Josh vs Crestron Go
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.
Crestron Go
Control your smart home or workplace with a customized, intuitive interface. This app offers dynamic navigation, real-time feedback on various systems, and a sleek look consistent with mobile devices.
- Customizable user interface
- Dynamic navigation (swiping, knobs, sliders)
- Real-time feedback on system status
- Scalable buttons, sliders, and gauges
- Momentum scrolling toolbars and menus
- Support for Apple Super Retina display
- Integration with Crestron VC-4
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Whatever you do with your mobile device, you want the experience to be intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable. With the Crestron Go app, your Crestron dealer can provide you with a thoroughly satisfying and intuitive user interface, customized to meet your exact control needs in the home, workplace, classroom, or for any specialized application or market. Crestron Go leverages spectacular Crestron Smart Graphics™ to enable dynamic navigation that includes swiping, knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists. It includes a full set of scalable buttons, sliders, knobs, and gauges for controlling virtually any function with real-time feedback of audio settings, lighting levels, room temperature, and security system status. With Crestron Go, you get toolbars and menus that scroll with momentum at the flick of a fingertip, giving you easy access to all your controlled devices, functions, and media content. Crestron Go affords a look and feel that’s consistent with the mobile smart device experience, yet uniquely your own. With support for the Apple Super Retina® display, your UI will look its best, while support for the Crestron VC-4 gives you a centralized server based alternative to individual hardware based control systems in every room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Josh at 87% against Crestron Go's 10%. Josh also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Crestron Go's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Crestron Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Josh asks for nothing beyond the download.
Josh holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 115 and 99 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Josh's written reviews are positive against 10% of Crestron Go's.
Josh ships an update weekly, Crestron Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | Crestron Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better | 2.2 (99 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 99 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | Crestron Electronics, Inc. |
Customer experience
Josh
Crestron Go
Bugs and requests
Josh
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Crestron Go
Reported bugs
27 issues- App crashes on iOS 16.4.1
- Project upload fails from VTProe
- Black screen on rotation or app re-launch
- App freezes upon opening
- App crashes constantly, especially on rotation
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- App hangs and crashes on iOS 16
- Keyboard not working in landscape mode
- Cannot enter credentials on new iPhone
- App breaks with OS 16 upgrade
- Family sharing not working
- WiFi IP address changing on new iPhone
- Volume bar not working
- App not working after transferring to new iPhone
- Settings page not showing completely
- Restore purchase directs to pay again
- App freezes when switching between apps
- Connection failures
- Cannot restore purchase through family share
- App fails to acknowledge prior in-app purchase
- Endless loop when migrating to new iPhone
- iTunes error during purchase recovery
- App stopped working after phone restore
- App doesn't work with new iPhone
- Intermittent issues with new iPhones
- App not working at all
- Setup issues on new iPhone
- App crashes before start
Requested features
9 requests- Fix restore purchase functionality
- Enable family sharing
- Improve app stability on new iOS releases
- Address keyboard issues in landscape mode
- Ensure settings transfer to new devices
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- Provide better consumer support
- Update app more frequently
- Fix volume bar functionality
- Improve app intuitiveness
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
Crestron Go
- Crestron Go - Default$99.99








