Comparison

SmartTub® vs Home Centered

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

Head to head
About

SmartTub®

This app acts as a personal hot tub assistant, providing tailored tips, how-to videos, and information based on your usage. It allows remote control of settings, energy usage estimates, and notifications for maintenance or power outages, ensuring you're always informed about your hot tub's status.

Highlights
  • Personalized hot tub tips and how-to videos
  • Remote adjustment of temperature and energy efficiency
  • Energy usage estimates
  • Power outage notifications
  • Dealer alerts for maintenance
  • Remote connection to dealer service
Features
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The SmartTub® app is your personal hot tub assistant, making you a hot tub expert. Acting as a quick reference guide, your app tailors tips, how-to videos and information based on how you use your hot tub. Whether you're across town or in the comfort of your own home, you can relax knowing you will always be informed with the SmartTub™ System. o Enjoy easy setup -- just pair your app o Discover enhanced product knowledge and support o Master hot tub care with personalized tips and how-to videos o View energy usage estimates** o Adjust key settings, such as energy efficiency and temperature while away o Receive power outage notifications to reduce complications o Alerts you and your dealer when your hot tub needs attention o Stay connected with your dealer and 'Click for Service' Requirements * SmartTub™ hardware installed on hot tub, compatible with 2018+ Hot Tubs * SmartTub™ system uses cellular-based communication and requires cell service from our provider partner in your area. * Requires subscription beginning in second year of ownership, first year included in the price of purchase. **Estimates are based on sensor readings and are not meant to match your utility measurements, see your local utility company for specifics to your local system.

About

Home Centered

This app helps you track home maintenance and cleaning schedules. It provides reminders for tasks like filter changes and logs completion history with costs and photos. Cleaning is managed without overdue notifications, focusing on what was actually done.

Highlights
  • Maintenance task tracking
  • Customizable cleaning schedules
  • Completion history with costs
  • Advance and on-day reminders
  • Data export to CSV
  • No account required
Features
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HomeCentered remembers what your house needs, so you don't have to. MAINTENANCE THAT REMEMBERS Track the furnace filter, the gutters, the water heater flush — everything that matters once or twice a year and is impossible to hold in your head. Set a rhythm, get a reminder, and log what you did. Then, months later, actually know: when was that last serviced? What did it cost? Who did it? • Unlimited tasks, no cap • Reminders in advance, on the day, and after — with quiet hours • Full completion history with costs and photos • Categories, filters, and a Year in Review CLEANING THAT DOESN'T NAG Cleaning works differently from maintenance, so it's built differently. Name your rooms. Log one in a single tap. See at a glance when each was last done, and what got done in it. There is no overdue state. Nothing turns red, nothing sends a notification, and skipping a day costs you nothing. Every household is permanently behind on cleaning — an app that treats that as failure is an app you delete. • Rooms you name yourself, with tasks that keep their own rhythms • One-tap logging, with the detail optional • An optional weekly plan you can ignore freely • History that shows what you actually did EVERY PLACE YOU LOOK AFTER A rental. A cabin. Your parents' house. Add as many homes as you want — free, with no cap and no upgrade waiting behind it. Each one keeps its own tasks, its own rooms, its own history and its own costs. Switch between them from the dashboard title. Reminders tell you which home they mean. Suggested tasks change to match the kind of property, because a cabin that sits empty all winter needs different things from a house someone lives in. Sold a place? Archive it. The reminders stop, the history stays. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No sign-up. No servers. Everything lives on your device, and you can export all of it to CSV whenever you like. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO KEEP THEIR HOME Not a to-do list with a house theme. A long-term memory for the place you live.

Screenshots

SmartTub®1 screens
Home Centered4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Home Centered at 100% against SmartTub®'s 24%. Home Centered also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). SmartTub®'s advantage is ratings volume (320 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Home Centered holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTub® has 320 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of SmartTub®'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Home Centered's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartTub® ships an update fortnightly, Home Centered every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SmartTub® versus Home Centered: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartTub®Home Centered
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (320 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings320 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacuzzi Brands Corp.Samuel Smith

Customer experience

SmartTub®

All ratings320 ratings
Positive61.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative31.9%
Written reviews191 reviews
Positive23.6%
Neutral10.5%
Negative66.0%

Home Centered

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SmartTub®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App frequently logs out users
  • Inability to register warranty
  • Inconsistent temperature readings
  • Unreliable connection to spa

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to remotely turn off spa
  • Customizable heating and filtering schedules
  • Chemical tracking and maintenance reminders
  • Improved Apple Watch integration
  • Better temperature and setting controls

Home Centered

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SmartTub®

No in-app purchases

None

Home Centered

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartTub® free?
SmartTub® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Home Centered free?
Home Centered is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartTub® or Home Centered?
Home Centered is rated higher. SmartTub® averages 3.6 out of 5 from 320 ratings, while Home Centered averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SmartTub® or Home Centered have ads?
Neither SmartTub® nor Home Centered shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartTub® or Home Centered?
SmartTub® ships an update fortnightly, and Home Centered every 11 days. Most recently, SmartTub® was updated on October 29, 2026 and Home Centered on October 25, 2026.

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