Mixergy vs Ideal Touch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mixergy
Monitor and control your hot water tank remotely. View water levels, track energy consumption, and set heating schedules from anywhere. Get approximate electricity and gas costs for your hot water usage.
- Remote tank monitoring
- Hot water level display
- Energy consumption tracking
- Automatic heating schedules
- Global remote access
- Cost approximation
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The Mixergy app is the best way to interact with your Mixergy hot water tank. • See the amount of hot water in your tank, and give your a tank a boost - from anywhere in the world! • Monitor the energy consumption of your hot water tank • See detailed graphs of your hot water levels and electricity usage • See whether the tank is currently heating up your water • Set an automatic heating schedule • Get an electricity and gas consumption and cost approximation
Ideal Touch
Control your home heating system remotely from your smartphone or web browser. Optimize energy consumption with features like weather compensation and holiday mode. Manage multiple users and set detailed heating schedules for busy lifestyles.
- Remote heating control
- Set time and temperature periods
- OpenTherm modulation
- Weather compensation
- Energy consumption monitoring
- Holiday function
- Remote customer support
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You’re in control. The Ideal Touch Connect heating app allows complete control of your heating system anytime and anywhere from your smart phone and web browser. As Touch is designed by Ideal boilers, for Ideal boilers, the Touch app integrates seamlessly with your boiler to ensure you get first class performance with top class efficiency. With over 40 time and temperature periods per week, the Touch app can handle even the busiest of lifestyles with ease. HEATING CONTROL, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE - Control your heating at home or on the move. - Multiple users can connect to one home - OpenTherm modulation - Weather compensation using up-to-date information from over 6,000 weather stations - Touch constantly monitors the inside and outside temperature, making sure your boiler only ever uses the minimum gas it needs to, reducing your energy consumption. - Holiday function - Remote Smart Support from Ideal Boiler Customer Service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mixergy at 27% against Ideal Touch's 14%. Ideal Touch's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). 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.
Mixergy ships an update every 6 weeks, Ideal Touch every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mixergy | Ideal Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews — better | 13.7% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mixergy Limited | Ideal Boilers |
Customer experience
Mixergy
Ideal Touch
Bugs and requests
Mixergy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ideal Touch
Reported bugs
20 issues- Keeps signing out
- Heating stays on when leaving house
- Never connects
- Server always goes down
- Clocks change breaks app
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- App changes temperature randomly
- Never remembers password
- Changes made in app don't reach boiler
- App shows different temp to thermostat
- App doesn't reflect changes made on thermostat
- App shows incorrect temperature
- App turns heating off unexpectedly
- App doesn't communicate reliably in one direction
- App shows incorrect status (on/off, temp)
- Input commands ignored
- App resets when trying to turn heating on manually
- App sticks at connecting to devices
- App asks for 12-digit PIN not found
- App freezes during registration
- App loses connection from server
Requested features
8 requests- App needs an update
- Improve connection stability
- Sync app and thermostat accurately
- Add Apple Watch app
- Add IFTTT integration
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- Provide a manual
- Improve iOS notifications
- Add widget support
In-app purchases
Mixergy
No in-app purchases
Ideal Touch
No in-app purchases
