveillance and instant alarm notifications. Play back recorded footage, share access with family, and manage devices like intercoms and access control systems remotely.

Highlights
  • Real-time live video view
  • Video playback by date and event
  • Instant alarm notifications
  • Device sharing with permissions
  • Alarm hub for various sensors
  • Visual intercom and access control
Features
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The DMSS app can enhance your security management efficiency. You can watch real-time surveillance videos and play them back anytime, anywhere, via Wi-Fi or cellular networks. If a device alarm is triggered, DMSS will immediately push an instant notification to you. DMSS offers: 1. Real-time Live View: You can view real-time surveillance videos from the added devices anytime, anywhere, to help you better monitor the safety of your home environment. 2. Video Playback: You can quickly find the events you care about by date and event category, and playback the required historical video footage. 3. Instant Alarm Notifications: You can subscribe to different alarm events according to your needs. When an event is triggered, you will immediately receive the message notification. 4. Device Sharing You can share the device with family members for shared use and assign them different usage permissions. 5. Alarm Hub You can add a variety of peripheral accessories to the alarm hub to provide warnings for potential theft, intrusion, fire, water damage, and other situations. In case of an unforeseen event, DMSS can immediately activate alarms and send out danger notifications. 6. Visual Intercom You can add visual intercom devices to engage in video calls between the device and the DMSS, as well as perform functions like locking and unlocking. 7. Access Control You can add access control devices to check the current status of doors and view unlock records, as well as perform remote unlocking operations on the doors.

About

Randhawa

This app marks your current location with a dot each time you open it, creating a unique visual representation of your life's journey. View your history on a traditional map or as an abstract constellation, with a widget for your home screen. It prioritizes privacy by only accessing location when open and storing data locally.

Highlights
  • Location dot marking
  • Map view
  • Constellation view
  • Home Screen widget
  • Lock Screen widget
  • Private data storage
  • No background tracking
Features
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Randhawa draws the map of your life, one dot at a time. Carry your phone and the map draws itself. Each time your phone notices you have gone somewhere, Randhawa marks a dot there and draws the line from the last one. Slowly, the ink becomes something no one else could make: your places. Home darkens into a blot. The roads you take every day darken too. Trips trail off the edge like sparks. Open the app and it marks a dot where you are, the way it always has. New in 3.2: the ink. The map is redrawn as blots where you stayed and threads where you moved, all translucent, so repetition is what darkens. Today is drawn on top in orange, the live line over everything before it. Tap a blot and Randhawa tells you what the place is called, how often you were there and what you kept there. Slide the sparkles button and the map fades under the ink until only the constellation is left, on a real projection you can still zoom. Memories: tap the plus button, or open a place, and write down what it deserves to remember, with a photo from your library or straight from the camera. Memories live as gold dots on your map, and one made on this date in an earlier year wears a light around it, right where it happened. And if you also use Bhullar, our time app, the same memories resurface there on the day they become anniversaries. Randhawa gives them a place; Bhullar gives them a time. Add the widget and your map lives on your Home Screen, drawn with the same ink, growing every time a dot lands. Yours, even on your next phone: • Turn on iCloud sync and your moments and memories are kept in your private iCloud, which we cannot read • Get a new phone, sign in, and your map comes back • Export your map as one file whenever you like; it is yours • No account to create. No password. Your Apple Account is the account. Private by architecture, not by promise: • The map draws itself only after you say yes to iOS's own location prompt, and iOS asks again before background access becomes permanent • It listens only for the low-power signals iOS gives a sleeping app when you have actually moved, so it never runs continuously and never keeps your phone awake • Answer While Using only, and Randhawa falls back to a dot each time you open it • Your data lives on your device and, only if you choose, in your own iCloud. We run no servers and can see none of it. • No tracking. No analytics. No ads. • Forget the trail, or erase everything everywhere, any time, with one tap Randhawa cannot be rushed and cannot be faked. It simply gets better the longer you live with it. Carry it wherever you go, and watch your map appear.

Screenshots

DMSS4 screens
Randhawa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Randhawa at none against DMSS's 10. DMSS's advantage is ratings volume (79K vs 1) and chart position (#121 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DMSS sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Randhawa asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Randhawa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DMSS has 79K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DMSS ships an update every 10 days, Randhawa weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
DMSS versus Randhawa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDMSSRandhawa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (79K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings79K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#121 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size472 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDongBinRandhawa Inc.

Customer experience

DMSS

All ratings78,697 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews3,838 reviews
Positive88.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative8.2%

Randhawa

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

Bugs and requests

DMSS

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inconsistent connection and playback issues
  • Notifications not working as expected
  • Time/date display problems
  • Crashes and freezes when using certain features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to turn cameras on/off individually within the app
  • Faster forward/rewind options for playback
  • Custom notification sounds
  • More flexible scheduling and notification settings
  • Improved integration with other smart home/security devices

Randhawa

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

DMSS

One-time10
  • Monthly Basic Plan$3.49
  • Monthly Basic Plan - Dual-lens$6.90
  • Monthly Pro Plan$6.99
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  • Monthly 4G Data Plan$10.00
  • Monthly Pro Plan - Dual-lens$13.90
  • Annual Basic Plan$34.99
  • Annual Basic Plan - Dual-lens$69.90
  • Annual Pro Plan$69.99
  • Annual 4G Data Plan$90.00
  • Annual Pro Plan - Dual-lens$139.00
None

Randhawa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DMSS free?
DMSS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Randhawa free?
Randhawa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DMSS or Randhawa?
Randhawa is rated higher. DMSS averages 4.8 out of 5 from 79K ratings, while Randhawa averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DMSS or Randhawa have ads?
Neither DMSS nor Randhawa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DMSS or Randhawa?
DMSS ships an update every 10 days, and Randhawa weekly. Most recently, DMSS was updated on November 5, 2026 and Randhawa on October 30, 2026.

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