iotty Smart Home vs RISEN
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
RISEN
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RISEN helps you nurture your journeys. Every meaningful journey begins with a single Rise. Create personal journeys called Rises, preserve memories with photos and videos, capture meaningful moments, celebrate milestones, and watch your journey grow over time. As each Rise develops, RISEN automatically creates a Rise Story, bringing together your memories, moments, milestones, and progress into a beautiful timeline you can revisit, reflect on, and share. Whether you're nurturing your health, family, plants, animals, learning, business, or life's everyday moments, RISEN gives every journey a place to grow. Features Create unlimited personal Rises Preserve photo and video memories Record Moments and Milestones Automatically build a Rise Story as your journey grows Public, Private and Unlisted journeys Discover inspiring public Rises Daily Reflection Your Grove Your Legacy Secure account management
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Verdict
iotty Smart Home and RISEN are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 ships an update every 5 weeks, RISEN every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iotty Smart Home | RISEN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (156 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 39.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 156 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dynamica srl | Khangelani Mpongwana |
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
RISEN
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iotty Smart Home
No in-app purchases
RISEN
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iotty Smart Home free?
Is RISEN free?
Do iotty Smart Home or RISEN have ads?
Which is updated more often, iotty Smart Home or RISEN?
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