Josh vs StruXure
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.
StruXure
Effortlessly manage your motorized pergolas and louvered structures with voice commands or automated schedules. Control multiple devices, create custom scenes, and access your outdoor living space from anywhere. A demo mode is available to explore features before purchase.
- Voice control with Amazon Alexa
- Control up to 16 RTS channels
- Integrate with 3rd party systems
- Create custom scenes
- Automated scheduling
- Remote access
- User access sharing
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The Struxure™ Outdoor app provides simplified control of Somfy’s Radio Technology Somfy® (RTS) motorized pergolas and luxury louvered structures from the convenience of your iOS devices for convenient sunlight management anytime, anywhere. With the Struxure™ Outdoor app, you can: - Link with Amazon Alexa for convenient voice control - Control up to 16 channels of RTS motorized products per interface - Integrate RTS products with IFTTT, Crestron, Control4, Savant and other 3rd party control systems - Create Scenes for easy control of multiple motorized products - Create Schedules to automatically activate your motorized products at a certain time of day, day of the week, or by sunrise and sunset - Add more Struxure™ Outdoor Wi-Fi to RTS Interfaces for multiple zone control - Control your motorized products both at home and away - Easily share access with other users - Demo mode: includes an integrated demo mode for users to experience the app before purchasing the Wi-Fi to RTS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Josh at 4.8 against StruXure's 4.3. Josh also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 50%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). StruXure's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Josh holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 115 and 104 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 50% of StruXure's.
Josh ships an update weekly, StruXure every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Josh | StruXure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 4.3 (104 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 104 |
| 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 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Somfy Systems Incorporated |
Customer experience
Josh
StruXure
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
StruXure
No in-app purchases
