HSBuddy vs HomeSeer Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HSBuddy
Control your HomeSeer home automation system from your mobile device and Apple Watch. Manage devices, run events, view camera feeds, and create custom dashboards. Automate tasks with Siri shortcuts and widgets.
- Control and edit devices
- Run and edit events
- View camera feeds
- Customizable dashboards
- Siri shortcuts
- Home Screen widgets
- Push notifications
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HSBuddy is a free application for iOS® that turns your mobile device into the ultimate companion for your HomeSeer® home automation system. With the included Apple Watch companion app you can take control of your home from your wrist! Certain features require an additional HomeSeer controller plug-in which you can install from the plug-in manager in your HomeSeer configuration pages. Look for HSBuddy under the User Interfaces section. Complement your home automation experience and use HSBuddy to: • Control and edit devices • Run and edit events • View history of device state changes * • View images from your home cameras ** • Create your own customized dashboards • Speed up your daily automation tasks » Create Siri shortcuts » Place Widgets for your Home Screen • Send push-notifications to your devices as part of your server events • Browse your HomeSeer server logs * • Enable geo-location on the app and location-based events * • Automatically switch between local-WiFi and remote connectivity to your server based on your location. • Connect to multiple HomeSeer servers and switch quickly between them • Use Smart Tags to quickly control a device or run an event by tapping a tag with your phone *Requires installing the free HSBuddy HomeSeer controller plug-in **Compatible with some existing HomeSeer controller camera plug-ins To use this app you need a running instance of HomeSeer. To find out more, visit http://www.homeseer.com For more information and troubleshooting help, go to http://hsbuddy.avglabs.net
HomeSeer Mobile
Control and monitor your smart home devices from anywhere. Create custom dashboards for quick access to lighting, security, and cameras. Launch automation events and manage your entire HomeSeer system with a single login.
- Customizable dashboards
- Smart camera monitoring
- Device control
- Automation event launching
- Single login access
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With HomeSeer Mobile, your smart home is always within reach! • Create custom dashboards for quick access to lighting, security and often used devices • Monitor your smart cameras • Control any devices connected to your HomeSeer system • Launch HomeSeer automation events • Access any of your HomeSeer systems with a single login (MyHS Remote Premium Required) Requirements: • Any HomeSeer system running HS3 software v3.0.0.500 or higher.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HSBuddy at 76% against HomeSeer Mobile's 23%. HSBuddy also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.3). HomeSeer Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
HSBuddy holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 67 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of HSBuddy's written reviews are positive against 23% of HomeSeer Mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HSBuddy | HomeSeer Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (29 ratings) — better | 2.3 (67 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 23.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 67 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonio Vargas Garcia | HomeSeer |
Customer experience
HSBuddy
HomeSeer Mobile
Bugs and requests
HSBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HomeSeer Mobile
Reported bugs
174 issues- No local connection on iOS
- App not updated in 4 years
- App not updated in 3 years
- Can't edit/save widgets on dashboard
- Save button not visible
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- Formatted for very old iPhones
- No support
- Last update 2020
- iOS version hasn't been touched in over 2 years
- Buggy as heck, select clear dashboard, select clear and nothing
- All my devices are still there after clearing dashboard
- Solid red and green colors with blinding white background
- Most difficult install ever and still not working
- App won't accept password even after multiple resets
- Useless
- Dimmer sliders don't work on widgets
- Only about 50% of my devices show up
- Devices don't show up in the device list of the new app
- Older hs3 app never had this problem
- Switches and virtual devices appear, but door/window sensors don't
- Sensors are Homeseer branded items
- Camera/DVR service is anemic
- Viewing space in the app is reduced by PTZ controls
- No way to hide the PTZ controls
- Cloud recording service is useless
- iPhone good; iPad bad!
- Control functions won't work on iPad
- Shows status, but no control function on iPad
- Very buggy
- Not all functions are passed through the widget, like the dimmer slider
- Okay experience but screenshots and what you can do are misleading
- Not working with 3.x anymore
- Controls don't display inside icons
- Response time is slow
- Status indicators aren't accurate
- Virtually useless now
- Nickel and dime to death
- Each plugin costs 60 dollars
- Good for only a few devices
- Doesn't support a lot of devices
- Roughly about 8 devices show up
- Refresh after refresh and filter after filter and not one additional device shows up
- Amazon echo does a better job at detecting devices
- Mobile phones screen sizes change so much that HS3 designer just can't keep up or scale anything worth a crap
- Complete garbage software
- Didn't work
- After a week of going back and forth with Tech support inferring I was powering up the cameras wrong
- App doesn't transfer your new password to the camera
- Displayed two of my cameras with image from one
- The app works, but it still needs more work
- Very limited functionality
- Seems like it’s still in Beta stage
- Backup Restore
- Don't have time to build for each one
- Shouldn't have to complain about this issue
- Desperately need a method to backup or export a dashboard
- Better refresh when entering the app after it has been in the background
- Crashes often
- Confirm before control option does not work
- Latest version has improved performance
- Miss HS3TOUCH
- Requiring a design license to use HS3TOUCH
- Few seconds delay at times
- Time it takes the command to get to HomeSeer server and return to the ZEE S2
- Haven’t seen any failure to respond like previous version
- What Happened?
