Josh vs BeoLiving
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.
BeoLiving
Control your smart home devices, including Bang & Olufsen audio and TV systems, lights, and cameras. Manage home automation devices like Lutron and Philips Hue, and create custom scenes for single-tap control. Remote access is available with the Pro version.
- Control Bang & Olufsen audio/TV
- Manage smart lights and curtains
- View security cameras
- Integrate with Lutron, Nest, Hue
- Create custom scenes
- Remote access (Pro mode)
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A finely crafted app that works as the interface to your smart home, which can control your Bang & Olufsen audio and TV systems, move curtains, dim lights, view cameras and do much more. The BeoLiving app is the companion of the all new BeoLiving Intelligence controller in either Essential or Pro mode. With BeoLiving Intelligence Essential you can integrate your Bang & Olufsen products. An upgrade to BeoLiving Intelligence Pro elevates the BeoLiving app allowing further integration to home automation devices like Lutron, Nest, Ecobee, KNX, Philips Hue, among many others. An extra added feature is remote access, meaning full command outside your home WiFi network. The BeoLiving app allows you to directly setup and control products as well as define user customizable scenes so you can control, with just a single tap, various devices at once. Requirements: - BeoLiving Intelligence controller in the same network as your iOS device. - Bang & Olufsen products connected via the BeoLink network. Please contact your Bang & Olufsen dealer for details on installation and compatibility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Josh at weekly against BeoLiving's every 2 months. Josh also leads on ratings volume (115 vs 9). BeoLiving's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (15.6 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 — 4.8 for Josh against 4.9 for BeoLiving. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Josh has 115 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 100% of BeoLiving's.
Josh ships an update weekly, BeoLiving every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Josh | BeoLiving |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 9 |
| 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 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Khimo |
Customer experience
Josh
BeoLiving
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
BeoLiving
No in-app purchases
