Netro vs FX Wi
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
FX Wi
Easily manage your Wi-Fi plugs with this app. Control devices manually, set custom timers and schedules, and create scenes for your lighting. Organize your home management for efficient outdoor lighting control.
- Manual ON/OFF control
- Custom timer settings
- Sunset/sunrise schedules
- Scene creation for multiple devices
- Home management setup
- Device management
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Using the FX Wi-Fi App, controlling your Wi-Fi Plug is simple. You can turn it on or off manually, set timers, create schedules, and even design custom scenes for your lighting. Let’s walk through the key features. HOME MANAGEMENT Setting up a home in the FX Wi-Fi App makes managing outdoor lighting more intuitive and efficient. DEVICE MANAGEMENT Manual turn ON or OFF directly from the FX Wi-Fi App SCHEDULE CREATION Create custom time and sunset/sunrise schedules SCENE CREATION Custom scene control to control multiple wi-fi plugs with a single tap
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FX Wi at 3.8 against Netro's 2.7. FX Wi also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Netro's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (18 vs 6). On price, ads, 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.
FX Wi holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Netro's written reviews are positive against 50% of FX Wi's.
Netro ships an update every 4 months, FX Wi every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Netro | FX Wi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (18 ratings) | 3.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.9% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 14 months |
| 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 201 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Netro Inc | Hunter Industries |
Customer experience
Netro
FX Wi
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
FX Wi
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Netro
No in-app purchases
FX Wi
No in-app purchases
