Comparison

Thingview vs SIEGENIA HomeConnect

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Thingview

Visualize your ThingSpeak data channels with ease. Simply input your channel ID to start viewing your data in a user-friendly interface.

Highlights
  • Visualize ThingSpeak channels
  • Enter channel ID to view data
  • Easy to use interface
  • Data visualization tool
Features
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ThingView enables you to visualize your ThingSpeak channels in an easy way, just enter the channel ID and you are ready to go.

About

SIEGENIA HomeConnect

Design your home's comfort with smart products. This app provides a quick and easy way to monitor and manage your home's smart devices from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Design home comfort with smart products
  • Monitor home devices
  • Manage smart products
  • Quick and easy control
  • Remote access
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Welcome to the SIEGENIA HomeConnect app – This innovative app allows you to design home comfort with smart products from SIEGENIA. The ultimate solution for monitoring and managing your home quickly and easily, wherever you are.

Screenshots

Thingview4 screens
SIEGENIA HomeConnect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SIEGENIA HomeConnect at Free against Thingview's $1.99. SIEGENIA HomeConnect also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Thingview's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 20%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months).

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SIEGENIA HomeConnect is free to download; Thingview costs $1.99 up front. Thingview sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SIEGENIA HomeConnect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thingview ships an update every 2 months, SIEGENIA HomeConnect every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Thingview versus SIEGENIA HomeConnect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThingviewSIEGENIA HomeConnect
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcelo ProloSIEGENIA-AUBI KG

Customer experience

Thingview

All ratings35 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral8.6%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral18.9%
Negative31.1%

SIEGENIA HomeConnect

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

Thingview

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • App closes abruptly when creating channel
  • App does not open on mobile version
  • Search button covered by keyboard when adding channel
  • Only 3 days of data displayed
  • Time scale fixed to two hours on overview screen
Show 15 more
  • Zoom axes option has no effect
  • Latest version displays graphs on left 1/3 of screen
  • Display shrunk on iPad/iPhone
  • Stopped using full screen, wide border on right/bottom
  • Only graph/trend available, other widgets not visible
  • Year button shows same data as month button
  • Month and year time presets do not work
  • App crashes immediately after clicking on channel
  • Invalid URL error when adding channel
  • App isn't working with iOS 14 after changing standard browser
  • Not possible to retrieve data for a complete year
  • App closes when consulting a channel
  • Refresh button doesn't work and crashes app
  • App crashes randomly
  • Asking to purchase app again after reinstalling

Requested features

13 requests
  • Add status update reporting
  • Add lat/long display
  • Add alert/notification options
  • Add widget support
  • Add auto-refresh functionality
Show 8 more
  • Add Apple Watch functionality
  • Allow user-defined Y-axis max scale
  • Allow plot color to follow ThingSpeak settings
  • Show date along with time on X-axis
  • Improve visibility of selected panel/point
  • Move last reading number to bottom left
  • Add dark mode option
  • Add ability to set desired data amount (points or time)

SIEGENIA HomeConnect

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Thingview

One-time1
  • Thingview Full$1.99
None

SIEGENIA HomeConnect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thingview free?
Thingview costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is SIEGENIA HomeConnect free?
SIEGENIA HomeConnect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thingview or SIEGENIA HomeConnect have ads?
Thingview shows ads; SIEGENIA HomeConnect does not.
Which is updated more often, Thingview or SIEGENIA HomeConnect?
Thingview ships an update every 2 months, and SIEGENIA HomeConnect every 6 months. Most recently, Thingview was updated on October 24, 2026 and SIEGENIA HomeConnect on October 17, 2026.

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