iotty Smart Home vs Porter Setup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iotty Smart Home
Manage your smart home devices, including lights, blinds, and outlets. Create custom scenarios and automations based on location, time, or environmental factors. Monitor energy usage and air quality.
- Control lights, blinds, and outlets
- Create custom scenarios and automations
- Location-based and time-based triggers
- Sunrise/sunset and weather automations
- Monitor energy consumption
- Real-time air quality information
- Manage multiple homes and rooms
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Take full control of your 24-hour iotty Smart Home: control lights, blinds, and outlets by creating endless scenarios and automations based on your location, time of day, or events such as sunrise, sunset, weather, brightness, and room temperature. - In-app installation guide for quick and easy setup - Monitor energy consumption and spending estimates based on your electricity contract - View real-time air quality information for where you live to perform specific actions - Manage multiple homes, favorite scenarios, individual rooms, and individual dishes by assigning functions for each button - Give me five! functionality to perform an additional command by placing the open hand on the plate
Porter Setup
Easily share your Wi-Fi network access with others using a QR code or a single tap. This app configures the QR code and One-Tap Wi-Fi features of your device.
- Secure Wi-Fi sharing
- One-tap connection
- QR code generation
- Device configuration
- iPhone camera integration
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Wifi Porter securely shares your network with a single tap or scan. The experience is amazing on an iPhone. Open the iPhone camera, point it at the QR code on Wifi Porter and you’ll be prompted immediately to connect. Use this app to configure One-Tap Wifi and the QR code portion of your Wifi Porter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iotty Smart Home at 5.0 against Porter Setup's 1.9. iotty Smart Home also leads on review sentiment (39% vs 19%) and ratings volume (81 vs 21). On price, update cadence, 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.
iotty Smart Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of iotty Smart Home's written reviews are positive against 19% of Porter Setup's.
iotty Smart Home ships an update every 5 weeks, Porter Setup every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iotty Smart Home | Porter Setup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (81 ratings) — better | 1.9 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.2% of reviews — better | 19.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dynamica srl | Ten One Design |
Customer experience
iotty Smart Home
Porter Setup
Bugs and requests
iotty Smart Home
Reported bugs
20 issues- App displays 'Error occurred' on button presses
- Login issues and forced logouts
- Firmware update failures
- Automation routines fail to execute
- App freezes when setting up automations
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- Devices disappear from app after updates
- Cannot add or delete devices
- WiFi reconnection failures after power outages
- Touch sensitivity malfunction
- Backlight control issues
- Daylight saving time not recognized
- Widget functionality removed in updates
- Siri integration broken after updates
- App incompatibility with iOS 14+
- Device pairing errors during registration
- Slow command execution (10+ seconds)
- App crashes on vacation mode selection
- Session timeout errors during configuration
- Blind/shutter buttons stuck during operation
- Devices not responding despite good WiFi signal
Requested features
17 requests- Apple Watch app version
- HomeKit and Matter integration
- Widget support for iOS
- Dark mode option
- Manual time setting for blinds/shutters
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- Graphical representation of blind position
- Multi-device group activation
- Background geolocation functionality
- IFTTT and Google Home integration
- Improved Siri voice control
- Scheduled firmware updates
- Random on/off mode restoration
- Ability to modify touch sensitivity for outlets
- Better multi-way switch support
- Improved app UI with smaller switch icons
- French language support
- Simpler WiFi network change process
Porter Setup
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iotty Smart Home
No in-app purchases
Porter Setup
No in-app purchases
Questions
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