Comparison

Savant vs Marvin Home

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

Head to head
About

Savant

Effortlessly manage your entire smart home from lighting and climate to entertainment and security. Personalize your environment with custom scenes and schedules, and gain intelligent control over your home's energy usage. Monitor and manage power consumption, even with solar panels or backup batteries.

Highlights
  • Unified smart home control
  • Customizable scenes and schedules
  • Real-time lighting visualization
  • Intelligent energy monitoring
  • Remote security access
  • Multi-room audio/video control
Features
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It’s the app that all other smart home apps have been modeled after. Innovative and beautifully designed, the Savant Pro app is the easiest and most intuitive way to manage your smart home. Control your lighting, climate, entertainment and security with a single app on your iOS device. Savant is the only smart home platform that also allows you to monitor and manage how power is used throughout your home. UNIQUE AND PERSONAL Get ready for next-level personalization. Automate your home with Savant Scenes to capture the perfect music, climate, lighting and security for every occasion. Create a schedule around your Savant Scenes or activate them manually using your voice, iOS devices, in-wall touch panels, Savant Pro Remotes, and keypads. The Savant Pro app also lets you customize your views—your rooms and home become the app, and with Savant’s award-winning TrueImage feature, you can visualize your lighting in real-time with images that update live as you adjust the settings. LIGHTING FOR LIFE Savant’s patented Daylight Mode adjusts color temperature to match the sun throughout the day, harmonizing with your natural circadian rhythm. And our impeccably designed keypads let you recall different lighting scenes that you’ve created in the app with just a single touch. INTELLIGENT CONTROL OVER ENERGY USE The Savant Power System is a truly smart energy solution that gives you personalized control over energy consumption, whether you’re 100% on the grid or you have solar panels, a generator or a backup battery. The Savant Power System lets you monitor and prioritize different electrical loads across your home, manage consumption during a grid outage, and gain insights about your historical usage. SECURITY AND SAFETY FROM ANYWHERE With Savant, you can control locks and garage doors, access your security and door entry systems, and access your cameras from anywhere. The app sends you customized notifications for critical events, such as extreme temperatures or motion alerts. AUDIO AND VIDEO EVERYWHERE Savant is an industry leader in audio and video switching technology. Get high fidelity digital audio pumped throughout the home with our newly re-designed music interface, which supports Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, Sirius XM, TuneIn and more. Want to play video games while watching the big game? With the Savant Pro app, you can tile multiple video streams onto one screen, making it perfect for sports or news events. YOUR PERFECT CLIMATE Control virtually any climate system with Savant. Set climate schedules and control the temperature and lights for pools and spas. Create Savant Scenes to capture the perfect climate, lights and music for any occasion, accessible at the touch of a button through your thermostat. Ready to design your Savant smart home? Visit savant.com to find an authorized dealer.

About

Marvin Home

Automate your windows, skylights, and doors to adapt to your preferences. Enjoy fresher air, better light, and unobstructed views with effortless control.

Highlights
  • Automated window control
  • Skylight automation
  • Door automation
  • Dynamic adaptation to preferences
  • Enhanced light control
  • Improved air circulation
Features
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Enjoy fresher air, enhanced light, and maximum views with automated windows, skylights, and doors that dynamically adapt based on personal preferences for effortless convenience and control.

Screenshots

Savant4 screens
Marvin Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Savant at 8.6K against Marvin Home's 18. Savant also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Marvin Home's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 36%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Savant holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Savant has 8.6K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Savant's written reviews are positive against 50% of Marvin Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Savant ships an update every 2 months, Marvin Home every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Savant versus Marvin Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSavantMarvin Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8.6K ratings) — better4.1 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews36.3% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.6K — better18
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.6
Further details — not scored
Size377 MB68 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSavant Systems Inc.Marvin Commercial Solutions

Customer experience

Savant

All ratings8,244 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive36.3%
Neutral7.9%
Negative55.8%

Marvin Home

All ratings18 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Savant

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lighting and shades control not working
  • Doorbell and camera integration issues
  • Syncing problems between app and hardware
  • Unreliable Wi-Fi connectivity

Requested features

4 requests
  • Voice control integration
  • Improved music playback and volume control
  • Customizable scenes and automation options
  • Better integration with third-party smart home devices

Marvin Home

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Savant

No in-app purchases

None

Marvin Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Savant free?
Savant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marvin Home free?
Marvin Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Savant or Marvin Home?
Savant is rated higher. Savant averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8.6K ratings, while Marvin Home averages 4.1 from 18 ratings.
Do Savant or Marvin Home have ads?
Neither Savant nor Marvin Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Savant or Marvin Home?
Savant ships an update every 2 months, and Marvin Home every 4 months. Most recently, Savant was updated on November 11, 2026 and Marvin Home on November 3, 2026.

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