Microsoft 365 Admin vs Smart Sentry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microsoft 365 Admin
Manage your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 business subscription from your mobile device. Add users, reset passwords, manage devices, and monitor service health. Stay informed with critical notifications and support requests on the go.
- Manage users and groups
- Reset passwords
- Manage devices
- Assign licenses
- Create support requests
- Monitor service health
- Receive critical notifications
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Manage users, groups, devices, reset passwords & receive critical notifications. The Microsoft 365 Admin App enables you to be productive from anywhere. The app allows you to receive critical notifications, add users, reset passwords, manage devices, create support requests, and more—all while you’re on the go. Who should use this app? People with an admin role to a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 enterprise or business subscription. What can I do with this app? - Add, edit, block, or delete users, reset passwords, assign roles, or manage aliases & devices. - Add groups, edit groups, and add or remove users from groups. - View all available and assigned licenses, assign licenses to users, add or remove licenses, view and download invoices. - Check the status of existing support requests, take actions on them, or create new ones. - Monitor the health of all services and view active incidents in Service Health. - Stay on top of all the upcoming changes and announcements via the Message Center feed. - Get push notifications about important information related to service health, message center, and billing. The app supports dark theme and is available in 39 languages. And if you're someone who is responsible for managing more than one tenant, you can sign-in to multiple tenants and quickly switch between them. We're listening and constantly improving the app based on your feedback. Tell us what you like, what we can do better, and what features you'd like to see in the app. Send your feedback to feedback365@microsoft.com.
Smart Sentry
This app transforms your existing security camera system into a proactive monitoring solution using AI-powered video analytics. Receive real-time alerts, manage their status, and view live camera feeds directly from your mobile device.
- Real-time security alerts
- Alert status management
- Review closed alerts
- Live camera view
- Arm/Disarm cameras
- Notification control
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Sentry AI is the global leader of AI-powered video analytics solutions for physical security and public safety. Sentry AI connects with your legacy security camera system and transforms it into a proactive monitoring system. Smart Sentry AI App is an application for Mobile users (System owner, manager, on duty roaming guard) to receive real-time alerts on your phone and interact with Sentry AI Smart Surveillance Platform. What you can do with the Smart Sentry AI app: - Receive real-time alerts from your Sentry AI account with details: time, location, status, log. - Update alerts status: Accept, add a note, feedback, and close alerts. - Review recently closed alerts. - Manage your account login, changing password. - Mute/Unmute app notifications. - Live View - Arm / Disarm Cameras
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Microsoft 365 Admin at 78% against Smart Sentry's 0%. Microsoft 365 Admin also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (5.8K vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Microsoft 365 Admin holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft 365 Admin has 5.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Microsoft 365 Admin's written reviews are positive against 0% of Smart Sentry's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microsoft 365 Admin | Smart Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.8K ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.8K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | Smart Home Sentry, Inc |
Customer experience
Microsoft 365 Admin
Smart Sentry
Bugs and requests
Microsoft 365 Admin
Reported bugs
4 issues- Blank screen on launch
- User list disappearing
- Unreliable login process
- Notifications not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to purchase licenses
- More granular admin controls
- Improved search and filtering
- Better integration with other Microsoft apps
- Dark mode support
Smart Sentry
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microsoft 365 Admin
No in-app purchases
Smart Sentry
No in-app purchases
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