Third Reality vs Flame Detector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Third Reality
Control your home's lights and switches remotely with smart devices. This app allows you to configure hubs, add smart switches and bulbs, group devices for easy control, and set lighting schedules. Voice assistant integration is also supported.
- Remote control of lights and switches
- Configure smart home hubs
- Add and manage smart switches and bulbs
- Group devices for unified control
- Create lighting schedules
- Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Google Home)
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THE SIMPLIEST PATH TO A SMARTER HOME Take complete control of your home or apartment’s switches and lights from anywhere with the Reality Series of Smart Home devices. RealityAdapter connects all your Third Reality devices to your home network RealitySwitch turns any existing switch into a smart switch Set lights to reflect your mood with SmartBulbs Use RealityApp to configure and control your Smart Home RealityApp FEATURES Configure RealityAdapter hub to communicate with your home network and connect all Third Reality devices Add, name and configure RealitySwitches and RealityBulbs Group multiple devices to control from your smartphone with one button Create timers to control lighting schedules Connect Amazon Alexa or Google Home voice assistants to manage all your devices with voice commands Apple Notes: The app utilizes Location Services to record the location of your Remote Plus when you add it to your account and also when you ring it. Continue use of GPS or Bluetooth running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Flame Detector
This app offers advanced flame detection for your home, alerting you to fires hundreds of times faster than traditional smoke alarms. It's designed for spaces where flames should never be, providing instant notifications to your smart device.
- Detects flame hundreds of times faster than smoke alarms
- Instant alerts to smart devices
- Monitors spaces where flames should not exist
- Designed for bedrooms, playrooms, and garages
- Provides real-time fire notifications
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Welcome to a whole new level of fire protection like you’ve never seen before. Developed by a leading-edge team of scientists and fire detection engineers, The Flame Detector is the only product of its kind on the market today. Designed to detect flame, it can detect many home fires hundreds of times faster than traditional smoke alarms. Detect flame in seconds, alerting you to fire much faster and helping prevent fire from ever getting out of hand in the first place. How does a Flame Detector compare to a smoke alarm? Smoke alarms work by detecting small particles of combustion (smoke) that must travel into the smoke alarm’s sensing chamber before ever alarming. Depending on the location of the fire to the proximity of the smoke alarm, it can take tens of minutes before a smoke alarm is activated. The Flame Detector, on the other hand, constantly monitors for the presence of flame in your home, and the moment it detects unwanted fire, you’re notified. It’s that simple! The Flame Detector is beautifully designed to monitor spaces where a flame should never exist, like a child’s bedroom, playroom or even your garage. Thousands of home fires are started by children every year, and more than half of those fires originate in the bedroom. With a Flame Detector, the moment a child lights a match a loud alarm is produced and a push notification is sent to your smart device telling you exactly where the fire started. When dealing with fire, seconds truly count! With the Flame Detector, you can be made aware of flame instantaneously, preventing dangerous home fires from ever occurring.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flame Detector at 100% against Third Reality's 12%. Flame Detector also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2). Third Reality's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 4). 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.
Flame Detector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Third Reality has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of Third Reality's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flame Detector's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Third Reality | Flame Detector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Third Reality, Inc | Forge Technologies, Inc (NC) |
Customer experience
Third Reality
Flame Detector
In-app purchases
Third Reality
No in-app purchases
Flame Detector
No in-app purchases
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