Josh vs KOHLER Konnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Josh
Control your smart home with AI-powered assistance. Personalize your interface, create automations, and manage connected devices from anywhere. Designed for intuitive control for all family members.
- AI-powered smart home control
- Personalize home intelligence experience
- Create automations and alerts
- Manage connected devices remotely
- Intuitive control via touch, text, voice
- Adjust floor plans and nickname devices
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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.
KOHLER Konnect
Control and personalize your smart bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Monitor water and energy usage to optimize efficiency and streamline daily routines. Requires compatible KOHLER Konnect products.
- Personalize bathroom and kitchen routines
- Preset modes for convenience
- Monitor water usage
- Monitor energy usage
- Optimize efficiency
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KOHLER® Konnect technology elevates life’s everyday tasks and routines in the bathroom and kitchen by providing a greater level of personalization and efficiency through preset modes. Become informed about your product’s water and energy usage to optimize efficiency. With KOHLER Konnect, you can further streamline and enrich your daily routines in the most frequently used rooms in your home, the bathroom and kitchen. To use this application, you must have one or more KOHLER Konnect products connected to your home WiFi network. See kohler.com/kohlerkonnect for additional details. For a full list of features, visit KOHLER.com/KohlerKonnect. Questions? Visit KOHLER.com/KohlerKonnect or call Kohler Customer Care at 800-4KOHLER (800-456-4537), M–F 8am–5pm CT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Josh at 87% against KOHLER Konnect's 13%. Josh also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). KOHLER Konnect's advantage is ratings volume (605 vs 115) and iOS requirement (16.0 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, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KOHLER Konnect has 605 ratings behind it against 115, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 13% of KOHLER Konnect's.
Josh ships an update every 11 days, KOHLER Konnect every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | KOHLER Konnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 3.9 (605 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 13.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 | 605 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 294 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Kohler Co. |
Customer experience
Josh
KOHLER Konnect
User reviews
Josh
From 115 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- ✨ Elegant and modern UI design
- 💡 Powerful scene creation
- 🗣️ Natural and effective voice control
- 🏠 Seamless home automation
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)
KOHLER Konnect
From 605 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Improved connectivity
- 👍 Easier to get connected
- 🚀 Excellent control experience
- 👍 Unexpected convenience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly disconnects
- 🐛 Unreliable app
- 🐛 Glitchy and poor UI
- 🐛 Slow and unstable
- 🐛 Constantly logs out
Bugs and requests
Josh
Reported bugs
5 issues- App completely fails to load home
- Natural language processing fails to recognize simple commands
- App has zero memory
- Josh doesn't consistently communicate commands
- Music control is confusing and unintuitive
Requested features
6 requests- Improve music control interface
- Allow device name changes
- Enhance memory for device names
- Improve natural language processing for commands
- Better scene creation based on habits
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- Control all lights in a room at once
KOHLER Konnect
Reported bugs
6 issues- Constant connectivity issues
- App fails to connect to devices
- Frequent app crashes
- Unreliable device pairing
- Incompatibility with certain WiFi setups
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- Inconsistent app performance
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to control more smart home devices
- Preset customization options
- Siri/HomeKit integration
- Alexa integration improvements
- Ability to control water volume in finer increments
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- Notification improvements
- Ability to control more aspects of the connected devices
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
KOHLER Konnect
No in-app purchases
