Xhome vs U
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xhome
Monitor your home and office wirelessly with smart cameras and devices. Enjoy live video streaming, two-way audio, and instant motion alerts. This app offers remote management and control for a safer, smarter living space.
- Wireless low-power cameras
- Video doorbell and e-locks
- Live video streaming
- Two-way audio calls
- Motion detection alerts
- Remote management and control
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Xhome is a powerful mobile application designed for wireless low-power products for office, home security and outdoor monitoring, alarms, visual doorbell, remote management and control.With smart hardware cameras,E-locks etc, you can easily monitor all the important things in your life. With a tap of your finger, you can easily communicate audio and video anywhere and get notified whenever something moves. Low power 100% Wireless cameras can be placed anywhere, even outdoors, and for months there is no need to worry about changing batteries frequently. Video doorbell, E-locks, will not let you miss any visitors, or even deal with check delivery and so on. Live video streaming with two-way audio calls, build in telecommunications-grade voice processing technology, even in noisy environments can listen to each other's voice. So you can build safer and smarter home very easy！
U
Control and manage your smart home devices from a single application. Easily share access with household members and monitor various UMAX U-Smart devices like cameras, sensors, and lighting.
- Remote device control
- Household member sharing
- Energy measurement sockets
- Security camera monitoring
- Sensor integration (motion, smoke, gas)
- Smart lighting control
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The U-Smart application manages and controls your smart home built with UMAX U-Smart devices. You can easily control and share your smart home devices with other members of your household. Among the UMAX U-Smart devices you can find smart sockets with energy measurement, LED RGB Bulbs, night lamps, security IP cameras, door sensors, motion sensors, smoke and gas sensors, and others. What are you waiting for? Your smart home is here!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: U at none against Xhome's shown. U also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%). Xhome's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (103 vs 10). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Xhome against 4.5 for U. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Xhome has 103 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Xhome's written reviews are positive against 33% of U's.
Xhome ships an update fortnightly, U every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Xhome | U |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (103 ratings) | 4.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LANCENS TECHNOLOGY INC. | Umax Czech a.s. |
Customer experience
Xhome
U
In-app purchases
Xhome
No in-app purchases
U
No in-app purchases
