Hubitat vs HomeSeer Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Head to head
About
Hubitat
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely. Set up location-based automation and receive important alerts directly to your phone. This app enhances your existing home automation system.
Highlights
- Access Dashboards
- Monitor and control devices
- Arm/disarm Safety Monitor
- Change Modes
- Define Geofence for Presence
- Receive Push Notifications
Features
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App is an accessory to the Hubitat Elevation home automation system. Users of Hubitat Elevation can use the Mobile App to: - Access Dashboards to monitor and control devices, arm or disarm Hubitat Safety Monitor, change Modes and more. - Define a Geofence for Mobile Presence detection based on phone location. The Geofence center defaults to your hub location but can be dragged to any location and the radius set. - Receive Push Notifications from Hubitat Elevation apps.
About
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.
Highlights
- Customizable dashboards
- Smart camera monitoring
- Device control
- Automation event launching
- Single login access
Features
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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.
Screenshots
Hubitat4 screens
HomeSeer Mobile1 screens
Verdict
The call
The clearest difference is rating: Hubitat at 2.8 against HomeSeer Mobile's 2.3. HomeSeer Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Hubitat holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 168 and 67 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Hubitat's written reviews are positive against 23% of HomeSeer Mobile's.
UpkeepUpdate frequency
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
| Parameter | Hubitat | HomeSeer Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (168 ratings) — better | 2.3 (67 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews — better | 23.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 67 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hubitat, Inc. | HomeSeer |
Customer experience
Hubitat
All ratings163 ratings
Positive40.5%
Neutral10.4%
Negative49.1%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive28.0%
Neutral11.8%
Negative60.2%
HomeSeer Mobile
All ratings63 ratings
Positive30.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative58.7%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive23.3%
Neutral11.6%
Negative65.1%
User reviews
Hubitat
From 168 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast local control and response times
- 🔒 Local-first architecture with optional cloud access
- 💡 Highly customizable and flexible platform
- 📱 Geofencing and presence detection capabilities
- 🎯 Excellent device compatibility and integrations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- 🎨 Outdated, clunky UI design (Windows 98 style)
- 📍 Geofencing unreliable and inconsistent
- 🔋 Excessive battery drain from location tracking
- ☁️ Cloud/remote access requires paid subscription
HomeSeer Mobile
From 67 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Generally works and is simple
- 👍 Reliable and good improvement
- 👍 Great start, easy to build dashboard
- 👍 Improved performance, smoother operation
- 👍 Fantastic interface, modern UI
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes often
- 🐛 Dimmer sliders don't work on widgets
- 🐛 Devices don't show up
- 🐛 Control functions won't work on iPad
- 🐛 Not all functions passed through widget
Bugs and requests
Hubitat
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup consistently
- Geofence detection fails to send events to hub
- Geofence shows incorrect location (off by km)
- Login screen keyboard covers continue button
- App hangs at 'Loading User Data' screen
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- Dashboard doesn't load after backgrounding
- Local LAN mode not working, stuck on cloud
- Hub discovery doesn't work on iOS
- Duplicate rooms and devices displayed
- Incorrect device status reporting
- Notifications show 'invalid token' error
- App doesn't support screen rotation
- Email verification code not received
- Presence detection broken after updates
- App unable to connect to hub after updates
- Geofence size resets to default
- What's New screen cannot be dismissed
- Layout issues with overlapping buttons on iPhone 7
Requested features
15 requests- Native iOS app with proper UI/UX design
- Dark mode option
- Widget support for quick device access
- Ability to add/discover devices from mobile app
- Automation and scene creation from app
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- iPad landscape view support
- Drag-and-drop dashboard tile customization
- Multiple geofence locations
- Motion sensor activity logging in dashboard
- Improved dashboard responsiveness and layout
- Manual IP address entry for hub connection
- SMS-based account verification
- Battery usage optimization for geofencing
- Real-time notifications with better visibility
- Detailed user manual and in-app help
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
None
Hubitat
No in-app purchases
None
HomeSeer Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Hubitat free?
Hubitat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HomeSeer Mobile free?
HomeSeer Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hubitat or HomeSeer Mobile?
Hubitat is rated higher. Hubitat averages 2.8 out of 5 from 168 ratings, while HomeSeer Mobile averages 2.3 from 67 ratings.
Do Hubitat or HomeSeer Mobile have ads?
Neither Hubitat nor HomeSeer Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hubitat or HomeSeer Mobile?
Hubitat ships an update every 2 months, and HomeSeer Mobile every 2 months. Most recently, Hubitat was updated on November 2, 2026 and HomeSeer Mobile on November 2, 2026.
