perma CONNECT vs SD Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
perma CONNECT
Manage all your lubrication points digitally from anywhere. Monitor and control systems remotely, adjust settings, and receive real-time alerts for critical changes. Optimize system configurations for safe and efficient maintenance.
- Digital lubrication point overview
- Remote monitoring and control
- Adjustable settings (discharge periods, PURGE)
- Real-time notifications for critical changes
- System on/off and location features
- Lubrication system history
- Optimal configuration calculation
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perma CONNECT The application for digital lubrication point management perma CONNECT provides you with a comprehensive overview of all your lubrication points. Our intelligent application ensures seamless access to critical lubrication point data at any time and from any location – even while on the go. By using perma CONNECT, you contribute significantly to improving safety within your organization, allowing for remote monitoring and control of perma lubrication systems in hard-to-reach or dangerous areas with ease and efficiency. In addition, the application enables you to quickly and safely adjust settings, such a discharge periods, or trigger additional discharges (PURGE) during operation. Thanks to perma CONNECT, you can effortlessly monitor critical changes in real time. Whether it is overpressure, an empty LC (Lubricant Cartridge), temperature deviations, or other issues, perma CONNECT provides you with real time notifications, ensuring you are well-equipped for prompt action. Depending on the specific requirements of the equipment, perma CONNECT allows you to turn the perma lubrication systems on and off, locate them via a signal, or view the history of each lubricator. Thanks to advanced calculation functions, perma CONNECT enables you to easily and reliably determine the optimal configuration for your lubrication systems in just a few steps. Take full advantage of these features and more to benefit from digital support for safe, intelligent, and future-oriented maintenance.
SD Connect
This app provides machine health insights directly from the shop floor. It helps prioritize maintenance, view live data, and check hardware availability to improve factory operations and asset performance.
- Predictive machine health solutions
- Live trending data visualization
- Hardware availability checks
- Shop floor data integration
- Prioritize maintenance activities
- Improve operational performance
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Predictively solve your greatest machine health challenges directly from the shop floor. SD Connect brings the problem-solving power of SMARTdiagnostics to a native mobile experience. Prioritize maintenance activities, view live trending data and check hardware availability to easily integrate shop floor insights with your machine health data for a complete picture of your factory environment. SD Connect connects machine health data to action to solve your asset problems permanently and reach peak operational performance
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: SD Connect at 21 against perma CONNECT's 2. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for perma CONNECT against 5.0 for SD Connect. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SD Connect has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
perma CONNECT ships an update fortnightly, SD Connect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | perma CONNECT | SD Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 226 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | perma-tec GmbH & Co. KG | KCF Technologies |
Customer experience
perma CONNECT
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In-app purchases
perma CONNECT
No in-app purchases
SD Connect
No in-app purchases
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