Best myControl® alternatives: apps like myControl®

myControl® is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to myControl®

Josh - Home Intelligence by Josh.ai Inc

Editor's Choice

4.8😊(115 ratings)

Free

Control your smart home with an AI-powered platform. Personalize your experience by adjusting settings, creating automations, and accessing devices from anywhere. Enjoy intuitive control through touch, text, and voice commands for the whole family.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive and easy to use
✨ Elegant and modern UI design
💡 Powerful scene creation
🗣️ Natural and effective voice control
🏠 Seamless home automation
🚀 Responsive app performance
🔒 Privacy-focused system
🔄 Frequent app updates
🏠 Controls home from anywhere
🤖 Advanced AI capabilities (mentioned by some)
🔌 Integrates with existing hardware

Room to Improve

🐛 App fails to load home
🗣️ Natural language processing issues
🧠 Lacks memory for device names
🎶 Music control is confusing
📱 UI changes inconvenient (button placement)
🔌 Requires hardware and license
🗣️ Inconsistent command communication
🏠 Device/room naming inconsistencies

Lutron RadioRA 2 + HWQS App by Lutron Electronics co., Inc.

Strong Contender

2.3😞(170 ratings)

Free

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Control your home's lights, shades, temperature, and more from anywhere. Personalize keypad buttons, schedule automated scenes, and receive low battery notifications. Requires a Lutron total home control system.

What We Love

✅ Hardware quality is excellent and reliable
🏠 Good HomeKit integration capabilities
📱 Works on iPhone when functioning properly
⚙️ Effective light control when app loads
🔌 Solid physical switch and device compatibility

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent crashes and app freezes
🐌 Extremely slow to load (5+ minutes reported)
❌ Unintuitive and clunky user interface
🔧 Limited customization without dealer intervention
📱 Poor iPad compatibility and responsiveness
🔌 Inconsistent device state display and sync issues
💰 Expensive system with bare-bones app experience
🚫 Lacks basic scene and schedule creation features
⚠️ Frequent connection failures and retry loops
🎨 Outdated visual design (looks like 2012)
📲 Apple Watch app crashes and is unusable
🔐 Requires password re-entry on each app open
⏱️ No timeout handling for stuck 'adjusting' state
🖥️ iPad wastes 50% screen space with poor layout
🔄 App fails to recognize manually toggled switches

Crestron Home by Crestron Electronics, Inc.

Crestron Residential Control

Worth Considering

3.7😐(108 ratings)

Free

Control your entire smart home from your mobile device. Manage lighting, climate, audio, video, shades, and security with intuitive controls and voice commands. Personalize your living spaces and create custom scenes for effortless automation.

What We Love

👍 Great app for controlling house aspects
👍 Intuitive and stable system
👍 Gold standard of automation
👍 Well-rounded and powerful system
👍 Amazing app for smart home installations
👍 Responsive and reliable interface
👍 Fantastic UI and speed
👍 Beautiful UI
👍 Awesome home control app
👍 Great user interface
👍 Step forward in Crestron world
👍 No more port forwarding needed
👍 Allows cloud-based programming

Room to Improve

🐛 Bug-ridden and terrible UX
🐛 Very slow connection
🐛 Remote function does not work
🐛 Limited functionality for expense
🐛 Outdated and clunky interface
🐛 Navigation feels like a chore
🐛 Slow and unresponsive
🐛 Questionable UX design
🐛 Connection always breaks up
🐛 Hard to get around and save schedules
🐛 Tablet functionality limited
🐛 Awful UI update
🐛 Comically large text size
🐛 Expensive mistake
🐛 Stuck in the eighties
🐛 Poor, unfunctional design
🐛 Too much empty white space
🐛 Too many clicks to find buttons
🐛 Redirects to old app

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