Comparison

Thinknx UP vs Office Bell

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

Head to head
About

Thinknx UP

This app enhances professional home automation supervision with a redesigned interface for improved usability and performance. It offers advanced control over lighting, climate, and security systems, with customizable layouts and multilingual support.

Highlights
  • Home and building automation management
  • Advanced lighting control (RGBW)
  • Customizable scenes and schedules
  • HVAC and thermostat management
  • Multilingual interface support
  • Integration with security systems
  • Video surveillance management
Features
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Thinknx UP uplifts the level of supervisions for professional home automation. Completely redesigned and distinguished by unique key features, this app allows a leap forward in terms of usability and appealing providing the building enhanced performances as well as much more power and flexibility. A new RGBW POP-UP simplifies the usage of colored and tunable white lamps permitting to save unlimited number of colors and to shuffle between them. SCENES can be modified as easily as during recording, allowing any single action to be changed or even removed to get the desired end result. In addition to the automatically generated list, CUSTOMIZABLE PORTRAIT can be designed as for landscape to accommodate your prefer graphic. Reinvented SCHEDULES permit to easily create time or event based actions repeating on any time base. It is also possible to switch from one THEME to another just choosing it from the settings. The management of HVAC and thermostats has been lead to an even higher level presenting much more info to the user without any additional configuration. Last but not least, to deploy the app globally, interfaces can be now created in ANY LANGUAGE thanks to the minimal usage of fixed texts and the support of unicode fonts. Features: - Fast and easy setup using the free ThinKnx Configurator - Unlimited number of KNX group addresses - Multiproject support - Secure connection thanks to encrypted stream - Comfortable and intuitive usage - Simple and attractive design - Advanced logical functions Check list of the main software functions: - Management of complete home and building automation systems based on KNX, Z-Wave, BTicino, Modbus - Lights (on/off command with % value, dimmer, new RGBW control with colors and sequences set by the user) - Awnings and any kind of motorized shutter/curtain - Climate and heating (manual or scheduled climate control) - Display weather data - Load control, water, gas, electricity - Create custom scenarios - HVAC control with desired thermal modality (comfort, standby, night) - Basic Logic - Boolean functions (AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND) and filters. - Timed controls thanks to calendars and a lot of kind of timers - KNX bus monitor via web page - Smart Irrigation system - Voice control function Integrated anti-intrusion systems: - Bentel: Kyo8, Kyo16, Kyo32, Kyo320, Absoluta - Tecnoalarm: Tecno Out protocol - Paradox - Elkron: MP508TG - Aritech Advisor Master and Advanced - Honeywell Galaxy - Inim - Urmet - Siemens SPC - Elmo / Iess Integrated management of video surveillance systems: - Mobotix Cameras - Axis Cameras - Network Cameras with MJPEG or RTSP H264 video flow Integration of installations of other type such as: - Interfacing with devices with MODBUS RTU communication protocol (thermal / special plants / fire / electrical meters) as the FCC-PLANTHERM, RDZ, Menerga - Integration with air conditioning systems by Sanyo - Integration with air conditioners by Mitsubishi - Gateway Function to and from MODBUS-RTU Integrated management of audio / video multi-room: - Audiofy - Tutondo - Audio Matrix / video AMX multiroom, Autopatch, Kramer, Atlona (via serial interface), Gefen - Video walls NEC, Projectors Sanyo, LG Monitor (via serial interface) - Receivers Denon, Onkyo, Cambridge Audio (via serial or network) - Monitoring of all devices via IR remote control IR 36kHz or 52kHz and Global Caché - Internet of Things gateway - Sonos - Ethernet gateway

About

Office Bell

Features
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Technological advances have made human lives simpler. Office Bell is an application that simplifies the activities between an employee and an office assistant at workplace through a mobile application. As smartphones are common these days, the application is installed at two ends – the employee and the office assistant. The employee passes instructions to the office assistant through the application who carries out the given instructions. The office assistant’s job is to help the employee in his work by carrying out tasks like fetching files, bringing coffee, turning on the air conditioner etc. In general, instructions are passed verbally, the assistant is called either by ringing the bell or approaching him in person. Office Bell automates the entire process reducing time, effort and maintenance of hardware like a bell or a ringing system. You have to just log on to the application, send a notification to your assistant with the specific instruction who shall carry out the given task. This application is available for your company if you want to take advantage of its easy to use the feature and low maintenance cost. Also, no personal information of users is needed as the application uses the official mobile number provided by your company, thus respecting the privacy of your employee. Office Bell is an amazing application for taking care of such official activities in so simple ways.

Screenshots

Thinknx UP4 screens
Office Bell4 screens

Verdict

The call

Thinknx UP and Office Bell are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Thinknx UP versus Office Bell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThinknx UPOffice Bell
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size214 MB13 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLuForLuVyrazu Labs Private Limited

In-app purchases

None

Thinknx UP

No in-app purchases

None

Office Bell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thinknx UP free?
Thinknx UP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Office Bell free?
Office Bell is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Thinknx UP or Office Bell have ads?
Neither Thinknx UP nor Office Bell shows ads.

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