Aqara Home vs MARSTEK
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aqara Home
Manage and automate your smart home devices remotely. Control lights, monitor sensors, and create custom scenes and automations for a more convenient living experience. Supports a wide range of smart home accessories.
- Remote control of smart accessories
- Create homes and rooms
- Monitor appliance status and environmental data
- Automate actions with timers and triggers
- Create scenes for multi-device control
- Siri integration for voice control
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Aqara Home is an app for smart home automation and control. With Aqara Home, you can: 1. control Aqara accessories anywhere and anytime where there is Internet access; 2. create homes and rooms and assign accessories to the rooms; 3. control your Aqara accessories and check the status of connected appliances. For example: *adjust the brightness of lights and check the power consumption of home appliances; *monitor the temperature, humidity and air pressure; *detect water leak, and human movement; 4. create Automations to automate your home. For example: *set a timer to turn on or off an appliance connected to a smart plug; *use a Door and Window Sensor to trigger lights: turn on lights automatically when the door opens; 5. create Scenes to control multiple accessories. For example, add a Scene to turn on multiple lights and fans; 6. ask Siri to control HomeKit supported Aqara accessories and user defined Scenes; Aqara Home app supports following Aqara accessories: Aqara Hub, Smart Plug, Wireless Remote Switch, LED Light Bulb, Door and Window Sensor, Motion Sensor, Temperature and Humidity Sensor, Vibration Sensor, and Water Leak Sensor. Please see www.aqara.com for more details.
MARSTEK
Monitor your solar energy system in real-time. Optimize for energy independence, outage protection, or savings by setting your preferences. Control your system remotely and receive instant alerts.
- Real-time solar energy monitoring
- Customizable optimization settings
- Remote system control
- Instant alerts
- Energy independence focus
- Outage protection settings
- Savings optimization
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With the Marstek app, you can monitor solar energy in real-time. Set your preferences to optimize for energy independence, outage protection, or savings. Control your system from anywhere with remote access and instant alerts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Aqara Home at 7.8K against MARSTEK's 16. Aqara Home also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Aqara Home holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aqara Home has 7.8K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Aqara Home's written reviews are positive against 36% of MARSTEK's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aqara Home | MARSTEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.8K ratings) — better | 4.4 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.4% of reviews — better | 35.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.8K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 539 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Aqara Software Service Co.,Ltd. | Hamedata Technology Co., Limited |
Customer experience
Aqara Home
MARSTEK
Bugs and requests
Aqara Home
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on opening
- Devices disappearing from app
- Incorrect temperature/humidity readings
- Delayed or missing doorbell notifications
- Inability to delete detection zones
Requested features
5 requests- Add sunset/sunrise automation
- Improve camera timeline scrubbing
- Enable 12-hour time format
- Provide more customization options
- Improve Alexa/Google Home integration
MARSTEK
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Aqara Home
No in-app purchases
MARSTEK
No in-app purchases









