Comparison

StandUp vs Hotel Sentry

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

Head to head
About

StandUp

This app helps you break sedentary habits by reminding you to stand and move. It uses your phone's motion sensor to detect prolonged sitting and sends gentle notifications. Unlock advanced features like custom reminders and detailed statistics with a Pro subscription.

Highlights
  • Automatic sitting detection
  • Smart reminders
  • Snooze functionality
  • Pause detection
  • Custom sitting threshold
  • Repeat reminders
  • Custom active hours
  • Statistics
Features
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StandUp helps you break the habit of sitting too long by reminding you to stand up and move throughout your day. HOW IT WORKS StandUp uses your phone's motion sensor to detect when you've been sitting still. When it's time to move, you'll get a gentle notification reminding you to stand up and stretch. FEATURES • Automatic sitting detection • Smart reminders when it's time to stand up • Snooze — need 5 more minutes? No problem • Pause detection when not needed STANDUP PRO Unlock the full potential of StandUp: • Custom sitting threshold (15–120 minutes) • Repeat reminders until you stand up • Custom active hours — remind only during your schedule • Weekday/weekend scheduling • Full statistics — daily, weekly & monthly sitting history Whether you're at the office, working from home, or studying, StandUp is your personal health assistant to help you move more and sit less. Long periods of sitting are linked to serious health risks. Take a small step today — stand up more with StandUp. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Hotel Sentry

Features
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Hotel Sentry turns a spare iPhone into a room guard. Leave the old phone plugged in on the desk of your hotel room and arm it. It listens for the pressure change a door makes when it opens, the sound of a knock or a handle, and any movement of the phone itself. When enough of those add up, your own phone and Apple Watch get an alert — with a photo of the room, taken at that moment. WHY A SPARE PHONE That drawer phone already has a barometer, a microphone, an accelerometer and a camera. It is a better sensor than most travel alarms you can buy, and it costs nothing to reuse. HOW IT DECIDES Hotel Sentry does not fire on a single noise. It scores signals over a rolling ten-second window: • Air-pressure blip — the signature of a door opening in a closed room • Recognised sound — a door, a knock, or speech • Sound spike above the room's own noise floor • Vibration of the phone • The phone being picked up — an instant alert After you arm it, the app spends a minute learning the room: the air-conditioning rhythm, the background noise level, the resting vibration. That calibration is why weather changes and a humming HVAC do not wake you at 3 a.m., but a door does. Choose Low, Medium or High sensitivity to match the room. ON YOUR PHONE AND WATCH • Live status: armed, calibrating, disarmed or offline, with the sentry's battery • Alerts with a photo, and optionally the ten seconds of sound before the trigger • Remote controls: arm, disarm, take a photo now, or sound the siren • A Lock Screen Live Activity and Home Screen widget while the room is guarded • An offline warning if the room phone is unplugged or switched off • A reminder if you leave the hotel without arming, and automatic disarming when you come back THE SENTRY SIDE • A near-black kiosk screen that hides what the phone is doing • Disarm with a long press and a PIN — three wrong tries alerts you with a photo • Optional siren and flashlight strobe as a deterrent • A setup checklist: charger, volume, Guided Access, and Shortcuts automations that reopen the app by themselves PRIVACY BY DESIGN There is no Hotel Sentry server and no account. Your two devices talk through your own private iCloud database. Photos and clips are yours alone — the developer cannot see them, because there is nowhere for them to arrive. No analytics, no tracking, no subscription. You can also share access with someone on a different Apple Account by showing them a QR code. WORKS ON iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 and later, so an iPhone 6s still makes a fine sentry), Apple Watch, and Mac. FREE TO TRY Install free on both devices and arm the sentry three times, with everything switched on. After that, a single one-time unlock keeps it arming forever — no subscription, ever. Watching a room someone else is guarding stays free. WHAT YOU NEED Two Apple devices signed into the same Apple Account (or a QR invitation), and a charger for the room phone. Hotel Sentry is a helpful extra pair of eyes, not a replacement for a hotel safe, a door lock, or common sense.

Screenshots

StandUp4 screens
Hotel Sentry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Hotel Sentry at 4 against StandUp's 2. Hotel Sentry also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. StandUp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month and Hotel Sentry sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StandUp versus Hotel Sentry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStandUpHotel Sentry
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer浩东 许Andrei-Costin Neagoe

In-app purchases

3 purchases

StandUp

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$3.491 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$17.491 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$9.99
1 purchases

Hotel Sentry

One-time1
  • Hotel Sentry Pro$9.99

Questions

Is StandUp free?
StandUp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hotel Sentry free?
Hotel Sentry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StandUp or Hotel Sentry have ads?
Neither StandUp nor Hotel Sentry shows ads.

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