Comparison

Sentian vs Parket

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

Head to head
About

Sentian

This app provides advanced smart home security, offering real-time perception through sight, sound, and motion detection. It allows users to manage intruder alarms, control home automation, and view live or archived camera footage remotely.

Highlights
  • Real-time sight, sound, and motion detection
  • Intruder alarm system management
  • Home automation device control
  • Live and archived camera footage viewing
  • Push notifications for events
Features
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Sentian (Pty) Ltd is at the forefront of smart home security aiming to turn your property into an extension of yourself. To give it, and therefore you, perception through the senses of sight, sound and motion detection, among others. To make it ‘sentient’, giving you greater control and insight into the status of your property and your loved ones within, wherever you are. The Sentian app is the most advanced of the available user interfaces into the Sentian InTouch and OnSight home system with push notification support for all the events generated by your home. The app enables an owner or a user granted access to a Sentian enabled home, to interact with all the system capabilities including managing the intruder alarm system, control home automation devices, view and control cameras, camera archive footage and camera cloud event footage. NOTES: * The Sentian app is only usable by individuals with access to an estate running the Sentian InTouch and OnSight embedded system. * Some ISP's have DNS resolution issues for local WAN addresses, we then recommend changing your DNS provider to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 rather than the router assigned one.

About

Parket

This app offers a seamless and automated parking experience. It allows for license plate recognition for entry and exit, QR code scanning for access, and automatic payments via a linked card. Users can also book parking in advance at reduced rates for daily or monthly needs.

Highlights
  • Automated access via license plate recognition
  • QR code scanning for entry
  • Automatic payments with linked cards
  • Advance parking booking (daily/monthly)
  • Hourly parking tracking and rate breakdown
  • Direct customer support via app
Features
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Parket is committed to providing its users seamless automated access to parking lots as well as making payment as easy as possible. The parking industry uses outdated solutions to provide users access to parking lots. This results in unnecessary inconvenience in the form of waiting in lines to pay for tickets, waiting in queues when there is an issue exiting and lengthy waits when there is an issue with payment. Not only is the current ticketing system clunky and outdated but it is not sustainable. Get Automated Access With our licence plate reader all you have to do is load your licence plate onto your account via the app and our advanced imaging technology will automatically open for your vehicle when you approach the entry or exit boom. Scan For Access If the parking lot does not have licence plate recognition installed you can scan a QR code at the entry boom of the parking lot to gain access. No more tickets needed, just the power of your phone. Automatic Payments Load a card onto your account via the app. This card will allow you to make automatic payments when you exit the parking lot. Cheaper Parking Not only is our solution more seamless but it is cheaper for everyone involved as our system requires less hardware, which means we can offer cheaper parking compared to other parking lots, especially in and around Cape Town's CBD. Park As Long As You Want Need to park your car somewhere long term or need to make use of a parking lot on a daily basis but don't want to pay hourly rates that cost an arm and a leg? We offer the ability to book parking in advance at much lower rates. You can reserve a bay on a daily or monthly basis as you need. Hourly Parking Only need to park for an hour or two? Get access to any parking lot by scanning the QR code. Once inside you will be able to track your parking session via the app. We give you a detailed breakdown of how long you've stayed and the upcoming rates for the next hours. No longer will you need to keep track of where your ticket is! Full Customer Support If ever you need assistance, have questions or just want to give your feedback, Parket gives you the ability to get in touch with our support team directly via the app. This is part of our commitment to making parking for you as seamless as possible.

Screenshots

Sentian3 screens
Parket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Parket at 4.1 against Sentian's 3.7. Parket also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (68% vs 50%). 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

Parket holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Parket has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Sentian's written reviews are positive against 68% of Parket's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sentian ships an update every 2 months, Parket fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sentian versus Parket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSentianParket
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.1 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews68.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings321 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSentian (Pty) LtdPARKET (PTY) LTD

Customer experience

Sentian

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Parket

All ratings21 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.8%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative28.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sentian

No in-app purchases

None

Parket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sentian free?
Sentian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parket free?
Parket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sentian or Parket?
Parket is rated higher. Sentian averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Parket averages 4.1 from 21 ratings.
Do Sentian or Parket have ads?
Neither Sentian nor Parket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sentian or Parket?
Sentian ships an update every 2 months, and Parket fortnightly. Most recently, Sentian was updated on August 8, 2026 and Parket on September 5, 2026.

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