Smart Living vs GDMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Living
Control your home devices like lights, curtains, and fans remotely. Check the status of your appliances from anywhere, anytime. Prepare your home environment before you arrive by turning on AC, lights, and opening curtains.
- Control lighting
- Control curtains
- Control fans
- Control sockets
- Check appliance status
- Remote device control
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Smart Living is an application help you to control your home devices such as lighting, curtain, fan, socket, etc… Open the app, you can check the home appliance and light status via this App any time and anywhere . Before you go to home, you also open you AC, open you curtain, light, etc...
GDMS
This app offers centralized, secure management for Grandstream audio/video products. Administrators can easily add devices by scanning codes, configure accounts, upgrade firmware, and receive real-time alerts about device status.
- Scan code to add devices
- Configure accounts
- Upgrade device firmware
- Remote device start
- Real-time device monitoring
- Push alert messages
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GDMS mobile application provides centralized, secure and zero-operation management methods and solutions for Grandstream audio/video products users. The device administrators can work on mobile devices by scanning the codes to add devices, configure accounts/upgrade devices firmware quickly, and the alert messages can be pushed to mobile client. Including: 1. Scan code to add device: Support to scan the barcodes of a batch of devices to add the devices to GDMS platform. 2. Manage device: Support to configure accounts for devices, upgrade devices firmware, and start the devices remotely. 3. Monitor device in real-time: Push the device registration, abnormal status, alert messages to mobile management client.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GDMS at 4.7 against Smart Living's 1.5. GDMS also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 34%). Smart Living's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
GDMS holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Smart Living's written reviews are positive against 50% of GDMS's.
Smart Living ships an update every 3 weeks, GDMS every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Smart Living | GDMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LANBON | Grandstream |
Customer experience
Smart Living
GDMS
In-app purchases
Smart Living
No in-app purchases
GDMS
No in-app purchases
