Home + Control vs Thinknx UP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home + Control
Control your home's lights and power remotely. Schedule devices to turn on/off automatically for comfort, safety, and convenience. Monitor energy usage to reduce waste and costs.
- Remote control of lights and power
- Scheduling for automation
- Energy usage monitoring
- Smart alerts for power outages
- Compatibility with voice assistants
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Legrand Home + Control is designed for: LEGRAND RADIANT WITH NETATMO AND ADORNE WITH NETATMO SMART SWITCHES & OUTLETS Manage lights and power, from anywhere, with the Legrand Home + Control app. Start with a Smart Gateway, then replace existing switches, dimmers and outlets with adorne and radiant with Netatmo Smart Switches and Outlets for full control of your lights and power. COMFORT Turn on lights from wherever you go, giving you the comfort needed to enjoy life. SAFETY Schedule lights for your arrival, or dim lights to safely navigate the house at night. CONVENIENCE Conveniently schedule lights or appliances to go on/off automatically. MORE CONTROL, LESS WASTE The Home + Control app provides incredible visibility to a home’s energy usage, helping reduce energy cost and waste. Monitor, manage, and more. Set Smart Alerts to be notified in the event of a power outage or lights left on. Legrand Home + Control is compatible with: Amazon Alexa, Google Home or Apple HomeKit
Thinknx UP
This app enhances professional home automation supervision with a redesigned interface for improved usability and performance. It offers advanced control over lighting, climate, and security systems, with customizable layouts and multilingual support.
- Home and building automation management
- Advanced lighting control (RGBW)
- Customizable scenes and schedules
- HVAC and thermostat management
- Multilingual interface support
- Integration with security systems
- Video surveillance management
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Thinknx UP uplifts the level of supervisions for professional home automation. Completely redesigned and distinguished by unique key features, this app allows a leap forward in terms of usability and appealing providing the building enhanced performances as well as much more power and flexibility. A new RGBW POP-UP simplifies the usage of colored and tunable white lamps permitting to save unlimited number of colors and to shuffle between them. SCENES can be modified as easily as during recording, allowing any single action to be changed or even removed to get the desired end result. In addition to the automatically generated list, CUSTOMIZABLE PORTRAIT can be designed as for landscape to accommodate your prefer graphic. Reinvented SCHEDULES permit to easily create time or event based actions repeating on any time base. It is also possible to switch from one THEME to another just choosing it from the settings. The management of HVAC and thermostats has been lead to an even higher level presenting much more info to the user without any additional configuration. Last but not least, to deploy the app globally, interfaces can be now created in ANY LANGUAGE thanks to the minimal usage of fixed texts and the support of unicode fonts. Features: - Fast and easy setup using the free ThinKnx Configurator - Unlimited number of KNX group addresses - Multiproject support - Secure connection thanks to encrypted stream - Comfortable and intuitive usage - Simple and attractive design - Advanced logical functions Check list of the main software functions: - Management of complete home and building automation systems based on KNX, Z-Wave, BTicino, Modbus - Lights (on/off command with % value, dimmer, new RGBW control with colors and sequences set by the user) - Awnings and any kind of motorized shutter/curtain - Climate and heating (manual or scheduled climate control) - Display weather data - Load control, water, gas, electricity - Create custom scenarios - HVAC control with desired thermal modality (comfort, standby, night) - Basic Logic - Boolean functions (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND) and filters. - Timed controls thanks to calendars and a lot of kind of timers - KNX bus monitor via web page - Smart Irrigation system - Voice control function Integrated anti-intrusion systems: - Bentel: Kyo8, Kyo16, Kyo32, Kyo320, Absoluta - Tecnoalarm: Tecno Out protocol - Paradox - Elkron: MP508TG - Aritech Advisor Master and Advanced - Honeywell Galaxy - Inim - Urmet - Siemens SPC - Elmo / Iess Integrated management of video surveillance systems: - Mobotix Cameras - Axis Cameras - Network Cameras with MJPEG or RTSP H264 video flow Integration of installations of other type such as: - Interfacing with devices with MODBUS RTU communication protocol (thermal / special plants / fire / electrical meters) as the FCC-PLANTHERM, RDZ, Menerga - Integration with air conditioning systems by Sanyo - Integration with air conditioners by Mitsubishi - Gateway Function to and from MODBUS-RTU Integrated management of audio / video multi-room: - Audiofy - Tutondo - Audio Matrix / video AMX multiroom, Autopatch, Kramer, Atlona (via serial interface), Gefen - Video walls NEC, Projectors Sanyo, LG Monitor (via serial interface) - Receivers Denon, Onkyo, Cambridge Audio (via serial or network) - Monitoring of all devices via IR remote control IR 36kHz or 52kHz and Global Caché - Internet of Things gateway - Sonos - Ethernet gateway
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Home + Control at 4.3 against Thinknx UP's 1.0. Home + Control also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 15%) and ratings volume (139 vs 7). Thinknx UP's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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.
Home + Control holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home + Control has 139 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Home + Control's written reviews are positive against 15% of Thinknx UP's.
Home + Control ships an update monthly, Thinknx UP every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home + Control | Thinknx UP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (139 ratings) — better | 1.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.0% of reviews — better | 15.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 139 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 214 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Legrand - Netatmo – Bticino | LuForLu |
Customer experience
Home + Control
Thinknx UP
In-app purchases
Home + Control
No in-app purchases
Thinknx UP
No in-app purchases
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