Rain Bird vs Current Luxury
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rain Bird
Control your sprinklers remotely from your mobile device. Automate watering schedules and adjust for weather conditions to conserve water and reduce costs. Compatible with various Rain Bird controller models.
- Remote sprinkler control
- Customizable watering schedules
- Automated weather adjustments
- Water and money saving
- Controller model compatibility
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Smart Watering Made Simple. Connect your Rain Bird controller to your mobile device to turn on sprinklers, set up customized watering schedules, and automate weather adjustments, saving you water and money. Compatible with the following Rain Bird controller models: ST8-WIFI ESP-TM2 ESP-RZXe ESP-Me ESP-ME3 RC2 ARC8 For more information: http://wifi.rainbird.com 1-800-RAINBIRD
Current Luxury
Manage your smart draperies and umbrellas with this app. Add new devices, create groups for simultaneous control, and set custom presets. Automate your home by scheduling device operations.
- Control draperies and umbrellas
- Add new devices
- Create device groups
- Use custom presets
- Schedule automatic operations
- Zigbee support
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Control your Current Luxury draperies and umbrellas. Add new devices to your account. Now with Zigbee support. Create groups of devices to control with a single command. Use presets to set multiple devices to preconfigured positions. Add a schedule to your presets to allow your devices to operate automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rain Bird at 4.7 against Current Luxury's 2.7. Rain Bird also leads on ratings volume (79K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Current Luxury's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 31%). On price, update cadence, 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.
Rain Bird holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rain Bird has 79K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Rain Bird's written reviews are positive against 67% of Current Luxury's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rain Bird ships an update every 2 months, Current Luxury every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rain Bird | Current Luxury |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (79K ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.2% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rain Bird Corporation | Current Products Company LLC. |
Customer experience
Rain Bird
Current Luxury
Bugs and requests
Rain Bird
Reported bugs
5 issues- Constant connection errors
- App crashes frequently
- Date/time not syncing correctly
- Seasonal adjustment not working as expected
- Manual controls not functioning properly
Requested features
6 requests- Add water usage history and analytics
- Allow pausing of individual zones
- Improve manual control options
- Add weather integration and smart scheduling
- Improve notification system
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- Add ability to turn off entire system remotely
Current Luxury
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rain Bird
No in-app purchases
Current Luxury
No in-app purchases
