Netro vs Hubitat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Netro
This app manages your home irrigation system remotely. It creates intelligent watering schedules based on local weather to conserve water and maintain a healthy garden. Monitor your garden's status and adjust settings from anywhere.
- Dynamic weather-based watering schedules
- Remote sprinkler monitoring and control
- Garden health status indicators
- Adjustable watering preferences
- Schedule manager
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Netro is a cloud based watering system that is designed for effortless use in residential irrigation. It helps to reduce unnecessary water usage and keeps your garden healthy. Netro creates dynamic watering schedules by analyzing your local weather and estimating the rain amount. The Netro app shows the key factors for a healthy garden so you know exactly how your garden is doing. It also provides a convenient schedule manager through which you can adjust your watering preferences and Netro will optimally adjust the schedule for you. With the Netro app, you can monitor and control your sprinklers from anywhere. You can purchase the smart watering controller (Netro Sprite), the smart hose faucet timer(Netro Pixie) and the smart plant sensor (Netro Whisperer) at Netrohome.com or Amazon.com
Hubitat
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely. Set up location-based automation and receive important alerts directly to your phone. This app enhances your existing home automation system.
- Access Dashboards
- Monitor and control devices
- Arm/disarm Safety Monitor
- Change Modes
- Define Geofence for Presence
- Receive Push Notifications
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App is an accessory to the Hubitat Elevation home automation system. Users of Hubitat Elevation can use the Mobile App to: - Access Dashboards to monitor and control devices, arm or disarm Hubitat Safety Monitor, change Modes and more. - Define a Geofence for Mobile Presence detection based on phone location. The Geofence center defaults to your hub location but can be dragged to any location and the radius set. - Receive Push Notifications from Hubitat Elevation apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hubitat at 163 against Netro's 17. Hubitat also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.6). Netro's advantage is review sentiment (38% vs 28%). On price, rating, 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.
Hubitat holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hubitat has 163 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Netro's written reviews are positive against 28% of Hubitat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Netro ships an update every 4 months, Hubitat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Netro | Hubitat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (17 ratings) | 2.8 (163 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.9% of reviews — better | 28.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 163 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Netro Inc | Hubitat, Inc. |
Customer experience
Netro
Hubitat
User reviews
Netro
From 17 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy setup and installation
- 👍 Good overall functionality
- 👍 Flexible programming options
- 👍 Supports remote access
- 👍 Good for dry climates
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Unreliable weather data
- 🐛 Login required every time
- 🐛 Limited historical data storage
- 🐛 Difficulty with manual control
Hubitat
From 163 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast local control and response times
- 🔒 Local-first architecture with optional cloud access
- 💡 Highly customizable and flexible platform
- 📱 Geofencing and presence detection capabilities
- 🎯 Excellent device compatibility and integrations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- 🎨 Outdated, clunky UI design (Windows 98 style)
- 📍 Geofencing unreliable and inconsistent
- 🔋 Excessive battery drain from location tracking
- ☁️ Cloud/remote access requires paid subscription
Bugs and requests
Netro
Reported bugs
36 issues- App crashes on opening
- App crashes when renaming zones
- App crashes when moving between screens
- App crashes when attempting to open
- App crashes when logging in
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- App crashes when creating an account
- App crashes immediately after opening
- App crashes after entering login info
- App crashes every time on opening
- App crashes every single time on opening
- App crashes every time I attempt to open it
- App crashes every single time I attempt to open it
- App crashes every single time I attempt to open it and log in
- Json serialization error
- App freezes on spinning green dots when making setting changes
- Hourly data split between AM/PM and separate screens
- Scrolling on data plot pages crashes the app
- System randomly will not water zones
- Manual watering not working
- App doesn't send notifications when a program has run
- Weather data is inaccurate
- Controller does not reconnect to Wi-Fi after power outage
- Delay function is confusing
- Scheduling section is pointless
- App doesn't show main page update when zone is run from programs page
- Manual control changed to separate screen
- No way to shut off manual control
- Whisperer dying
- Pixies all died
- Cannot rearrange programs
- Device was dead during watering cycle
- Sync is too long
- Manual stop button doesn't work
- Saving custom programs only saves for about 2 weeks
- Scheduling function is not working
- Created scheduling program does not reflect in the calendar
Requested features
23 requests- Allow 1.5 minute watering intervals
- Allow simultaneous watering of multiple zones
- Alter order of watering zones with drag and drop
- Add more weather providers (e.g., Apple's API)
- Improve user interface for iOS users
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- Incorporate scheduling under preferences into programs
- Increase maximum run time beyond 60 minutes
- Add push notifications for watering start/stop
- Allow users to choose Italian weather sources
- Allow users to select watering during night hours only
- Add a manual hard 'Stop' button for all zones
- Make manual control easier and more accessible
- Allow users to rearrange programs
- Improve historical data storage duration
- Remember login credentials
- Improve analytics depth and flexibility
- Allow users to customize default settings
- Make manual watering selection more accessible
- Allow users to configure custom zone names in Alexa app
- Improve the way wires make contact in slots
- Provide a more reliable weather forecast for Italy
- Allow users to disable weather-based watering if desired
- Improve the delay function to be more intuitive
Hubitat
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup consistently
- Geofence detection fails to send events to hub
- Geofence shows incorrect location (off by km)
- Login screen keyboard covers continue button
- App hangs at 'Loading User Data' screen
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- Dashboard doesn't load after backgrounding
- Local LAN mode not working, stuck on cloud
- Hub discovery doesn't work on iOS
- Duplicate rooms and devices displayed
- Incorrect device status reporting
- Notifications show 'invalid token' error
- App doesn't support screen rotation
- Email verification code not received
- Presence detection broken after updates
- App unable to connect to hub after updates
- Geofence size resets to default
- What's New screen cannot be dismissed
- Layout issues with overlapping buttons on iPhone 7
Requested features
15 requests- Native iOS app with proper UI/UX design
- Dark mode option
- Widget support for quick device access
- Ability to add/discover devices from mobile app
- Automation and scene creation from app
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- iPad landscape view support
- Drag-and-drop dashboard tile customization
- Multiple geofence locations
- Motion sensor activity logging in dashboard
- Improved dashboard responsiveness and layout
- Manual IP address entry for hub connection
- SMS-based account verification
- Battery usage optimization for geofencing
- Real-time notifications with better visibility
- Detailed user manual and in-app help
In-app purchases
Netro
No in-app purchases
Hubitat
No in-app purchases
