Messana vs Luma View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Messana
Manage your home's climate and energy from anywhere. This app offers fine-tuned control over temperature, air quality, and humidity for ultimate comfort. It integrates with complex hydronic systems and smart home platforms for seamless automation.
- Remote climate control
- Customizable schedules
- Apple HomeKit integration
- Indoor air quality monitoring
- System performance graphing
- Energy source management
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Messana - Complete climate control at your fingertips. The Messana App is an innovative energy management and climate control platform for luxury homes that provides an unique user experience for the owners of a Messana mControls hardware platform. The app allows users to control their conditioning system from anywhere in the world and fine-tune their environment to deliver the most comfortable temperatures, air quality, and humidity, to achieve true Thermal Wellbeing™. - Designed for complex hydronic systems integrating radiant floors, radiant ceilings, and fan coils. - Integrates with supplemental VRV/VRF systems (additional gateway required). - Simple and easy to use, equipped with fully customizable schedules that apply to various functionalities. - Integrates with Apple HomeKit to enable Siri voice control as an extra layer of control, creating powerful automation and scenes. - Customizable dashboard for full control of your energy sources, buffer tanks, hydronic systems, domestic hot water tanks, fan coils, and HRV units. - Controls indoor air quality (IAQ) and humidity. - Advanced heating and cooling changeover capability. Can be set to manual, weekly schedule, or automatic with adaptive logic. - Integrated graph tools to evaluate system performance and diagnose potential issues. - Connects to the Messana mConnect platform directly through the home local network or via the internet. This app fits seamlessly into your life to provide perfect climate control at your fingertips, precisely when and where you want it. NOTE: To work properly, the App requires a Messana mControls hardware platform with a user account. Contact us for more information.
Luma View
Monitor your security cameras remotely with live HD video streaming, event playback, and recording capabilities. Features include smart event search with object filtering, customizable grid views, and audio support. Manage multiple devices and access your footage anytime, anywhere from your tablet or mobile.
- HD live viewing (single/split screen)
- Synchronized playback (up to 16 channels)
- Smart Event Search (human/vehicle filtering)
- Push notifications for events
- Customizable grid views
- Snapshot and video recording
- Two-way audio support
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The all new Luma View app offers powerful features at your fingertips, allows you check on what matters – anytime, anywhere. Watch live video, user-friendly event search, playback, and save recordings, or take a snapshot all from your tablet or mobile device. • Enjoy HD live viewing of a single or split screen (4, 9, or 16 channels simultaneously) in both portrait and landscape modes with convenient pinch to zoom • Synchronize playback up to 16 channels • User-friendly Smart Event Search with human and vehicle filtering • Push message offer quick overview of latest events • Auto switch between high or standard resolution depending on your remote connection • Customize your grid views for multi-device management – Drag and drop cameras where you’d like them, even across multiple DVRs/NVRs • Easily scan timeline and playback to find recordings and events • Instantly capture snapshots or record videos with a tap of your finger • Add snapshots and video to your photo library for safe keeping or to share with family, friends, or colleagues • Listen or speak to whoever is on the other end (Audio support varies by camera model) • Remotely control pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Messana at 5.0 against Luma View's 1.7. Messana also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). Luma View's advantage is review sentiment (13% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Messana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Messana's written reviews are positive against 13% of Luma View's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Messana ships an update monthly, Luma View every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Messana | Luma View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 12.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Messana Radiant Cooling | Wirepath Home Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
Messana
Luma View
Bugs and requests
Messana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Luma View
Reported bugs
75 issues- Crashes on open
- App changes settings
- App breaks and won't open
- Issues with showing recordings or playback
- Misses footage
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- Cannot consistently access recordings
- Continuously quits working on iPhones
- Notifications not working
- Cannot see live feed
- Constantly glitching
- Notifications stop working
- Constantly stops working
- Requires deleting and reinstalling to fix
- Broken on iOS 26
- Crashes on Apple devices
- Clients cannot access cameras
- Needs update for iOS 26
- Always offline
- Reload every time it's used
- Have to uninstall and install every 3 months for alerts
- Crashes before loading screen
- No sound for notifications
- Doesn't always record
- Sound not very clear
- App crashes
- App won't open
- App crashes all the time
- Does not work with iOS 26/iPhone 17 Pro
- Freezes on startup screen and closes
- Can't connect
- Won't launch
- App does not work with latest iOS
- App does not launch
- Incredibly slow
- Periodically crashes
- Intrusion alerts stop working
- Terrible bug for a surveillance system
- Does not work with iOS 26
- Black screen with logo then crashes
- Broken
- Doesn't work at all
- Fails to record notifications
- Doorbell cam issues
- App hasn't worked from the start
- No iPad version
- Difficult to navigate
- Cannot access desired video point
- Always something wrong
- Not very reliable
- App makes cameras useless
- Notifications not working
- App icon notification numbers never reset
- Connection drops every time app is opened
- Fails to connect
- Cannot see cameras
- Monthly connection issues
- Barely functional
- Clunky app
- Cameras disappear for no reason
- Rarely functional
- App skipping
- Freezes for 3-4 seconds
- Opening app and seeing cameras is super slow
- Cameras constantly falling off connection
- Add Favorite Button missing
- Sends motion detection messages but devices offline
- Recent update messed everything up
- Connection failed in June, can't login in July
- Forgot password link not sending email
- New version blows up with 16 channel DVR
- Connection failed half the time
- Needs updating
- Not able to be put on Mac or PC
- Cannot cast to TV
- Cannot view on Mac or PC
Requested features
16 requests- Distinguish between people, animal, car, package
- Facial recognition and saving
- Ability to search by name
- Search with a single word
- Add skip ahead function
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- Add x2 speed option
- Add iPad version
- Add Mac or PC version
- Add ability to cast to TV
- Add Favorite Button
- Add dark mode
- Improve user interface for average user
- Add ability to distinguish between event types (people, animals, cars, packages)
- Implement facial recognition
- Allow searching by name or keyword
- Add x2 playback speed
In-app purchases
Messana
No in-app purchases
Luma View
No in-app purchases
