Comparison

Savant vs Luma View

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

Luma View

Monitor your security cameras remotely with live HD video streaming, event playback, and recording capabilities. Features include smart event search with object filtering, customizable grid views, and audio support. Manage multiple devices and access your footage anytime, anywhere from your tablet or mobile.

Highlights
  • HD live viewing (single/split screen)
  • Synchronized playback (up to 16 channels)
  • Smart Event Search (human/vehicle filtering)
  • Push notifications for events
  • Customizable grid views
  • Snapshot and video recording
  • Two-way audio support
Features
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The all new Luma View app offers powerful features at your fingertips, allows you check on what matters – anytime, anywhere. Watch live video, user-friendly event search, playback, and save recordings, or take a snapshot all from your tablet or mobile device. • Enjoy HD live viewing of a single or split screen (4, 9, or 16 channels simultaneously) in both portrait and landscape modes with convenient pinch to zoom • Synchronize playback up to 16 channels • User-friendly Smart Event Search with human and vehicle filtering • Push message offer quick overview of latest events • Auto switch between high or standard resolution depending on your remote connection • Customize your grid views for multi-device management – Drag and drop cameras where you’d like them, even across multiple DVRs/NVRs • Easily scan timeline and playback to find recordings and events • Instantly capture snapshots or record videos with a tap of your finger • Add snapshots and video to your photo library for safe keeping or to share with family, friends, or colleagues • Listen or speak to whoever is on the other end (Audio support varies by camera model) • Remotely control pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras

Screenshots

Savant4 screens
Luma View4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Savant at 4.4 against Luma View's 1.7. Savant also leads on ratings volume (8.5K vs 6) and review sentiment (36% vs 13%). Luma View's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.6). 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

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 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Savant has 8.5K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Savant's written reviews are positive against 13% of Luma View's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Savant ships an update every 2 months, Luma View every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Savant versus Luma View: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSavantLuma View
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8.5K ratings) — better1.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews36.3% of reviews — better12.9% of reviews
Number of ratings8.5K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.612.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size377 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavant Systems Inc.Wirepath Home Systems, LLC

Customer experience

Savant

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

Luma View

Written reviews70 reviews
Positive12.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative85.7%

User reviews

Savant

From 8.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Impressive home automation control
  • 🔒 Reliable and secure system
  • 👍 Elegant and intuitive app interface
  • 🚀 Quick and responsive app performance

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and glitches
  • 🔌 Compatibility issues with software updates
  • 👎 Difficult to use and navigate
  • 💰 Expensive system and high maintenance costs

Luma View

From 6 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Huge improvement over old app
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 💡 Event snooze function is a home run
  • 🚀 Faster and more user-friendly
  • 🌟 Waterfall view is great

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes on open/launch
  • 🐛 Constantly crashing
  • 🐛 Unreliable
  • 🐛 App changes settings
  • 🐛 Completely breaks and won't open

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

Luma View

Reported bugs

75 issues
  • Crashes on open
  • App changes settings
  • App breaks and won't open
  • Issues with showing recordings or playback
  • Misses footage
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  • Cannot consistently access recordings
  • Continuously quits working on iPhones
  • Notifications not working
  • Cannot see live feed
  • Constantly glitching
  • Notifications stop working
  • Constantly stops working
  • Requires deleting and reinstalling to fix
  • Broken on iOS 26
  • Crashes on Apple devices
  • Clients cannot access cameras
  • Needs update for iOS 26
  • Always offline
  • Reload every time it's used
  • Have to uninstall and install every 3 months for alerts
  • Crashes before loading screen
  • No sound for notifications
  • Doesn't always record
  • Sound not very clear
  • App crashes
  • App won't open
  • App crashes all the time
  • Does not work with iOS 26/iPhone 17 Pro
  • Freezes on startup screen and closes
  • Can't connect
  • Won't launch
  • App does not work with latest iOS
  • App does not launch
  • Incredibly slow
  • Periodically crashes
  • Intrusion alerts stop working
  • Terrible bug for a surveillance system
  • Does not work with iOS 26
  • Black screen with logo then crashes
  • Broken
  • Doesn't work at all
  • Fails to record notifications
  • Doorbell cam issues
  • App hasn't worked from the start
  • No iPad version
  • Difficult to navigate
  • Cannot access desired video point
  • Always something wrong
  • Not very reliable
  • App makes cameras useless
  • Notifications not working
  • App icon notification numbers never reset
  • Connection drops every time app is opened
  • Fails to connect
  • Cannot see cameras
  • Monthly connection issues
  • Barely functional
  • Clunky app
  • Cameras disappear for no reason
  • Rarely functional
  • App skipping
  • Freezes for 3-4 seconds
  • Opening app and seeing cameras is super slow
  • Cameras constantly falling off connection
  • Add Favorite Button missing
  • Sends motion detection messages but devices offline
  • Recent update messed everything up
  • Connection failed in June, can't login in July
  • Forgot password link not sending email
  • New version blows up with 16 channel DVR
  • Connection failed half the time
  • Needs updating
  • Not able to be put on Mac or PC
  • Cannot cast to TV
  • Cannot view on Mac or PC

Requested features

16 requests
  • Distinguish between people, animal, car, package
  • Facial recognition and saving
  • Ability to search by name
  • Search with a single word
  • Add skip ahead function
Show 11 more
  • Add x2 speed option
  • Add iPad version
  • Add Mac or PC version
  • Add ability to cast to TV
  • Add Favorite Button
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve user interface for average user
  • Add ability to distinguish between event types (people, animals, cars, packages)
  • Implement facial recognition
  • Allow searching by name or keyword
  • Add x2 playback speed

In-app purchases

None

Savant

No in-app purchases

None

Luma View

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Savant free?
Savant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Luma View free?
Luma View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Savant or Luma View?
Savant is rated higher. Savant averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8.5K ratings, while Luma View averages 1.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Savant or Luma View have ads?
Neither Savant nor Luma View shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Savant or Luma View?
Savant ships an update every 2 months, and Luma View every 8 months. Most recently, Savant was updated on October 22, 2026 and Luma View on October 21, 2026.

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