Comparison

Sentian vs SOLRBOOST

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

SOLRBOOST

Features
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Mobile Application for SolrBoost customers. Customers can register for push notifications, see their loadshedding schedules as well as historical messages sent to them.

Screenshots

Sentian3 screens
SOLRBOOST4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sentian and SOLRBOOST are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sentian versus SOLRBOOST: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSentianSOLRBOOST
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSentian (Pty) LtdSolrBoost Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Sentian

No in-app purchases

None

SOLRBOOST

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sentian free?
Sentian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SOLRBOOST free?
SOLRBOOST is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sentian or SOLRBOOST have ads?
Neither Sentian nor SOLRBOOST shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sentian or SOLRBOOST?
Sentian ships an update every 2 months, and SOLRBOOST every 2 months. Most recently, Sentian was updated on August 8, 2026 and SOLRBOOST on September 9, 2026.

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