- App worked a few days ago
- Now getting invalid URI error upon app opening
- Luckily Google Assistant works 100% of the time
- Needs to go back to beta
- Can’t Use It
- Controller used to work dependably
- Last couple of months they made several changes and uploads
- Cannot use it
- Cannot even log into the account
- Don’t want to spend hours again, figuring this out
- Cannot tell the difference between a developer and user
- Still flaky on iOS
- Gave me an update notice when I try to login
- System 98697 not compatible
- Please update from 3.0.0.475 to 3.0.0.478 or newer
- Needed to update my HomeTroller software
- Needs a lot of work
- Half Developed
- Nowhere near functional
- Devices that show in the old app do not in this app
- We can't share dashboards
- Meant to automate and make life easier
- Shouldn’t have to configure every mobile device individually
- Major step backwards
- Doesn’t work
- Took the one away that worked
- Replaced with this garbage
- Worst product failure I have ever seen
- Whole point of home automation today is to be able to use mobile devices
- Did you even test this?
- Someone needs to be fired
- “Unexpected error”
- DOES NOT WORK
- Why take away the app that *worked* to replace it with one that doesn’t?
- Garbage
- Unexpected Error even with latest HomeSeer Firmware
- None of my security systems touch a cloud system
- Connect direct and have a valid certificate in use
- Yet since day one I get “Unexpected Error. Please try again. An unexpected network error has occurred.”
- It would be nice if these systems, solutions, and mobile apps were designed with enough intuitive responses to help us figure out our issues without us having to go google support pages for the buried answers to our problems
- Giving a general error like the one above is pretty much useless to most people unless you have a doctorate in tech support
- This app is an embarrassment
- Not intuitive at all
- HSTouch default app was fine for those of us who just want to turn stuff on and off with a basic, clean interface
- Now they take away the old app (that worked!) and replace it with this
- Very disappointed
- Needs something extra.....
- Dashboards are a lot more user friendly
- Add in the functionality so that this app with its dashboards can be used as a control hub
- Graphical design and ease of use was done by the developers instead of bribing in some artistic and creative help
- Huge improvement over the oldApp but lacking
- Having difficulty with adding devices to the dashboard
- Most of them show “gray lines” that you have to actually tap on to get more controls
- Is this intense behavior?
- In the devices section, all the controls for each device are present
- When you edit the widget on the dashboard you select which controls are present but it doesn’t matter since it still gray horizontal lines that you have to tap on
- Will this be fixed soon?
- Emailed support days ago without a response
- Clothespin on my nose
- Man on Man
- Worst App that I have ever downloaded from the App Store
- Apple sure missed the boat on this one because this app is completely useless
- Does not work
- Bombs out as soon as you add a device
- Crap software
- Awkward
- Help section tells you what to do for iOS but action doesn’t work
- App crashes every time you hit save
- Can’t see the name of the device on the widget
- Much work to do on this
- Crashes when adding widgets
- The app crashes every time I try to add a widget to the home screen
- Beginnings
- The guys still have some work to do
- Good start on a new approach to mobile
- Software still feels like it’s in its beta stage
- Needs Work
- App crashes every time you edit a widget
- Worked fine 2 days ago
- Awesome.... yeah no.. crashes all the time!
- Did they even test this?
- Crashes for darn near anything
- Adding a device it crashes
- Modify a device it crashes
- Make a change anywhere yup you guessed it crashes!
- SACappishorrible
- Crashes when adding a device
- iPhone and iPad app crash when adding a widget to dashboard
- Quick add works but then you can't edit the widget or it will crash the app
- Fantastic HomeSeer interface
- HsTouch was a tired user interface
- Used it only when necessary
- HomeSeer Mobile is a modern UI
- Sets up easy and is very fast
- Nest is easier and faster to control here than the Nest app
- Dashboard approach is a nice way to quickly organize rooms and or functions
- Great effort
- Really added value and life to my HomeSeer investments
- Really happy
- It be even better if I could sync dashboards from devices
- No dealbreaker
- Takes a little time to setup
- Far less than HS3TOUCH designer
- Now to delete that software
- Still needs work
- User buttons on the HomeSeer to run the Omni
- Buttons configured for rooms show up correctly on the web page but on this app they only show up when listing all and not by room
- It would also be nice to select some items not to display due the smaller screen as apposed to a computer monitor
Requested features
22 requests- Remote connection to manage home system
- Professional-looking UI
- Ability to edit/save widgets
- Support for older iPhones
- Better documentation
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- Clearer change logs
- Integrate security cameras
- Customizable beautiful home screens
- One decent app for the system
- Ability to backup or export a dashboard
- Better refresh when entering app after background
- Password lockout for editing
- Ability to hide PTZ controls
- Sync dashboards from devices
- Refine dashboards for user-friendliness
- Functionality for control hub
- Slick and easy to setup/use like ImperiHome
- Dedicated forum for suggestions
- Select items not to display on smaller screens
- User buttons for rooms to show correctly
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
HSBuddy
No in-app purchases
HomeSeer Mobile
No in-app purchases
