beam Home vs Garadget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
beam Home
Control and monitor your garage door remotely using your smartphone. Grant access to others and receive alerts if your door is left open. Integrates with other smart home devices for enhanced convenience and security.
- Remote garage door control
- Activity monitoring
- Customizable door names
- Grant access to friends/family
- Open door notifications
- Smart home integrations
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This update improves the overall stability, reliability, and performance of the application. By updating deprecated libraries and enhancing internal components, the app is better equipped to support the latest platforms and devices. Additionally, a new crash monitoring solution has been integrated, enabling our team to detect, investigate, and resolve issues more quickly. This helps reduce unexpected crashes and ensures a more reliable experience for our users.
Garadget
Securely monitor and control your garage doors from anywhere using this smart WiFi controller. It offers peace of mind by allowing you to check your garage status remotely and grant access when needed.
- Remote garage door monitoring
- Secure remote control
- Peace of mind
- Easy installation
- Grant access remotely
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Enjoy convenience and peace of mind by securely monitoring and controlling your garage doors from anywhere in the world with Garadget - easy-to-install open source WiFi smart garage door controller. Have you ever... - driven off forgetting your garage open or were unsure about it? - left your garage door open overnight by mistake? - found yourself without any way to enter your house? - needed to let somebody into your house when you were not there or were unable to get the door at that moment? Garadget addresses these and many other cases. To learn more and purchase the Garadget hardware please visit www.garadget.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: beam Home at 4.2 against Garadget's 3.5. beam Home also leads on ratings volume (233 vs 11). Garadget's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.6). 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.
beam Home holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: beam Home has 233 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of beam Home's written reviews are positive against 50% of Garadget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | beam Home | Garadget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (233 ratings) — better | 3.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 233 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beam Labs LLC | Softcomplex, Inc. |
Customer experience
beam Home
Garadget
Bugs and requests
beam Home
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes during setup
- App crashes on launch after update
- Cannot log in after setup
- Reset password link not sent
- Controller disabled due to too many failed attempts
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- Controller requires paired door sensor error
- App malfunctions when needed
- Door sensor drains battery quickly
- Cannot link with Alexa
- Apple Watch app closes when trying to open
Requested features
3 requests- Watch complication for Apple Watch
- Ability to turn opener light on/off
- Update app with Apple HomeKit support
Garadget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
beam Home
No in-app purchases
Garadget
No in-app purchases
