AirPatrol SmartHeat vs Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirPatrol SmartHeat
Transform your iPhone into a smart thermostat for your home heating system. Monitor and adjust temperatures remotely from anywhere in the world, saving money on energy bills. Control up to 10 heating zones independently.
- Remote heating control
- Monitor home temperature
- Save on energy bills
- Control up to 10 zones
- Adjust setpoint temperatures
- Set automatic timers
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AirPatrol SmartHeat app turns your iPhone into a remote control for your home heating. This intuitive and beautifully-designed application works together with AirPatrol SmartHeat system. Be a pioneer in modern home heating and download AirPatrol SmartHeat app to: - Control and monitor your home heating from anywhere in the world - Save money. Intelligent control of home heating lowers your energy bills. - Control up to 10 zones. AirPatrol SmartHeat is capable of controlling 10 room units from one central unit. This means you can have 10 different zones. - Check current temperature in each room, adjust setpoint temperature or set up automatic timers. AirPatrol SmartHeat system is suitable for any home as it uses wireless room units and it can be installed with any type of main heating (air-to-water, gas, pellet, etc.). You only need water-based underfloor heating with actuators and that's it. More information about AirPatrol SmartHeat system can be found here: http://www.airpatrol.eu/shop/airpatrol-smartheat/
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
This open-source tunneling client provides a secure and efficient way to route all your traffic to a remote server. It supports various server configurations and offers features like automatic server selection and usage monitoring.
- User-friendly interface
- Optimized and fast performance
- Automatic lowest ping and load balancing
- Usage information display
- One-click sublink import
- Easy user sublink switching
- Supports multiple protocols and server types
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Hiddify is an open source software available in https://github.com/hiddify/Hiddify-app with more than 26K stars in Github. The key goal of Hiddify is to provide a secure, user-friendly and efficient tunnelling client. It enables you to route all traffic to a remote server of your choose, utilising VPN-Service permission. Note: We do not provide any server; users are required to ensure their online activities stay private by using use their own self-hosted server or trusted servers. We support servers with: - Hiddify Profile - Normal V2ray/Xray Connection Profile Link - Clash Connection Profile Link - Sing-Box Connection Profile Link What is our unique features? - User Friendly - Optimized and Fast - Automatically select LowestPing , LoadBalance - Show user usage information - Easily import sublink by one click using deeplinking - Free and No ADS - Easily switch user sublinks - more and more Support: - XHTTP, Mieru, Naive, Wireguard - All Protocols supported by Sing-Box - VLESS + xtls reality, vision - VMESS - Trojan - ShoadowSocks - Reality - V2ray - Hystria2 - TUIC - SSH - ShadowTLS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AirPatrol SmartHeat at 100% against Hiddify Proxy & VPN's 70%. AirPatrol SmartHeat also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (8.4 vs 15.5). Hiddify Proxy & VPN's advantage is chart position (#204 vs unranked). 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.
AirPatrol SmartHeat ships an update every 6 weeks, Hiddify Proxy & VPN every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirPatrol SmartHeat | Hiddify Proxy & VPN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (863 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 69.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 863 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #204 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.4 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AirPatrol OUe | Holistic Resilience |
Customer experience
AirPatrol SmartHeat
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Bugs and requests
AirPatrol SmartHeat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on certain iOS versions
- Connectivity issues on some devices
Requested features
2 requests- Control center integration
- Background running mode
In-app purchases
AirPatrol SmartHeat
No in-app purchases
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
No in-app purchases
Questions
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