Intercom Anywhere vs Savant Power & Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intercom Anywhere
Transform your mobile phone into a video intercom for your smart home. Receive doorbell notifications, see and speak to visitors, and control smart home devices remotely. Stay connected with family through in-home calls.
- Doorbell notifications
- See and talk to visitors
- Control smart home devices
- In-home touch screen calls
- Remote mobile calls
- Programmable custom buttons
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The Intercom Anywhere app is built exclusively for your Control4 Smart Home and makes your mobile phone part of your video intercom experience. Get notified when someone rings your doorbell—then see and talk to them, or simply ignore. Two built-in, custom buttons allow you to control your smart home during the intercom call—turn on lights, unlock the door, disarm the alarm, or anything else you would want to do when a visitor comes to the door. Plus, make calls between your Control4 touch screens and your mobile phones—allowing you to keep in touch with your family when you are away. Intercom Anywhere features: - Receive notifications when someone is at the door - See door station video, answer or ignore - Initiate smart home actions with two programmable buttons - Call to and from touch screens - Ring groups of touch screens in the home - Works over your mobile phone network from virtually anywhere Requirements: - Control4 OS 2.10.3 or newer - Control4 4Sight service - Control4 DS2 Door Station for doorbell features - Control4 T3-Series touch screens for in-home calls - iOS 10 or newer for iPhones
Savant Power & Light
Easily configure and manage your smart power systems, including energy storage and load management. Set up essential circuits for power outages and monitor energy consumption and production in real-time.
- Streamlined configuration of power systems
- Guided setup with automated device discovery
- Define essential circuits for power outages
- Monitor live energy consumption
- Monitor secondary power source production
- Supports integrated energy storage and generators
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Savant Power & Light offers quick onboarding and streamlined configuration of Savant Power Systems, including Savant Power Storage and the Savant Power Director. Easily configure load management to extend battery storage with Savant Power Modules. GUIDED SETUP Easily deploy smart power using automated device discover and intuitive configuration of your power sources, electrical panels and energy automation. FOCUS YOUR ENERGY Define the essential circuits that remain powered during a power outage with Savant Energy Scenes. Create more scenes to deliver flexibility in what gets power as the needs change in the home, and leverage battery state of charge to shed additional load over time and extend the runtime of the Savant Power System. TEST & MONITOR Use Savant Power & Light to control circuits in the electrical panel supported by Savant Power Modules. Monitor live energy consumption across the home, and production of secondary power sources like automatic generators and solar modules using the Savant Current Track Module. POWER EFFICIENCY Leverage the load management benefits of Savant Power Modules with select integrated energy storage systems, automatic generators and solar installations. SMART EXTENSIONS Savant Power & Light also provides onboarding and configuration support for other Savant and GE smart solutions, including Savant Lighting Modules, smart dimmers & switches and low voltage-controlled DMX and 0-10V lighting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Savant Power & Light at 100% against Intercom Anywhere's 11%. Savant Power & Light also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2). Intercom Anywhere's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 13). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Savant Power & Light holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intercom Anywhere has 83 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Intercom Anywhere's written reviews are positive against 100% of Savant Power & Light's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intercom Anywhere | Savant Power & Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Snap One, LLC | Savant Systems Inc. |
Customer experience
Intercom Anywhere
Savant Power & Light
Bugs and requests
Intercom Anywhere
Reported bugs
39 issues- App stuck on sign in screen
- App crashes on load
- App crashes after iOS update
- App crashes after app update
- App does not connect to user account
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- App does not consistently connect to iPhone 13
- App says 'connecting' after login
- App crashes when trying to connect to intercom/touchscreens
- App requires new Gateway update after iOS update
- App stalls indefinitely trying to connect
- App does not work with new iPhones
- App has no connection when trying to answer call
- App does not connect to gate intercom
- No image, only cycles through
- Intercom won't connect when doorbell rings
- iWatch stopped notifying by buzzing
- App rings on silent/DND
- App rings even when notifications are off
- Busy signal when trying to answer after thumbnail notification
- No audio sometimes
- Logs out unexpectedly
- Camera has no sound at door end
- Locks out saying 'busy' after closing and retrying
- Cannot switch between multiple properties without logout/login
- App becomes unstable, crashes or logs out while answering door
- Cannot answer or reject calls
- Connection intermittent or non-existent
- App rings loudly even on silent/DND
- Cannot silence alert without opening app
- Cannot adjust volume or silence without opening app
- Cannot reject call and have it silent
- Notification does not open app directly
- Does not work when on the phone
- Notification cannot be silenced until device unlocked and app started
- App rings on silent and DND mode
- Cannot answer intercom calls while in Locked Screen
- Significant lag from bell press to app ringing
- Not notified if on a call when doorbell rings
- Checking permissions stuck at loading circle
Requested features
10 requests- Allow app to bypass Do Not Disturb
- Make app work on iPads
- Add Siri integration
- Add motion alerts
- Limit ring duration
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- Review video history
- Allow answering calls on locked screen
- Integrate with Control4 app (single app)
- Add video functionality
- Improve UI/UX to be more modern
Savant Power & Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Intercom Anywhere
No in-app purchases
Savant Power & Light
No in-app purchases
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