Josh vs BrightVault
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.
BrightVault
This app manages a luxury residential energy storage system. It offers custom, modular solutions for smart homes, integrating with leading home automation systems for endless energy automation possibilities.
- Luxury residential energy storage
- Custom modular system
- Home automation integration
- Energy automation possibilities
- Smart home management
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The BrightVault Energy Storage System is the first energy storage system designed for the Luxury Residential market. A custom, modular, energy storage system is the only sensible solution for a custom home. With the ability to integrate with the leading home automation systems already in the home, the energy automation possibilities are endless.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Josh at every 11 days against BrightVault's every 5 weeks. Josh also leads on ratings volume (115 vs 6). BrightVault's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 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.
BrightVault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Josh has 115 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Josh ships an update every 11 days, BrightVault every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Josh | BrightVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josh.ai Inc | BrightVault, LLC |
Customer experience
Josh
BrightVault
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
BrightVault
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Josh
No in-app purchases
BrightVault
No in-app purchases
Questions
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