Josh vs QMotion QSync
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.
QMotion QSync
Control QMotion motorized shades directly from your iOS device via your home WiFi network. Group shades for simultaneous operation and adjust them with precision. Requires a QSync hardware control unit.
- Control Gen 2 and Gen 3 QMotion shades
- Operate shades as groups
- Automated shade raising and lowering
- Move shades to preset positions
- Touch control for fine adjustment
- Connects via in-home WiFi network
- Sync settings across multiple devices
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Control QMotion® Gen 2 and Gen 3 award winning motorized shades directly from your device. Operate shading as groups. Automated shades may be raised or lowered, moved to preset position, or even moved using touch control for finer adjustment. Please note: This app will NOT control QMotion shades using ZigBee HA1.2, the Qube, or QIS hardwired shades. This app connects with your QSync hardware device using your in-home WiFi network for an easy way to control the motorized shades in your home. Select the QSync device you want to connect to, create one or more groups to put your shades in, and you're ready to go! Any iOS iPhone or iPad device that you connect to this box may also be synced up with your QSync® device, so you only have to create a group once and you're able to use it on all devices that are connected. Requires purchase and installation of the QSync control unit, which then must be connected to a network router.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Josh at 90% against QMotion QSync's 0%. Josh also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). QMotion QSync's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18). 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.
Josh holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. 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. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 0% of QMotion QSync's.
Josh ships an update weekly, QMotion QSync every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | QMotion QSync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (114 ratings) — better | 1.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | THE WATT STOPPER, INC. |
Customer experience
Josh
QMotion QSync
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
QMotion QSync
No in-app purchases
