Affiliated vs USALink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Affiliated
Access dealer accounts and customer information remotely to improve service and productivity. Manage accounts, view site details, and utilize eContract functionality for digital signatures.
- Remote account access
- Customer information viewing
- Account status monitoring
- Event history access
- DocuSign eContract integration
- Site information viewing
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The Affiliated Dealer App is the best way to access Affiliated accounts when dealers or technicians are in the field – improving customer service while increasing your productivity. The app is the easiest way to put accounts on test, view a live feed of test signals and take an account off test, all in moments and all from your mobile device. Search for customers, view recently accessed accounts and view accounts in alarm or on test. Within any account you can view site information, event history, contact lists, system details, zones and agency information. Our exclusive DocuSign integration enables eContract functionality that lets you get end-user agreements signed directly from the app.
USALink
Manage your monitoring station accounts with this iOS app. Access account summaries, site history, and make various edits to site and device data. View action plans, site changes, and detailed metric graphs.
- View account summary
- Access site history
- Place sites on test
- Edit site and contact phones
- Edit site and device data
- View action plans and site changes
- Metric graphs and signal scroll
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USALink is a feature rich iOS application for customers of USA Central Station that gives full access to their monitoring station accounts. View account summary, site history, place sites on test, edit site and contact phones, edit site data, edit device data, edit configuration, edit site notes, view action plans, view site changes, metric graphs, signal scroll and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: USALink at 3.0 against Affiliated's 2.5. USALink also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Affiliated's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and ratings volume (40 vs 7). 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.
USALink holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Affiliated has 40 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Affiliated's written reviews are positive against 0% of USALink's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Affiliated ships an update every 2 months, USALink every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Affiliated | USALink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (40 ratings) | 3.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Affiliated Monitoring | USA Central Station |
Customer experience
Affiliated
USALink
In-app purchases
Affiliated
No in-app purchases
USALink
No in-app purchases
