Compare the Top Free Access Control Systems as of July 2025

What are Free Access Control Systems?

Access control systems are software and hardware systems that enable buildings and facilities to control who, how, and when employees, visitors, or residents can access a building, or a specific area within a property, facility or building. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Access Control systems currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    ID Flow

    ID Flow

    Jolly Technologies

    Print photo ID cards, encode smart cards, and link badges with access control systems with ID Flow ID card software and systems. Insert logos and artwork to make your card unique and branded to your company. ID Flow ID card designer app has all the tools to design ID card with ease to meet your needs. Include a photo on your ID badge design. Photos can be captured using a webcam or digital camera with ID Flow photo ID software. Automatically remove the background from photos and automatically crop them to best fit the ID card design. Capture signature and biometrics using any compatible USB biometric capture device, save the data in the record and print on the ID card. Include signature and fingerprint images on your card design for an extra layer of security. Capture fingerprints and signatures and include them on printed ID cards. Encode contact and contactless smartcard including Mifare.
    Starting Price: $400 per user per month
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    exacqVision
    Protect what matters with Exacq video surveillance solutions, integrated access control, and intelligent analytics. Designed for small, simple installations to larger, enterprise needs, Exacq video solutions provide security to meet your needs now and in the future. Since 2002, Exacq has built powerful and scalable video surveillance solutions with open platform software that's easy to integrate. Our products work in virtually every market and integrate with a variety of access control and video analytics software as well as thousands of IP cameras. With an Exacq video surveillance solution, you can connect cameras, add access points, and select the storage that fits your needs. Additionally, exacqVision software allows you to customize deep learning analytics to match your business needs. Keep your existing IP or analog cameras or upgrade to something new. From excellent quality video and cameras equipped with video intelligence and analytics to small, discreet devices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Sima

    Sima

    Active Witness

    Sima does more than just keep the bad guys out. Sima is a highly secure yet frictionless cloud-based Access Control reader. Sima has the ability to read both mobile credentials (QR codes) and facial biometrics. This allows the integrated cloud-based software to issue both single (QR only) and multi-factor (facial verification) for highly secure and customized facility access. We take your privacy very seriously. We use facial recognition technology to perform facial authentication. This allows us to verify identity and grant access to a location. Facial data will be stored on our servers only for the purpose of identification. Your personal data, including your face picture, will not be shared with third parties.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Pdk

    Pdk

    ProdataKey

    Pdk is the easiest to use, anytime, anywhere, fully integrated access platform. Regardless of the size of your business, pdk scales to your needs and makes access management easier than ever. Our platform was founded on the principle of simplicity without compromise. We engineered an entirely cloud-based access control platform that is easily configured and managed from any device. Pdk’s advanced hardware streamlines the installation process by delivering a true plug-and-play experience. Controller self-discovery, OSDP compatibility, onboard power, and system health monitoring make pdk the access control system trusted by installers around the globe.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SALTO KS

    SALTO KS

    SALTO Systems

    With SALTO KS you can send a Digital Key to anyone with a smartphone, so no need to hand over tags or even do a remote opening. Issuing and receiving access is much easier and more flexible. Integrate SALTO KS functionality into your existing app with Connect API or depending on your business needs build your own access control solution from scratch with Core API. No more managing mechanical keys. Simply grant access to individuals or groups for selected locks and timeframes. See who goes where and when, and block users on the go. It can be daunting to find the right access control fit to meet the needs of your business.
    Starting Price: Free
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    BlueDiamond
    With multi-technology readers, a feature-rich mobile app and the ability to support mobile and physical credentials, organizations can upgrade to the BlueDiamond™ experience at their own pace. The BlueDiamond mobile user experience enables employees to turn any smartphone into a device for effortless, touchless access. The BlueDiamond solution leverages Carrier’s 20 years of experience developing mobile credential technology. With over 4,000,000 Bluetooth® locking devices deployed across multiple industries – including Energy, Financial, Hospitality and Real Estate. LenelS2 is proud to be a part of the Carrier Healthy Buildings Program, which includes the BlueDiamond touchless access offering. Designed to work seamlessly with existing infrastructure and leverage open credentialing standards, BlueDiamond multi-technology access control readers are platform agnostic and support the standard output protocols.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Swiftlane

    Swiftlane

    Swiftlane

    Swiftlane combines convenience and high security to ensure every community is a safe, desirable place to live. Our cloud-based end-to-end smart technology provides access to every point in a building using face recognition access, mobile access, video intercom, visitor PINs, key card access, and voice-enabled unlock. At Swiftlane, we care deeply about protecting and elevating multifamily communities through smart access technology with features that provide safety, security, and peace of mind. What residents want and demand has drastically changed. Now, residents expect amenities like keyless entry, visitor access, and secure package and delivery management. Swiftlane is focused on solving the major challenges and pain points for the multifamily industry to ensure residents are happy and safe, investors are profitable, and property managers are operationally efficient. Swiftlane smart access technology provides safer, more secure access solutions for multifamily communities.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Latch

