KNX APP vs ABB Smart Community
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KNX APP
Control your home or office remotely with custom scenes and time programs. Manage lighting, temperature, security, and more. Offers live previews, camera control, and push notifications for alarms.
- Custom scene creation
- Time program management
- Lighting and blind control
- Temperature management
- IP camera pan, tilt, zoom
- Alarm notifications
- PIN page protection
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The KNX APP-Control app is a client for the KNX APP-Control Server. Controlling your home or office was never so fast and easy. Build your own scenes and time programs for your home and change them when ever you want. Lighting control, blind control, temperature control, energy management, EV-Charger, timers, IP cameras, alarm notifications, charts and much more. A selection of the features: • change scenes directly from within the app • optional "live preview" of the scenes • add new time programms, change them or remove them • pan, tilt and zoom support for IP cameras • multiple accounts support • multiple visualizations support • alarm messages with support for push messages and email • protect pages with a PIN
ABB Smart Community
Control door entry with multiple authentication methods including passwords, QR codes, Bluetooth, and facial recognition. Grant temporary access to visitors and manage family or tenant permissions remotely. This app prioritizes user privacy and network security.
- Multiple door opening methods
- Password and QR code access
- Bluetooth and facial recognition
- Remote internet control
- Manage family/tenant access
- Time-limited visitor permissions
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ABB Smart Community APP provides users with convenient and efficient door entry control functions. Multiple doors open methods to fulfill different people’s requirements, such as passwords, QR codes, Bluetooth, key cards, face identification, video calls, and remote control via the internet. Homeowners could manage family or tenant’s door open authorization. APP users could provide visitors with time-limited passwords or QR codes to conveniently access the door. ABB Smart Community APP complies with enterprise network security technology and strictly protects personal privacy data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ABB Smart Community at 5.0 against KNX APP's 1.0. KNX APP's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
ABB Smart Community holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
KNX APP ships an update every 5 months, ABB Smart Community every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KNX APP | ABB Smart Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 607 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busch-Jaeger Elektro GmbH | ABB Information Systems AG |
Customer experience
KNX APP
ABB Smart Community
In-app purchases
KNX APP
No in-app purchases
ABB Smart Community
No in-app purchases
