Comparison

Vine Smart Control vs Overhead Long Beach

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

Head to head
About

Vine Smart Control

Control your home's temperature with a programmable schedule for unlimited settings across different hours, days, and weeks. Receive alert messages for abnormal temperature changes and instantly adjust your smart thermostat settings.

Highlights
  • Programmable temperature schedules
  • Unlimited settings
  • Temperature alert messages
  • Instant thermostat adjustment
Features
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1.Program a schedule of unlimited temperature settings for different hours, days, and weeks 2.Alert messages for abnormal changes in room temperature 3.Instant Smart Thermostat (ST) temperature setting

About

Overhead Long Beach

Features
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Quieter skies, signed by you. Overhead is a free, neighborhood-built app for residents who live under the Long Beach Airport flight path. One tap captures an overhead plane, the time, your location, your altitude estimate, and the actual decibel level of the noise. Then — when you're ready — Overhead opens your own Mail app with a pre-filled report addressed to the right people. You review it. You hit Send. The complaint goes out from your account, in your name, as constituent correspondence. That last part matters. In January 2026, a court tossed out a neighborhood lawsuit demanding stricter enforcement of LGB's noise ordinance. The judge ruled the city only has to act on noise it can individually prove. One resident, one email, one signed concern is exactly that. Anything an app sent on your behalf would land as "just an app" and get filtered out — yours can't. WHO THIS IS FOR California Heights, Bixby Knolls, Los Cerritos, and the rest of the neighborhoods that hear flight schools doing touch-and-go loops over their backyards from 6:30 AM to 11:45 PM. If that's you, this app was built for you. WHAT YOU GET • Tap to capture: photo or up to 8 seconds of video • Live decibel meter measures the actual noise level on capture • ADS-B + registry lookup pulls the aircraft's tail number, type, and owner/operator when available • Time, location, altitude, and ordinance status are recorded automatically • One-tap dispatch: opens your Mail app with the report pre-addressed • Real map of every report you've sent, color-coded by ordinance status • Compile any month into a single PDF for AAC public comment • Works offline — reports queue locally and send when you're back online PRIVACY THAT'S ACTUALLY PRIVATE Overhead has no visible account, no ads, and no analytics SDKs. Your full reports, photos, videos, decibel readings, coordinates, and notes live on your phone unless you choose to send a report through Mail. The app also sends a tiny anonymous tally row to our Supabase backend so the public observatory can count neighborhood activity. No tracking, no advertising IDs, no third-party analytics. NOT AFFILIATED with the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport, the FAA, or any government body. Overhead is an independent civic-tech project built by neighbors who got tired of waiting.

Screenshots

Vine Smart Control4 screens
Overhead Long Beach3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Overhead Long Beach at every 2 days against Vine Smart Control's every 3 months. Vine Smart Control's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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

Vine Smart Control ships an update every 3 months, Overhead Long Beach every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vine Smart Control versus Overhead Long Beach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVine Smart ControlOverhead Long Beach
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (121 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews6.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings121 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZIBO (XING CONNECTED) INFOTECH INC.Alexander Saldivar

Bugs and requests

Vine Smart Control

Reported bugs

41 issues
  • App crashes constantly
  • App not responding
  • Thermostat settings change without user input
  • App does not show actual ambient temperature
  • App goes offline frequently
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  • Date and time do not update
  • Temperature doesn't update on phone
  • Cannot connect remotely after update
  • App fails to connect to thermostat
  • App not working after uninstall/reinstall
  • App does not correctly show thermostat settings
  • App shows change but doesn't update itself
  • Wi-Fi connection issues
  • App crashing often
  • Date and time do not stay correct
  • Cannot adjust temperature in app
  • Cannot set date & time
  • Cannot register for account
  • App requires frequent reinstallation
  • Software kinks causing issues
  • Cannot login, username/password not recognized
  • App not working with latest iOS
  • Parameter error messages
  • Thermostat locked, requires unplugging
  • App doesn't notice commands
  • Cannot connect to Wi-Fi
  • Device and app stopped communicating
  • Time zones incorrect
  • Multiple phones cannot connect
  • Thermostat goes offline via app
  • App disconnects from Wi-Fi
  • Server issues
  • White font on white background
  • Missing 'next' button
  • App resets itself
  • Login errors
  • Thermostat constantly drops Wi-Fi
  • App shows offline
  • Login timeout
  • Wi-Fi cutting off
  • Expired security certificate

Requested features

4 requests
  • Fix app crashing issues
  • Improve app user-friendliness
  • Add coloring to the mobile app
  • Implement geo-fencing

Overhead Long Beach

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Vine Smart Control

No in-app purchases

None

Overhead Long Beach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vine Smart Control free?
Vine Smart Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Overhead Long Beach free?
Overhead Long Beach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vine Smart Control or Overhead Long Beach have ads?
Neither Vine Smart Control nor Overhead Long Beach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vine Smart Control or Overhead Long Beach?
Vine Smart Control ships an update every 3 months, and Overhead Long Beach every 2 days. Most recently, Vine Smart Control was updated on October 15, 2026 and Overhead Long Beach on October 12, 2026.

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