StreamLabs vs Crestron Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StreamLabs
This app provides comprehensive home water management, detecting leaks and offering insights into water usage. It connects with smart devices to alert you to potential issues and allows for customized settings or automatic learning for protection.
- Real-time water usage monitoring
- Customizable leak detection alerts
- Smart Alerts™ learning leak detection
- Freeze and temperature alerts
- Home and Away modes
- Remote water shut-off (with Control device)
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Meet StreamLabs®, your all-in-one home water solution that protects your home from water damage and leaks from both plumbing and non-plumbing sources. Using a combination of advanced ultrasonic technology and sensors, StreamLabs captures and delivers powerful insights into your water usage – and provides real-time alerts of potential leaks. Manually customize your leak alert settings or let the new learning Smart Alerts™ feature automatically protect your home by detecting any water usage outside of the norm. Choose from three StreamLabs devices: StreamLabs Scout, StreamLabs Monitor or StreamLabs Control. All three of these Wi-Fi-enabled devices provide leak protection for your home, and work together or independently. The StreamLabs Scout and the StreamLabs Smart Home Water Monitor each install in under 5-minutes with no pipe cutting, tools, or professional installer required. The StreamLabs Control features remote, flow-based automatic water shut-off functionality, and can use alerts from the Scout to stop leaks even sooner for high-risk appliances such as water heaters and ice makers. The StreamLabs App is mission control for your StreamLabs devices. It supports the Scout, Monitor and Control all in one place to create tailored household leak protection optimized for your needs. In the StreamLabs App, you’ll have access to: - Live water usage - Customized leak detection settings: slow and major leak alerts (Monitor and Control) - Smart Alerts™ learning leak detection (Monitor and Control) - Freeze alerts (Scout, Monitor and Control) - Home and Away modes (Monitor and Control) - Comparative water usage charts (Monitor and Control) - Remote shut-off (Control only) - Water pressure, water temperature (Control only) - Drip Detect™ alerts (Control only) - Room Temperature alerts (Scout, Monitor, and Control) - Humidity alerts (Scout and Control) See how StreamLabs puts household leak protection at your fingertips. To learn more, visit www.StreamLabswater.com.
Crestron Go
Control your smart home or workplace with a customized, intuitive interface. This app offers dynamic navigation, real-time feedback on various systems, and a sleek look consistent with mobile devices.
- Customizable user interface
- Dynamic navigation (swiping, knobs, sliders)
- Real-time feedback on system status
- Scalable buttons, sliders, and gauges
- Momentum scrolling toolbars and menus
- Support for Apple Super Retina display
- Integration with Crestron VC-4
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Whatever you do with your mobile device, you want the experience to be intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable. With the Crestron Go app, your Crestron dealer can provide you with a thoroughly satisfying and intuitive user interface, customized to meet your exact control needs in the home, workplace, classroom, or for any specialized application or market. Crestron Go leverages spectacular Crestron Smart Graphics™ to enable dynamic navigation that includes swiping, knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists. It includes a full set of scalable buttons, sliders, knobs, and gauges for controlling virtually any function with real-time feedback of audio settings, lighting levels, room temperature, and security system status. With Crestron Go, you get toolbars and menus that scroll with momentum at the flick of a fingertip, giving you easy access to all your controlled devices, functions, and media content. Crestron Go affords a look and feel that’s consistent with the mobile smart device experience, yet uniquely your own. With support for the Apple Super Retina® display, your UI will look its best, while support for the Crestron VC-4 gives you a centralized server based alternative to individual hardware based control systems in every room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StreamLabs at none against Crestron Go's 1. StreamLabs also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and rating (2.5 vs 2.2). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Crestron Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StreamLabs asks for nothing beyond the download.
StreamLabs holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 93 and 98 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of StreamLabs's written reviews are positive against 10% of Crestron Go's.
