EdiLife vs SmartAI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EdiLife
Easily monitor and control your Edimax smart home devices remotely. Access live video feeds, manage appliances, and receive motion-activated alerts from any 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Enjoy simple setup with Plug-n-View technology.
- Remote device control
- Live video streaming
- Environment monitoring
- Motion detection alerts
- Power consumption tracking
- Two-way audio support
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EdiLife is an easy-to-use app for Edimax smart home device, ideal for monitoring environment or controlling your home appliance from any 3G or Wi-FI connection. With Edimax’s innovative Plug-n-View technology, you can say goodbye to inconvenient and complicated setting procedures. It’s extremely easy to connect your Edimax network camera/smart plug to the cloud in just a few simple steps and access it remotely with a smartphone, tablet, or computer no matter where you are. Features of the EdiLife iPhone app: 1. Easy, intuitive setup and network management 2. Location-based group management 3. Live video viewing from any 3G or Wi-Fi connection 4. Easily manage your home electronics anywhere/anytime 5. Monitor power consumption of your home electronics 6. Motion activated snapshots 7. Adjust brightness, saturation, sharpness, video quality and pan & tilt speed settings remotely*1 8. Push notifications supported 9. Remote pan and tilt control*1 10. Video events supported*2 11. Two way audio supported*3 *1 For pan/tilt supported models *2 For video event supported models *3 For two way audio supported models Supported Edimax devices: 1. IC-3116W 2. IC-3140W 3. IC-3210W 4. IC-5150W 5. IC-5160GC 6. IC-5170SC 7. IC-6220DC 8. IC-6230DC 9. IC-7112W 10. IC-7113W 11. IC-9110W 12. IC-9110W V2 13.SP-1101W V1 14.SP-2101W V1
SmartAI
This app connects and controls various smart home devices, including robot vacuums, cameras, and pet feeders. It allows for remote management, scheduling, and real-time monitoring of your connected IoT products from anywhere.
- Control multiple SmartAI IoT devices
- Remote control from anywhere
- Schedule robot vacuum cleaning
- Real-time mapping and obstacle tracking
- Monitor pets via smart camera and feeder
- Personalized app control
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SmartAI, founded in 2016, is focused on creating high-quality and beautifully designed the internet of things products that intelligently work together to provide your more easily controlled, connected, enjoyable, wonderful life from wherever or whenever you might be. The SmartAI app is a simple and powerful app which design for all SmartAI IOT products, which include robot vacuum cleaner, smart camera, pet feeder, smart lamp, etc. Follow the simple onscreen instructions to add your SmartAI IOT products: 1. Intelligent app of SmartAI robot vacuum cleaner, pet feeder, smart camera and other IoT products； 2. Control multiple devices, one app to manage multiple SmartAI IoT devices. 3. Personalised app control, just a click, you can remote control your SmartAI IOT products anywhere. 4. The app can schedule robot cleaner recurring cleaning at anytime, schedule cleaning, review history and get notification in this app. 5. The app can do real-time mapping, track robot cleaner exactly movements and obstacles it meets. 6. Connect to smart camera and pet feeder, watch your pet on smart camera and feed it by smart feeder at same time. SmartAI app tries to make it all amazingly simple for everyone. “Simply smarter, reliably intelligent” is our passion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartAI at 4.6 against EdiLife's 1.9. SmartAI also leads on ratings volume (71 vs 15) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). EdiLife's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 20 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
SmartAI holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 71 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of EdiLife's written reviews are positive against 17% of SmartAI's.
EdiLife ships an update every 3 months, SmartAI every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EdiLife | SmartAI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (15 ratings) | 4.6 (71 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 71 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | EDIMAX | Dongguan Dipusi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
EdiLife
SmartAI
In-app purchases
EdiLife
No in-app purchases
SmartAI
No in-app purchases
