Sentian vs SOLRBOOST
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
SOLRBOOST
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sentian | SOLRBOOST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sentian (Pty) Ltd | SolrBoost Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
Sentian
No in-app purchases
SOLRBOOST
No in-app purchases