StreamLabs ships an update every 3 weeks, Crestron Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StreamLabs | Crestron Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (93 ratings) — better | 2.2 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 19.7% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RWC | Crestron Electronics, Inc. |
Customer experience
StreamLabs
Crestron Go
User reviews
StreamLabs
From 93 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ Real-time water flow
- 🛡️ Prevents water damage
- 💡 Great idea for monitoring
- 🏠 Protects home from leaks
- 📈 Usage reports available
Room to improve
- ❌ App frequently crashes
- ❌ Poor customer service
- ❌ Device not connecting to WiFi
- ❌ App freezes/shuts down
- ❌ Inaccurate leak detection
Crestron Go
From 98 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fully customizable system
- 👍 Works well when set up correctly
- 👍 Exceptional app for control systems
- 👍 Very practical and easy to understand
- 👍 Solid performance for controlling switchers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Setup is very difficult
- 🐛 Expensive purchase model ($99 per device)
- 🐛 Poor user interface and intuitiveness
- 🐛 Slow app updates and lack of maintenance
Bugs and requests
StreamLabs
Reported bugs
38 issues- App keeps freezing on login
- Device dies before use
- Device doesn't connect to WiFi
- App needs user feedback (timeout, signal strength)
- App crashes when clicking on device
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- Controller has power but no lights/connectivity
- System failed to detect major leak
- App shuts off water for normal activities (shower, softener regen)
- No alerts received after update
- App crashes and shuts off water
- Buggy and terrible UX
- App crashing on 3/10/2024
- App shows device offline incorrectly
- App update caused connectivity loss
- App won't allow device naming/saving
- App asks for setup repeatedly
- App works only on Android, not iPhone
- App kicks user out, requires password reset, forgets devices/history
- App crashes after reinstall
- App stuck on opening screen
- App doesn't recognize home WiFi network
- App deletes account setup
- App doesn't load properly
- App recalibrates when opened past home page
- App disconnects from server
- App shows offline message
- App doesn't stay logged in
- App is dormant, cannot load
- 504 Gateway Time-Out error
- Historical data needs better display (minutes, calendar access)
- Water running status rarely correct
- App is unstable
- App prone to crashes
- Fails to connect
- Tells user there's a leak when there isn't
- Failure with firmware status
- Unit would not connect to iPhone
- App stuck at calibration step
Requested features
11 requests- Add Apple Watch compatibility
- Allow specified alert sound for leaks
- Integrate with Google Home/Home/Away status
- Support for password managers
- Display historical data for previous days
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- Calendar interface for historical data access
- Real-time meter for last 60 minutes
- Ability to input unusual water events beforehand
- Improve API access for free users
- Allow multiple devices per account
- Fix iPhone compatibility issues
Crestron Go
Reported bugs
27 issues- App crashes on iOS 16.4.1
- Project upload fails from VTProe
- Black screen on rotation or app re-launch
- App freezes upon opening
- App crashes constantly, especially on rotation
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- App hangs and crashes on iOS 16
- Keyboard not working in landscape mode
- Cannot enter credentials on new iPhone
- App breaks with OS 16 upgrade
- Family sharing not working
- WiFi IP address changing on new iPhone
- Volume bar not working
- App not working after transferring to new iPhone
- Settings page not showing completely
- Restore purchase directs to pay again
- App freezes when switching between apps
- Connection failures
- Cannot restore purchase through family share
- App fails to acknowledge prior in-app purchase
- Endless loop when migrating to new iPhone
- iTunes error during purchase recovery
- App stopped working after phone restore
- App doesn't work with new iPhone
- Intermittent issues with new iPhones
- App not working at all
- Setup issues on new iPhone
- App crashes before start
Requested features
9 requests- Fix restore purchase functionality
- Enable family sharing
- Improve app stability on new iOS releases
- Address keyboard issues in landscape mode
- Ensure settings transfer to new devices
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- Provide better consumer support
- Update app more frequently
- Fix volume bar functionality
- Improve app intuitiveness
In-app purchases
StreamLabs
No in-app purchases
Crestron Go
- Crestron Go - Default$99.99








