Comparison

X vs SmartPanics

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

Head to head
About

X

Control your X-28 home alarm system remotely through your iPhone. This app offers a practical and dynamic way to manage your security from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Remote alarm system control
  • iPhone compatibility
  • Dynamic user interface
  • Supports specific X-28 equipment
Features
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Esta aplicación fue especialmente diseñada para que los usuarios de sistemas de comunicación celular de alarmas para casa de X-28, puedan utilizarlos de forma práctica y dinámica a través de su iPhone. - Esta aplicación puede utilizarse para cualquiera de los siguientes equipos: COM20-MPXH, MPI COM20-MPXH

About

SmartPanics

This safety monitoring platform provides personal and group emergency alerts with location, photos, and audio. It includes features for panic buttons, virtual guardians, vehicle tracking, and security camera visualization.

Highlights
  • Panic buttons with location, sound, and images
  • Virtual guardian with route and time control
  • GPS tracking for vehicles
  • Security camera visualization and control
  • Family group tracking with geofencing
  • External Bluetooth SOS button support
Features
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SmartPanics is the ideal platform to provide you with personal monitoring safety, either individually or as a family or corporate group. The App is connected to a service provider with a monitoring center, in a private security company or in a public government organization and sends alerts with map location, photos, audios and video clips as evidence of the event. The app provides you: - Police, fire and medical panic buttonswith geographic position notification, soundand images of your emergency (MY ALARMS) - Management of your alarm panels including activations and deactivations (MY ACCOUNTS) - Virtual guardian that accompanies you from one place to another with route and time control. (ON MY WAY) - GPS Tracking of all your vehicles (MY VEHICLES) - Visualization and control of your video security cameras (MY CAMERAS) - Reception of all your events and alerts by PUSH messages (MY MESSAGES) - Tracking and monitoring of your family group, geofence entry and exit, monitoring of maximum speeds, inactivity and cell phone battery status (MY GROUP) - Programmable alerts report to the control center (MY ALERTS) - Cell phone location if it has been stolen, from the SmartPanics of another member of your group. - Use of an external bluetooth SOS button connected to the cell phone Your chosen service provider will give you a QR code to activate the APP in the monitoring center or you will be able to choose a provider if you do not have one yet, from the same APP. Once your APP is activated you will be able to add all the members of your group from there by creating your own QRs for them SmartPanicsis free, it has no extra charge note even the APP. To test the full functionality we recommend you to download TrySmartPanics For additional information please contact us at https://monitoringsoft.com/portfolio/smartpanics/

Screenshots

X4 screens
SmartPanics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SmartPanics at 50% against X's 16%. X's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X ships an update every 8 days, SmartPanics monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
X versus SmartPanics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXSmartPanics
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews16.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperX-28SoftGuard Technologies LLC

Customer experience

X

Written reviews50 reviews
Positive16.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative74.0%

SmartPanics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

X

No in-app purchases

None

SmartPanics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is X free?
X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartPanics free?
SmartPanics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do X or SmartPanics have ads?
Neither X nor SmartPanics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X or SmartPanics?
X ships an update every 8 days, and SmartPanics monthly. Most recently, X was updated on October 24, 2026 and SmartPanics on October 10, 2026.

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