Guarding Master vs AK
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guarding Master
This app provides a remote management platform for security providers to monitor and configure customer security systems. It offers a unified solution for video, intrusion, access, and intercom devices, enabling remote problem resolution and customization.
- Remote device and system configuration
- Monitor system health status
- Resolve problems remotely
- Customize security solutions
- Unified security device management
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Guarding Master is a convergent security solution that helps security providers or installers to manage services for customers. You can monitor the system health status of your customers’ sites – even resolving problems – remotely, using a simple and reliable platform. Guarding Master solution enables you to customize security solutions for customers with fully-converged security device, covering video, intrusion, access, intercom, and more. (If you are an end user, please download Guarding Vision APP for remote device management.) What are the Benefits: 1.Remote Device and System Configuration. 2.Install DVR/NVR/access and other security products via app and portal.
AK
This app helps installers manage projects, devices, and users efficiently. It simplifies installation, configuration, and maintenance tasks for smart intercom and smart home kits. Access a knowledge base for device information directly within the app.
- Project management
- Device management
- User management
- Site management
- Smart intercom kit integration
- Smart home kit integration
- Knowledge base access
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AK-Partner is a mobile application designed for installers, with the goal of improving efficiency in installation, configuration, and daily maintenance tasks. It simplifies the management of projects, devices, and users for our partners. It can manage sites, devices, and users, and allows the addition of Akuvox Smart Intercom Kit Sites and Akubela SmartHome Kits. Additionally, it incorporates the Akuvox Knowledge Base into the app, providing users with easy access to information for browsing and reading device-related materials.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Guarding Master at 11 against AK'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 Guarding Master against 5.0 for AK. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guarding Master has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guarding Master | AK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 明军 顾 | AKUVOX (XIAMEN) NETWORKS CO., LTD. |
Customer experience
Guarding Master
AK
In-app purchases
Guarding Master
No in-app purchases
AK
No in-app purchases
