Comparison

Gate Sentry vs Highline Fast

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

Head to head
About

Gate Sentry

Streamline visitor access for guarded properties using mobile software. Manage guest lists remotely, receive arrival notifications, and enable security personnel to grant access in seconds.

Highlights
  • Eliminates costly hardware
  • Mobile and tablet software integration
  • Remote guest list management
  • Real-time security guard updates
  • Arrival notifications
  • Visitor history access
  • Fast visitor lookup
Features
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Gate Sentry is revolutionizing visitor access management for guarded properties by eliminating traditional and costly hardware, such as scanners and computers, which significantly slow down the visitor entry process. Our approach utilizes mobile and tablet software to establish a direct link between users and security personnel, ensuring the most accurate visitor lists. The app enables users to manage their guest lists from anywhere, at any time, on any device, providing real-time updates to the security guard software for a seamless and efficient access control process. Users receive arrival notifications and can access a visitor history entry list. Furthermore, our security tablet software consolidates all activities into a single, streamlined tool with advanced search capabilities, allowing security staff to quickly locate visitors based on various criteria and dramatically reducing visitor access time to 5 seconds or less.

About

Highline Fast

Manage your smart home network with advanced controls. Features include robust parental controls, guest network creation, usage monitoring, and enhanced network security for a safer online environment.

Highlights
  • Parental controls
  • Guest network creation
  • Network usage monitoring
  • Network security
  • Smart home management
Features
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Control your smart home experience with Highline Fast by Highline Internet. Fully manage your network with parental controls, creating guest networks, monitoring network usage, and network security.

Screenshots

Gate Sentry4 screens
Highline Fast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Gate Sentry at 11K against Highline Fast's 193. Gate Sentry also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Gate Sentry against 4.7 for Highline Fast. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gate Sentry has 11K ratings behind it against 193, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Gate Sentry's written reviews are positive against 48% of Highline Fast's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gate Sentry ships an update every 3 weeks, Highline Fast every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gate Sentry versus Highline Fast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGate SentryHighline Fast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (11K ratings) — better4.7 (193 ratings)
Positive reviews54.6% of reviews — better47.8% of reviews
Number of ratings11K — better193
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB138 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGate SentryHighline Internet

Customer experience

Gate Sentry

All ratings10,520 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive54.6%
Neutral13.4%
Negative32.0%

Highline Fast

All ratings191 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral0.5%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive47.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative47.8%

User reviews

Gate Sentry

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🔒 Improves security
  • 👍 Convenient for residents
  • 👍 Helpful notifications

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy date/time feature
  • 🐛 Login issues after updates
  • 🐛 Crashes on newer devices
  • 🔍 Limited name/character input

Highline Fast

From 193 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Phenomenal internet quality
  • 👍 Great customer support
  • 👍 Fast internet speeds
  • 👍 Intuitive app design
  • 👍 Device prioritization options

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App is slow and crashes
  • 🐛 App frequently not functioning
  • 🐛 New version is worse
  • 🐛 App has bugs and glitches
  • 🐛 App doesn't work most of the time

Bugs and requests

Gate Sentry

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App not opening after recent update
  • Login not working on new iPhones
  • Notifications not displaying guest details

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow special characters and spaces in names
  • Implement calendar-based date selection
  • Add support for company/vendor names
  • Enable recurring visitor scheduling

Highline Fast

Reported bugs

22 issues
  • App crashes
  • App is slow
  • App never functions properly
  • App constantly slow
  • App has lots of bugs
Show 17 more
  • App doesn't work most of the time
  • App unable to load for days
  • Black screen with warning
  • App saying 'no activity' when there has been
  • App freezing constantly
  • App barely functions
  • New update removed settings
  • App forgotten hardware
  • Pause a device rarely works
  • App unstable
  • App crashes on iPhone 14
  • GE lightbulb connection issue
  • App dysfunctional
  • Internet unstable
  • App useless with own router
  • App will not allow old router to be deleted
  • App requires router to be onboarded

Requested features

3 requests
  • App needs to be updated
  • Program should be on desktop, not phone app
  • App update would be nice

In-app purchases

None

Gate Sentry

No in-app purchases

None

Highline Fast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gate Sentry free?
Gate Sentry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Highline Fast free?
Highline Fast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gate Sentry or Highline Fast?
Gate Sentry is rated higher. Gate Sentry averages 4.8 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Highline Fast averages 4.7 from 193 ratings.
Do Gate Sentry or Highline Fast have ads?
Neither Gate Sentry nor Highline Fast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gate Sentry or Highline Fast?
Gate Sentry ships an update every 3 weeks, and Highline Fast every 3 months. Most recently, Gate Sentry was updated on November 6, 2026 and Highline Fast on November 3, 2026.

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