ALICE Staff vs Glowing.io
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ALICE Staff
This utility app is designed exclusively for staff members of properties using the ALICE platform. It facilitates communication and task management for hotel and residential property personnel.
- Staff communication
- Task management
- Property staff tool
- Internal operations
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The ALICE Staff application has been created for the staff of ALICE's customer properties. **This application if not for the guests or residents staying at any of its customer properties.
Glowing.io
This platform connects hotels and resorts with guests via their preferred messaging apps and languages. It facilitates real-time communication throughout a guest's stay, improving operational efficiency and guest engagement.
- Multi-channel messaging
- Multi-lingual guest communication
- Cloud-based platform
- Message assignments and escalation
- Bi-directional language translation
- Global guest profiles
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Glowing.io is the world’s first multi-channel, multi-lingual mobile messaging platform that enables hotels and resorts around the world to text and mobile message their guests in whatever messaging platform each guest prefers (ex: SMS, WeChat, Messenger and many others), AND in the language each guest prefers. No new apps for guests (easy). 100% cloud-based for properties (easy). Glowing.io enables in-the-moment communication with guests, pre-, during and post-stay through messaging. Further, Glowing.io increases operational efficiency, as well as drives ancillary guest spend. Finally, Glowing.io helps to dramatically increase engagement with "digital" travelers as well as with "silent" guests who are "silent" because they are busy, foreigners or because they simply prefer non-verbal communication. Key Glowing.io features include: - Cloud-based using modern web technologies - Messages assignments and escalation - Groups messaging - Moments (auto) messaging - Global guest profiles - Staff-2-staff messaging - Bi-directional language translation - Benchmarking - Message timeline Used by leading luxury, lifestyle and resort properties around the world to increase guest engagement, increase guest satisfaction, increase operational efficiency, and drive guest spend.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Glowing.io at 5.0 against ALICE Staff's 2.6. Glowing.io also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). ALICE Staff's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 2). 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.
Glowing.io holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ALICE Staff has 84 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ALICE Staff ships an update every 3 months, Glowing.io monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALICE Staff | Glowing.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FIVEPALS, LLC | Glowing, Inc. |
Customer experience
ALICE Staff
Glowing.io
In-app purchases
ALICE Staff
No in-app purchases
Glowing.io
No in-app purchases
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