Lowkey vs Contactless Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lowkey
Control your apartment or condo buzzer remotely from your smartphone. This app allows you to manage access for guests, share entry with multiple users, and receive security notifications without any physical installation.
- Remote buzzer control
- Share access with multiple users
- Schedule access by time/day
- Receive guest arrival notifications
- View activity history
- Forward calls to multiple phones
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Securely control your apartment or condo buzzer from your phone! No installation required, works with all buzzer systems which dial a phone number. How it works 1. Purchase a subscription in the Lowkey app to receive a virtual number 2. Send the virtual number to your apartment or building manager to have the buzzer dial this number rather than your personal phone 3. That's it! Start using Lowkey to control your buzzer With the Lowkey app, you can: SHARE • Forward calls for buzzer access to multiple phones • Add multiple users to a single account. Great for roommates, multiple tenants, etc. ACCESS • Unlock for a specified time • Share passcodes for private access • Schedule weekly access by time and day SECURITY • Receive push notifications when guests arrive • View activity history • Revoke access at any time Unlock convenience with Lowkey.
Contactless Access
Control custom hardware, such as BLE-enabled contact switches, directly from your iPhone. This application enables interaction with devices installed in elevators and automatic doors, allowing you to operate them remotely.
- Control custom BLE hardware
- Operate elevators remotely
- Open automatic doors
- iPhone and iPad compatible
- Contactless interaction
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This app allows users to interact with our custom hardware using an iphone Our custom hardware is a BLE enabled contact switch. Our custom hardware can be installed in elevators and automatic doors. This App allow users to operate those elevators and doors from their phone
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Contactless Access at 5.0 against Lowkey's 4.3. Contactless Access also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Lowkey's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 50%) and ratings volume (37 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Contactless Access holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lowkey has 37 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Lowkey's written reviews are positive against 50% of Contactless Access's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lowkey | Contactless Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ORDINARY LLC | Ke Wang |
Customer experience
Lowkey
Contactless Access
Bugs and requests
Lowkey
Reported bugs
2 issues- App can't debounce numbers correctly (e.g., '1' as '11')
- Guest passcode not working for some users
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for Apple Shortcuts
- Add interactive widget support
- Fix guest passcode issues
- Improve clarity on incoming call numbers (distinguish from spam)
Contactless Access
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lowkey
No in-app purchases
Contactless Access
No in-app purchases
