Comparison

Flair vs SPAN Home

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

Head to head
About

Flair

Control your home's heating and cooling room by room from your smartphone. Create custom schedules, save energy with geofencing, and integrate with smart home devices for ultimate comfort and efficiency.

Highlights
  • Room-by-room temperature control
  • Customizable schedules
  • Geofencing for energy saving
  • Smart home device integration
  • Remote access and control
  • Share access with family
Features
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Flair is Next Degree™ climate control for your home air conditioning and heating system. With the Flair app, you can enjoy room-by-room comfort anytime, anywhere by adjusting your temperature setpoints and creating schedules for individual rooms. Away from home? Our geofencing will make sure you save energy by automatically setting rooms as active or inactive as needed. You can use the Flair app to -Easily set up your Flair Puck and Smart Vents. You can also connect your Flair devices to your mini split, Nest, ecobee, Honeywell Lyric, and even your Alexa or Google Assistant devices. -Get room-by-room comfort. You can create schedules to make sure every room in your home is comfortable. -Save energy. Set up geofencing and Smart Away to make sure your rooms are exactly how you want them when you're out of the house. -Share home comfort. Set up account permissions for friends, family, or a house sitter. But don't worry: anyone can set a temperature directly from the Puck, even if they don't have the App. Have some thoughts? We always want to hear your feedback on our app. Send them our way: hello@flair.co

About

SPAN Home

This app provides smart control over your home's electrical panel, allowing you to monitor energy usage, manage individual rooms and appliances, and uncover cost-saving insights. It enhances home energy management and offers advanced features when paired with solar and battery systems, including EV charging.

Highlights
  • Real-time energy dashboard
  • Room and appliance level control
  • Cost saving insights
  • Power outage protection
  • EV charging integration
  • Over-the-air updates
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For SPAN Panel MAIN 32 “This thing is a game changer. This is how you save money” - Jon Dawson, Next-gen builder “A long-overdue, borderline genius product that puts much-needed control back into the hands of homeowners.” - Wired Magazine “SPAN is now the center of my smart home. I’ve been waiting most of my life for this product” - A SPAN customer SPAN reinvented the 100-year-old electrical panel with smarter controls for smarter savings. It replaces your existing electrical panel and gives you complete control over every room and appliance in your home right from your phone. From anywhere in the world, the SPAN Home® App allows you to: Centralize your home’s energy data into one real-time dashboard, giving you a 360° view of your home’s energy performance Make real-time energy changes at the room and appliance level to suit your needs and lower your energy bill Uncover cost-saving insights designed to lower your energy bill and save you money When paired with solar panels and a home battery system, SPAN gives you the best protection against power outages by extending battery life by 40%, providing whole-home backup on a single battery system, and the unmatched flexibility to change what your battery system powers in an outage. Your SPAN Home can include SPAN Drive, a universal EV charger that delivers up to 41 miles of range per hour (48A, 11.52kW) of charging for the fastest charging speeds available - all without a service upgrade to install. The SPAN Home App is constantly improving with free, over-the-air updates designed to improve your experience and unlock greater savings.

Screenshots

Flair4 screens
SPAN Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SPAN Home at none against Flair's shown. SPAN Home also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (3.6 vs 3.2). Flair's advantage is review sentiment (42% vs 29%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume 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

SPAN Home holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 126 and 104 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 42% of Flair's written reviews are positive against 29% of SPAN Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flair ships an update every 6 weeks, SPAN Home fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Flair versus SPAN Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlairSPAN Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (126 ratings)3.6 (104 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.5% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings126 — better104
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStandard EulerSpan.io, Inc

Customer experience

Flair

All ratings126 ratings
Positive50.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive42.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative51.9%

SPAN Home

All ratings104 ratings
Positive56.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative32.7%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral16.3%
Negative55.1%

User reviews

Flair

From 126 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✅ Solves temperature imbalance issues effectively
  • 🔧 Easy hardware installation
  • 📱 Useful scheduling and geofencing features
  • 🏠 Seamless integration with Ecobee systems
  • 💰 Cost-effective alternative to zoned HVAC

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App is buggy and unreliable
  • 🐌 Slow app response times and updates
  • 😕 Poor user interface design
  • 🔌 Requires cloud connectivity for all functions
  • 🔐 Installer code restrictions limit user control

SPAN Home

From 104 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Innovative smart panel concept
  • 💡 Provides energy usage insights
  • 💡 Useful for backup flexibility
  • 💡 Good integration with Tesla Powerwall
  • 💡 Offers control over home loads

