TailWind Smart vs Vaelor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TailWind Smart
Automate your garage door with smart technology. This app allows you to remotely open, close, and check the status of your garage doors. It can also automatically open as you arrive and close as you leave, enhancing security and convenience.
- Automatic opening and closing
- Remote control from anywhere
- Vehicle detection for specific door opening
- Customizable alerts and schedules
- Activity history log
- Unlimited user access
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Don’t just open your garage door with your smartphone. Automate it. Tailwind can close your garage door as you leave, open it when you arrive – all automatically. No buttons. No keypads. Just drive. The Tailwind app allows you to open, close, or check the status of your garage doors from anywhere using your mobile device, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and our iQ3 smart garage door controller (purchased separately). Check out the list of things you can do with Tailwind: Automatically open the door as you approach Automatically close the door as you leave (if you forget to close it) Detect which vehicle you’re driving so it knows which door to open or close (can even work with motorcycles, ATVs, etc)* Automatically close all your garage doors at night, even if someone opens them again! Receive customize alerts telling you who opened the garage door and when See a history log of all activity for the last 30 days Create alert schedules so you only receive alerts at certain times of the day Unlimited users * may require optional Tailwind Vehicle Sensor
Vaelor
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Most Tesla apps are dashboards — you check them. Vaelor is an agent: it learns when you leave, where you park and what your battery needs, then handles it before you even think about it. A DAY WITH VAELOR 7:15 AM — It learned you leave at 7:30. The cabin was 116°F; it's already cool by the time you grab your keys. 12:40 PM — You park at the supermarket. One notification, one tap — the AC stays on and you walk back to a cool car. 2:50 PM — Your car's been baking in the office lot. Vaelor pings you on its own: one tap and it's cooling before you're back. No setup — it just watches. 5:10 PM — It knows you leave work around 5:30 and offers to pre-cool for the drive home. 6:30 PM — Visiting family? Tell it how long you'll stay and it pre-cools right before you head out, instead of wasting battery the whole visit. 11:00 PM — Plugged in at home, it waits for off-peak rates and charges to exactly what tomorrow needs. Cheaper energy, healthier battery. Every night. WHAT IT DOES • Predictive departures — learns your real routine from how you actually drive, and tells a Tuesday morning apart from a Saturday one • Departure reminders — "Leaving at 7:56, want me to pre-cool?" with one-tap actions • Arrival pre-cool — keep-cool asks at quick stops, smart pre-cool at long visits • Hot-cabin safety net — alerts you when the cabin bakes, one tap to fix • Smart charging — time-of-use aware, charges in the cheapest window and finishes right before you leave; manual control always wins • Battery guardrails — reserve floors, overstay auto-shutoff, no comfort cooling when range matters • Insights — EV vs gas savings, vampire drain, efficiency patterns, and exactly what Vaelor did for you • Siri & widgets — "Hey Siri, get my Tesla ready", home-screen widget, Live Activities while charging TRY IT WITHOUT COMMITTING The full interactive demo runs on a simulated car — tour every feature before connecting your Tesla or paying anything. FREE VS PRO Free: manual controls, trips, learned places, hot-cabin safety alert. Vaelor Pro: the proactive brain — predictive departures, arrival asks, smart charging, weather intelligence and Insights. PRIVACY FIRST You authorize through Tesla's own official sign-in (Fleet API) — Vaelor never sees your Tesla password. No ads, no selling data. Delete your account and all data in-app, anytime. Vaelor is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tesla, Inc. Tesla is a trademark of Tesla, Inc. A compatible Tesla vehicle is required for live features. Terms of Use (EULA): https://vaelor.nsightlytics.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://vaelor.nsightlytics.com/privacy.html Vaelor Pro is an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or annual). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vaelor at 5.0 against TailWind Smart's 3.4. TailWind Smart's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (90 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Vaelor sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. TailWind Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vaelor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TailWind Smart has 90 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | TailWind Smart | Vaelor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (90 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1931085 Ontario Ltd | Nsightlytics LLC |
Bugs and requests
TailWind Smart
Reported bugs
34 issues- Cannot enable Bluetooth during setup
- Location services need manual enabling
- App prompts to download unavailable update
- Auto open no longer works
- App can't diagnose or update firmware
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- App no longer allows adding a vehicle
- App always signed out after update
- Location triggers rarely work
- Update broke auto-close
- Settings changed to auto-close unexpectedly
- iOS widgets no longer work
- Frequently signed out and have to re-authenticate
- Garage doors deleted from app after sign-out
- Unable to close door, shows 'lockout'
- Clicking on one door opens/closes the other
- Massive battery drain for iOS users
- Auto open/close feature works sporadically for iPhone users
- App is buggy
- Garage door shows up sometimes, sometimes not
- Vehicle shows up sometimes, sometimes not
- Garage door shows as 'null'
- Notifications about turning sensor off/on incorrectly displayed
- Horrible battery drain
- Background battery drain issue
- Auto open/close doesn't always work on iPhones
- Auto open feature through IFTTT no longer works after iOS 13
- App crashes on iPad when clicking login
- Consistent backgrounding problem, requires app kill to connect
- Logs out user, password reset fails
- Registration of email didn't work
- App testing severely lacking
- Signs you out all the time at random
- IFTTT integration doesn't work with Apple
- App can't use Bluetooth from iPhone but can with Android
Requested features
8 requests- Clearer setup flow with firmware update check
- Documentation matching latest UX
- HomeKit integration release
- Siri Shortcuts improvement
- Watch face complication for watch app
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- Disable notifications while home using location services
- Manage 'admin' settings
- Fix iPad crash on login
Vaelor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TailWind Smart
No in-app purchases
Vaelor
- Vaelor Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Vaelor Pro Annual$59.991 Year









