Comparison

DSC Connect vs Keeps

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

Head to head
About

DSC Connect

Upgrade your alarm system's communication to LTE and gain remote control over your home or business security. Arm, disarm, monitor status, bypass zones, and receive real-time event notifications. Review up to 12 months of event history and manage multiple locations from one account.

Highlights
  • Remote arm/disarm
  • System status monitoring
  • Zone bypassing
  • Real-time event notifications
  • 12-month event history
  • Multi-location control
Features
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Give a new breath to your PowerSeries and PowerSeries Neo panels. Upgrade Phone line, 2G or 3G communications to LTE and provide remote control to home or business owners with DSC connect solution Note: DSC Connect application requires an LE4050M (-US – CA – BR) cellular communicator by DSC, properly connected and configured with your PowerSeries or PowerSeries NEO panel, and valid account credentials. Feature availability varies based on system, equipment, and service plan. Contact your alarm installer for more information. DSC Connect will allow you to: • Remotely arm and disarm your PowerSeries and PowerSeries NEO alarm systems (supports Arm Stay, Arm Away and multiple partitions). • Monitor the status of your alarm system and specific zones. • Bypass zones. • Get real-time notifications for selected events. • Review 12 months of event history. • Control multiple locations from a single account.

About

Keeps

Features
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Keeps is a scoreboard for the games you play around a table. Every player gets a big colour panel with their score on it. Tap to add a point. Drag up or down and the number runs with your finger. Press and hold to move a player into the seat they're actually sitting in. That's the whole app — no setup, no sign-up, nothing to learn. A BOARD FOR EVERY GAME Keep cribbage on one board and euchre on the next. Each board has its own players, its own colours and its own scores, so a game you left half-finished is still there when you come back to it. MADE TO BE READ ACROSS A TABLE Panels lay themselves out to fill the screen, whether there are two players or ten, in portrait or landscape. Pick any colour you like for a player and Keeps works out a text colour that stays readable against it — so the number is legible from the far end of the table. WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL The whole app works offline. Not a reduced version of it: a game in a cabin scores exactly like a game at the kitchen table. KEEP THE GAMES YOU PLAY When you reset a board, Keeps offers to save it first. Saved games keep their players, colours and final scores along with the date, and you can start a fresh game from any of them with the same people. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Turn on iCloud sync and your boards follow you between your iPhone and iPad. It uses your own iCloud account, so your games are never stored on our servers — and there is still no account to make. EVERYONE CAN FOLLOW ALONG Put one device in charge of the board and hand out a code, a link or a QR code. Everyone else watches the score change as it happens, and only the host can change it, so nobody can knock the score out from under you. People without the app can watch too — the link opens a live, read-only scoreboard in any browser. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No friends lists, no profiles, no feed. No ads and no tracking. Your boards live on your device, and the only thing that ever leaves it is a board you deliberately choose to share, which holds nothing but the names and scores you typed in. KEEPS PREMIUM Keeping score is free, and always will be. Watching someone else's board is free. iCloud sync is free. Sharing a board of your own is Keeps Premium: a one-time purchase, not a subscription, with nothing to cancel.

Screenshots

DSC Connect4 screens
Keeps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DSC Connect at none against Keeps's 1. Keeps's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Keeps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DSC Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DSC Connect ships an update monthly, Keeps every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DSC Connect versus Keeps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDSC ConnectKeeps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (293 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings293 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTyco Safety Products Canada, Ltd.Rosser Labs

In-app purchases

None

DSC Connect

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Keeps

One-time1
  • Keeps Premium$6.99

Questions

Is DSC Connect free?
DSC Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keeps free?
Keeps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DSC Connect or Keeps have ads?
Neither DSC Connect nor Keeps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DSC Connect or Keeps?
DSC Connect ships an update monthly, and Keeps every 5 days. Most recently, DSC Connect was updated on November 4, 2026 and Keeps on October 29, 2026.

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