    Latch

    Latch

    The app that makes life in your space, personal and delightful. The most flexible access experience, dioramic controls, and concierge. A single management platform to control your spaces. Mission control, matter, and concierge ensure an elegantly orchestrated property is always at your fingertips. Whether you’re a distributor, integrator, service provider, delivery operator, hospitality brand, or technology company, Latch can be the right partner for you. We make spaces better places to live, work, and visit. LatchOS is a full-building operating system of software, products, and services designed to make every building better. Celebrating 100 million unlocks this year and announcing LatchOS2. LatchOS2 with dioramic controls and concierge, we will make even more spaces better places to live, work, and visit. Live, ensure, manage, and partner with Latch. Visit the Latch support site for quick answers and instructional articles.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Proptia

    Proptia

    Proptia

    Proptia provides all-encompassing visitor management, access control, license plate recognition, and intercom solutions. A seamless experience that is as powerful as it is flexible. Whether you’re managing a single commercial building or a sprawling community, Proptia offers the tools you need to get the job done—with ease, accuracy, and speed. Our Security Smart Intercom Units and Software are the ultimate solutions for modern security needs in guard-gated communities, residential hi-rise buildings, and commercial buildings. Our state-of-the-art intercom units offer seamless communication and access control, with video and audio capabilities, digital keys and pass, and remote management features. Our cutting-edge license plate recognition software and vehicle identification system offer advanced monitoring capabilities for both entry and exit points.
    Starting Price: Free
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    BlueID

    BlueID

    BlueID

    BlueID offers secure and flexible access control solutions and digital locking systems, providing simple, efficient, and future-proof access management. Their products support classic NFC transponders and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for unlocking via smartphone, ensuring compatibility with various authentication methods. The electronic door handle, for instance, is an elegant solution for wireless access control, suitable for both indoor and outdoor doors. BlueID's digital battery-powered lock cylinder is designed for indoor and outdoor use, supporting NFC and BLE technologies. Additionally, their wall reader allows flexible control of electronic door openers, barriers, turnstiles, elevators, and more. These solutions are highly reliable, easy to install and retrofit, feature modern user interfaces, and can be individually integrated with third-party systems. BlueID's access control systems are adaptable to various sectors, including office buildings, hotels, applications, etc.
    Starting Price: €5 per month
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    Parakey

    Parakey

    Parakey

    With Parakey you ensure that the right person, at the right time, has access to the right locked space, with a smartphone as a key. A super-easy way to manage mobile keys for all types of users, businesses, and business models, whether it's a single space or an entire property portfolio. Administration via the Parakey web portal or on autopilot via Parakey's incredibly many integration possibilities. The Parakey app does not require an internet connection to unlock. All Parakey devices are "offline" and are not connected to the internet. Administrate the single premise to the large real estate portfolio. Manage an infinite number of users, doors, and properties. Just like the demands and needs of the market, Parakey is in constant development and is continuously enriched with new functionality. It also increases security as you as an administrator have full control over who has a mobile key, to where and when, and you can take back a mobile key at any time.
    Starting Price: $36.79 per month
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    FEITIAN

    FEITIAN

    FEITIAN

    FEITIAN access control products provide robust and scalable solutions for managing and securing physical access to facilities, systems, and resources. FEITIAN access control solutions offer a comprehensive range of products designed to enhance security and streamline access management for organizations of all sizes. These solutions provide robust authentication and authorization mechanisms that ensure only authorized individuals gain entry to secured areas or resources. With advanced features such as biometric authentication, and smart card-based access control, FEITIAN empowers businesses to enforce stringent access policies, monitor activities, and protect sensitive assets. Whether it's securing physical facilities, controlling network access, or safeguarding critical data, FEITIAN's access control solutions provide reliable and efficient means of fortifying security, minimizing risk, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
    Starting Price: Free
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    IDEMIA

    IDEMIA

    IDEMIA

    IDEMIA is a global leader in identity technologies, specializing in biometrics and cryptography to provide secure and seamless interactions in both physical and digital environments. The company offers solutions across various sectors, including payment, connectivity, access control, public security, and travel, enabling secure transactions and identity verification for citizens and consumers worldwide. IDEMIA serves more than 600 government organizations and 2,400 enterprises, including some of the world's most influential brands. IDEMIA's mission is to unlock the world and make it safer by ensuring secure and trusted identities for all. Explore the innovation trends streamlining and securing interactions between people, objects, companies, governments, and everything in between, in the physical and digital worlds. And while connections and transactions are increasingly streamlined and seemingly effortless, we tap into cryptography expertise and leadership to ensure they are safe.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Leosac

    Leosac

    Leosac

    Leosac is a software company specialized into physical access control industry. We provide a scalable, modular and affordable open-source access control and credential provisioning solution. For individuals and from small to large companies, for trusted identities and physical access management that you are in control.
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