DoorBird vs Selara
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DoorBird
See, hear, and speak to visitors at your door from anywhere in the world. Receive instant notifications for doorbell presses and motion detection, ensuring you never miss a visitor or delivery. Securely unlock doors, garages, or gates remotely.
- Live HDTV video with night vision
- 2-way audio communication
- Worldwide mobile access
- Push notifications for visitors and motion
- Remote door, garage, or gate unlocking
- Visitor history
- Geofencing
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The DoorBird App provides mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations. Using the app, you can see and hear your visitors in real time, speak with them or unlock the door. When visitors press your doorbell, you receive a push notification on your iPhone or iPad and can immediately answer your door – from anywhere in the world. The DoorBird can also send instant alerts when a visitor triggers the built-in motion sensor. No matter if you are at home or not, you will never miss a visitor or a delivery. DoorBird's innovative IP technology was developed in Germany and is continuously improved through regular app and hardware updates. The system works in your local network (LAN) as well as outside of your home network environment without range limitation and securely encrypted over the Internet. DoorBird App Features for IP Video Door Stations: • Live HDTV video (ultra wide-angle camera lens, night vision) • 2-way audio communication • Worldwide mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations • Push notifications on your iPhone or iPad when the doorbell is pushed or the motion sensor is triggered • Configurable motion sensor • Free visitor history • Secure door, garage or gate opener via the app • Different ringtones for push notifications • Geofencing • App is optimized for portrait and landscape format • WiFi and Ethernet (PoE) • Smart Home and NVR compatible
Selara
This app helps you organize and track your prayer requests, allowing you to journal your thoughts and reflect on answered prayers. It fosters community through shared prayer circles and prioritizes user privacy with on-device encryption.
- Organize prayer requests by category
- Journal prayers via voice or text
- Track answered prayers
- Create shared Prayer Circles
- On-device encryption for privacy
- Customizable color themes
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Selara is a prayer journal designed for one thing: helping you remember what God has done. Bring every request to God—by category, by name, by burden. Log it, pray over it, and when the answer comes, mark it. Then look back and see the faithfulness you'd have forgotten. PRAY WITH INTENTION Organize prayer requests by category—health, family, guidance, gratitude, and more. Add notes, Scripture, and the names of people you're praying for. JOURNAL FROM YOUR HEART Speak your prayers out loud and let Selara's AI shape them into a journal entry—your words, your heart, no typing required. Or write it out the old-fashioned way. REMEMBER WHAT HE'S DONE Mark prayers as answered and build a living record of God's faithfulness. Faith grows when you remember. PRAY TOGETHER Create a Prayer Circle and invite your small group, family, or friends. Share requests, carry each other's burdens, and see how God moves in community. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your personal prayers are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. Not even we can read them. Your prayer life is yours. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from six color themes to make Selara feel like home. — Selah: pause, reflect, praise. Elorah: God is my light. Selara is both.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Selara at 100% against DoorBird's 37%. Selara also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). DoorBird's advantage is ratings volume (29K vs 5) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Selara holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoorBird has 29K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of DoorBird's written reviews are positive against 100% of Selara's.
DoorBird ships an update every 3 weeks, Selara weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoorBird | Selara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bird Home Automation GmbH | Allyson Hittinger |
Customer experience
DoorBird
Selara
Bugs and requests
DoorBird
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent connectivity and sync issues
- Unreliable device pairing and setup process
Requested features
4 requests- Siri/Google Assistant integration for voice control
- Improved push notification system with audible alerts
- Local storage option for video recordings
- Simplified app interface and settings
Selara
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DoorBird
No in-app purchases
Selara
No in-app purchases









