Comparison

Smart Building vs Crestron Beacon Setup Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Smart Building

Features
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Empower your residential community! Connect with your neighbours, report maintenance, gardening and security issues to your Body Corporate, and be in-touch with important ICE contacts immediately, all with the Smart Building app! Get your residential community and your building smart, get Smart Building!

About

Crestron Beacon Setup Pro

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The Crestron PinPoint personal productivity app makes scheduling, organizing, and navigating your way through the day easier, faster, and more efficient. The My Day card helps you gain better insight into how much of your time is booked in meetings. The Productivity card alerts you to back-to-back or conflicting meetings. PinPoint can even give you a quick street view of your meeting location, and provides directions using the Apple® Maps app. Sign in to PinPoint to leverage even more capabilities such as BYOD wireless presentation with Crestron AirMedia® and automation through PinPoint Proximity Detection Beacons. The Setup application makes it possible to quickly create a hierarchy of sites, buildings and rooms. This app can optionally provision Crestron PP-100 beacon tags and link them to a room for enhanced functionality.

Screenshots

Smart Building4 screens
Crestron Beacon Setup Pro1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Smart Building at monthly against Crestron Beacon Setup Pro's every 3 months. Crestron Beacon Setup Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Building ships an update monthly, Crestron Beacon Setup Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Smart Building versus Crestron Beacon Setup Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart BuildingCrestron Beacon Setup Pro
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiShack Digital ConsultancyCrestron Electronics, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Smart Building

No in-app purchases

None

Crestron Beacon Setup Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Building free?
Smart Building is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crestron Beacon Setup Pro free?
Crestron Beacon Setup Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smart Building or Crestron Beacon Setup Pro have ads?
Neither Smart Building nor Crestron Beacon Setup Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Building or Crestron Beacon Setup Pro?
Smart Building ships an update monthly, and Crestron Beacon Setup Pro every 3 months. Most recently, Smart Building was updated on October 14, 2026 and Crestron Beacon Setup Pro on October 26, 2026.

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