ALICE Staff vs DirectKey™ Toolkit
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.
DirectKey™ Toolkit
This utility app allows users to commission, manage, and troubleshoot DirectKey™-enabled locks and BlueDiamond™ readers. It is designed for hospitality and commercial access control applications, requiring authorization and PIN codes for operation.
- Commission DirectKey™-enabled locks
- Manage BlueDiamond™ readers
- Troubleshoot access control hardware
- Mobile access management
- Requires authorization and PIN codes
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DirectKey Toolkit is a mobile application to commission DirectKey™-enabled locks and BlueDiamond™ readers for use in hospitality and commercial access control applications. DirectKey Toolkit is used to install, manage, or troubleshoot locks and wall readers fitted with a DirectKey Bluetooth® module or BlueDiamond broker. DirectKey Toolkit requires an authorization code and Personal Identification Number (PIN) code for operation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DirectKey™ Toolkit at 3.0 against ALICE Staff's 2.6. DirectKey™ Toolkit also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). ALICE Staff's advantage is review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and ratings volume (84 vs 9). 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.
DirectKey™ Toolkit holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ALICE Staff has 84 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of ALICE Staff's written reviews are positive against 0% of DirectKey™ Toolkit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALICE Staff | DirectKey™ Toolkit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (84 ratings) | 3.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FIVEPALS, LLC | Onity |
Customer experience
ALICE Staff
DirectKey™ Toolkit
In-app purchases
ALICE Staff
No in-app purchases
DirectKey™ Toolkit
No in-app purchases
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