Trane BAS Operator vs Sonitrol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trane BAS Operator
Monitor and control your building's HVAC system remotely. View system status, manage alarms, and make adjustments to temperature and equipment settings to ensure optimal comfort and efficiency.
- View system status and graphics
- Manage active and historic alarms
- Acknowledge and comment on alarms
- Adjust setpoints and override equipment
- Remember connection information
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Check your building’s HVAC system to see the status, make adjustments, respond to hot/cold calls quickly and get more done in your day. The Tracer BAS Operator works with the Trane building automation system controller: Tracer SC version 3.6 and higher. The BAS Operator is fully integrated with Tracer SC – just log in to view your building! The Trane BAS Operator Features: Manage Alarms • See the active and historic alarms in your system, their severity and what generated the alarms. • Acknowledge new alarms and add comments for others to see • Keep the alarm log tidy with the delete alarm functionality View Status • See what’s happening in spaces, with equipment and entire systems. • Built-in graphics for easy to read status, at a glance, including animations. Take Action • Respond to hot/cold calls by adjusting setpoints, overriding equipment and occupancy. A feature of BAS Operator is it remembers the connection information for your connected devices. This is very helpful! However, when Updating to a new version, do not Un-install (or delete) the old version. Doing so will erase the device connection data.
Sonitrol
Remotely monitor and manage your security systems. Search facilities on a map, control arming status, view event history, manage users, and access live video feeds for enhanced security and operational oversight.
- Remote facility search via map or text
- Manage system arming status
- View and filter historical events
- Manage system users
- View live video feeds
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With this new, powerful app, Sonitrol now provides users the capability to remotely and securely search for their facilities via map or text, manage system arming status, view and filter historical events, manage system users, and view live video. Whether you are a regional manager for a retail chain and want to verify what time this evening all your systems armed, as well as check video to verify that all new sales displays have been set up properly, or you are the principal of the local elementary school and want to create a new system user for a recently-hired maintenance supervisor starting next week. For these user needs and so many like them the Sonitrol Mobile app is an effective, efficient and highly accessible tool for the local business or as well as for large regional and national organizations. About Sonitrol The industry leader in verified electronic security, Sonitrol’s patented impact audio technology and integrated access control have the capability to verify the presence of intruders or authenticate valid entrants to a facility. Sonitrol has the fastest police response times, lowest false alarm rates and best apprehension rates in the security industry…171,433 criminals caught and counting. Note: A Central Station hosted Sonitrol system and a valid mySonitrol web user account with Mobile Application permissions are required to use this app. Required iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
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Verdict
Trane BAS Operator and Sonitrol are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.4 for Trane BAS Operator against 2.3 for Sonitrol. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of Trane BAS Operator's written reviews are positive against 30% of Sonitrol's.
Trane BAS Operator ships an update every 3 months, Sonitrol every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trane BAS Operator | Sonitrol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (45 ratings) — better | 2.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.0% of reviews — better | 30.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRANE U.S. INC | 3xLOGIC Systems Inc. |
Customer experience
Trane BAS Operator
Sonitrol
In-app purchases
Trane BAS Operator
No in-app purchases
Sonitrol
No in-app purchases
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