Josh vs InstallAssist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Josh
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.
- AI-powered smart home control
- Personalize home intelligence
- Create automations and alerts
- Access property from anywhere
- Intuitive touch, text, and voice commands
- Customizable dashboards and interfaces
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Josh.ai: AI powered smart home control. Powered by Josh.ai's award winning software platform AI OS, the Josh App provides seamless access to your connected devices and dynamic tools to personalize your home intelligence experience to the fullest. Refine administrative settings, adjust a home's floor plan, nickname devices, create automations and alerts, and add custom photos to your bespoke interface. Access your property from anywhere and easily navigate to what's important. Simply swipe from the Interactive Home Page to access custom dashboards, areas, devices, and scenes. The Josh.ai platform is designed to empower every member of the family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance through touch, text, and natural voice commands. Note: The Josh App requires a valid software plan and accompanies Josh hardware, which is exclusively available through certified home technology professionals. Visit www.josh.ai for more information.
InstallAssist
This app streamlines the process of adding Z-Wave devices to a smart home system without requiring an internet connection. It allows for quick installation of devices in the field, eliminating the need to contact technical support. Once internet service is activated, the system automatically discovers and integrates other smart home components.
- Add Z-Wave devices offline
- Quick field installation
- Automatic device discovery
- Integrates with ClareHome system
- Eliminates need for tech support calls
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The Clare Controls Install Assistant App is designed for quickly adding Z-Wave devices to a home that does not have an internet connection or a project in Fusion. This App makes it possible to add Z-Wave devices to the ClareHome system with a CLIQ.mini in the field. Calling tech support is a thing of the past. After the homeowner activates their preferred internet service, ClareHome will connect to our cloud server to create the account and auto-discover other devices such as audio, thermostats, cameras, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Josh at weekly against InstallAssist's every 2 months. Josh also leads on ratings volume (114 vs 4). InstallAssist's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Josh against 5.0 for InstallAssist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Josh has 114 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Josh ships an update weekly, InstallAssist every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | InstallAssist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (114 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Clare Controls |
Customer experience
Josh
InstallAssist
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
InstallAssist
No in-app purchases