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Connectivity issues (iffy, loses connection)
  • 🐛 Slow loading times (5 seconds)
  • 🐛 Unreliable data and inaccurate readings
  • 🐛 Poor integration of multiple panels

Bugs and requests

Flair

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • App loses API connection and requires reconfiguration
  • Thermostat puts out max heat despite room being above setpoint
  • Vents don't respond to app commands inconsistently
  • App splash screen overlay blocks interface in portrait mode
  • Back button unresponsive on iPhone 14/15
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  • Temperature settings revert to previous values
  • Vent stuck in manual mode and won't return to auto
  • App doesn't follow thermostat priority schedules
  • Motion sensors override schedule settings incorrectly
  • 5+ minute delay in temperature updates from sensors
  • Devices show offline despite active WiFi connection
  • App hangs on iPad initial load screen
  • Firmware updates delete system configuration
  • Geofencing fails to detect home/away status
  • System switches between heat and cool modes excessively
  • Hold function defaults to permanent with no obvious duration option
  • Temperature adjustment dial is oversensitive
  • Text selection appears when trying to adjust temperature
  • App doesn't communicate mode changes to pucks
  • Nest thermostat integration inconsistent
  • Historical vent open percentage data no longer visible

Requested features

17 requests
  • Dark mode for app interface
  • Dual setpoint control (separate heat/cool temperatures)
  • HomeKit integration
  • Local control without cloud dependency
  • Manual mode scheduling
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  • Ability to set vents to mixed automatic/manual states
  • Faster app refresh and response times
  • Visible vent open/close status in main view
  • Better integration with Nest thermostat
  • Puck temperature offset adjustment
  • Temperature range settings instead of single setpoint
  • Matter protocol support
  • Zigbee or Z-Wave compatibility
  • Occupancy sensor integration from other platforms
  • Mode switching delay to prevent heat/cool cycling
  • Default vent state when HVAC is off
  • Improved schedule UI and temperature adjustment controls

SPAN Home

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • App freezes on iPad
  • Circuit switching sometimes fails
  • App shows ads for other products
  • Energy usage data is inaccurate or delayed
  • PowerUp feature control is hidden
Show 29 more
  • App needs force quit to work
  • Data fails to load or stalls
  • App loses connectivity with batteries
  • System does not function as intended during power outages
  • Estimated battery hours/minutes are incorrect
  • App shows panel offline when it's online
  • App recently deleted backup instructions
  • App displays data hours old
  • App crashes or encounters problems constantly
  • App is slow to load
  • App is sluggish and chunky
  • App shows solar production at night
  • App does not support Powerwall 2
  • Responsiveness for switching breakers is poor
  • Circuit monitoring breaks frequently
  • Panel does not function offline
  • Password change process is difficult
  • App does not integrate multiple panels correctly
  • Setup was a pain
  • App in a cycle of constant loading
  • App does not have native iPad support
  • App UI looks dated
  • App crashes and takes a while to launch
  • App loses connection to battery system frequently
  • App disconnects way too often
  • App is seriously dumbed down from v1
  • App has basic inconsistencies in real-time stats
  • App data does not match Tesla App
  • App only supports Alexa and it doesn't work

Requested features

23 requests
  • Unified view for multiple panels
  • Improved app customization
  • More robust connectivity
  • Better Tesla battery integration support
  • Easier labeling of breakers
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  • Darker, more readable app interface
  • Desktop dashboard/web app
  • Smaller SPAN sub-panel option
  • Modular sub-panel breaker monitoring
  • Public API for Home Assistant integration
  • Native iPad support (split screen, hover)
  • More smart home integration (Apple HomeKit)
  • Ability to toggle between panels with swipe
  • Increased character limit for circuit names
  • iOS Widget for at-a-glance data
  • Schedule breakers to turn on/off automatically
  • Better daily data view for breaker level changes
  • 2FA for account security
  • Historical usage per circuit
  • SPAN Drive mode for solar-only charging
  • Basic voltage readouts for grid diagnostics
  • Improved Time of Day Plans functionality
  • Fix for 'areas' feature for multi-panel setups

In-app purchases

None

Flair

No in-app purchases

None

SPAN Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flair free?
Flair is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SPAN Home free?
SPAN Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flair or SPAN Home?
SPAN Home is rated higher. Flair averages 3.2 out of 5 from 126 ratings, while SPAN Home averages 3.6 from 104 ratings.
Do Flair or SPAN Home have ads?
Flair shows ads; SPAN Home does not.
Which is updated more often, Flair or SPAN Home?
Flair ships an update every 6 weeks, and SPAN Home fortnightly. Most recently, Flair was updated on November 11, 2026 and SPAN Home on November 3, 2026.

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