Comparison

HomeCom Easy vs cat(a)log

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

Head to head
About

HomeCom Easy

Control your home's heating, cooling, ventilation, and EV charging remotely. Adjust settings, monitor energy usage, and receive error notifications for a smarter, more comfortable living space.

Highlights
  • Remote device control
  • Central heating management
  • Hot water scheduling
  • Ventilation control
  • Air conditioning operation
  • EV charger management
  • Energy monitoring
Features
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Welcome to HomeCom Easy, an application being carefully developed with the help from our users to provide an amazing experience. With HomeCom Easy you can control your devices remotely in a simple and intuitive way. Supported Products: • Heat Pumps and Boilers compatible with LAN interface and system controller CR400 or CW400/800 • Heat pumps and Boilers compatible with Connect-Key • Integrated Ventilation System: Vent 5001 C • Central Ventilation System: Vent 5000 C, Vent 4000 CC (connection to EasyVent) • Air conditioning units: Climate Series and Climate Class Series with Wi-Fi gateway • Air conditioning units: Large Splits Cassette and Duct types with Wi-Fi gateway • Instantaneous water heater: Therm 5000 Series, Tronic Series • EV Chargers: Bosch Power Charge Main functions are: • Central Heating: operation of room temperature, operating modes, and time program • Hot Water: operation of temperature through operation modes and time program • Ventilation: set fan level manually, operation mode and display air quality values • Air Conditioning: operation of operation modes, room temperature, advanced modes and time program. • Water Heaters: water temperature and custom modes • EV Charger: Start/stop charging, set current limit, manage RF card list • Holiday Mode and Away Mode • Energy monitoring with history values • Display solar power production • Display of sensor monitoring • Display of device status • Display of weather and outside temperature • Error notifications • Manage updates of connectivity device • Display support contacts by country To ensure you have the latest features available, keep your connectivity device always updated! Not all functions are supported by every device. Not every device is available in all countries. Check the documentation of the device or the connectivity device for compatibility with HomeCom Easy. New functions and additional device support will be added regularly. Data information notice in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (‘Data Act’) for related services: https://information-on-product-and-service-related-data.ttprivacy.com/HomeComEasy-MyBuderus-IVTAnywhereII-VulcanoConnect-EasyControl-MyMode

About

cat(a)log

Features
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cat(a)log is the shared memory of a group of people who care for cats — or for any pets. It answers, at any time and for every animal: who is this, where does it live right now, what has happened to it, and who did what, when. It is built for how animal care actually works. Cats move: from the shelter to a foster home, from the foster home to an adopter, out of a garden and onto the street, back again. Several people keep the record: you, the person who covers your weekends, the neighbour who feeds the colony. Nobody has a server, and nothing must get lost. THE RECORD • Every animal has a place. Cats live in clowders — your home, a foster home, an adopter's flat, the barn behind the station. Moving one is a dated event, so the record knows where Miezi was in May and who has her now. An animal without a place is a stray, and the app treats it as one. • Every fact has a date and a name. Neutered, vaccinated, weighed, moved, renamed: the app stores when it happened and who wrote it down, not just the current value. A cat's page reads like a diary. Nothing is ever overwritten; a mistake is corrected with a new entry, and the correction is visible too. • Weight and every other number get a graph. Weight is built in, in your units — kilograms or pounds, as your region says — and any number you log, a temperature or a dose, is drawn over time: week, month, year, the change since last time, vet visits marked along the way. • Several people, one record, no server. Each helper carries the whole catalog on their own device. Phones sync directly and encrypted over Wi-Fi, through a folder you already share (Nextcloud, Syncthing, a USB stick), or as a file through any messenger. If two people changed the same thing at once, both versions are shown and you decide. • One cat is one cat. Chip numbers and registry numbers (TASSO and others, opened with one tap) identify an animal. Two entries that are the same cat are merged, and both histories survive. A stray seen inside the search area of a missing cat is offered as a possible match. WHAT THAT MEANS DAY TO DAY • Fostering a litter: which of the ten identical kittens is already neutered, which one went to the family in the next town, and when. One vet appointment for the whole litter — tick the cats that come along, and afterwards note who was treated. • Feeding a colony: a new face at the feeding spot gets a photo and a position with one tap; when it turns up two streets away, the map draws its trail. Over months, the record shows who belongs to the colony and who was passing through. • A cat is missing: photograph the poster you hang up, or one somebody else hung up. The app reads the poster, marks the spot, and draws the 500 m area where the cat probably roams. The next sighting inside that area lands on the right cat. • Your own pets: switch a catalog to pets and it speaks of pets and households — dog, rabbit, horse, whatever lives with you, each with its own breeds. Chip number, vaccinations, vet visits, medication, weight — and appointments in an agenda your phone's calendar can mirror. ALSO • Your own fields — "flea treatment", "favourite food", a body temperature in °C or °F — behave like the built-in ones, history and graph included. • Photos: crop one kitten out of a group picture, or circle it when they are too tangled to crop. • A printable page per animal with photo and chip code, for the vet or the adopter. • Runs offline. • 38 languages, right-to-left included. • Free, open source (Apache-2.0 / MIT), no ads, no account, no tracking. Your data stays on your devices, in a format you can read and export.

Screenshots

HomeCom Easy4 screens
cat(a)log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: cat(a)log at every 5 days against HomeCom Easy's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeCom Easy ships an update every 2 months, cat(a)log every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HomeCom Easy versus cat(a)log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeCom Easycat(a)log
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size340 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBosch Thermotechnik GmbHPatrick Zimmer

In-app purchases

None

HomeCom Easy

No in-app purchases

None

cat(a)log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeCom Easy free?
HomeCom Easy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is cat(a)log free?
cat(a)log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HomeCom Easy or cat(a)log have ads?
Neither HomeCom Easy nor cat(a)log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeCom Easy or cat(a)log?
HomeCom Easy ships an update every 2 months, and cat(a)log every 5 days. Most recently, HomeCom Easy was updated on October 29, 2026 and cat(a)log on October 29, 2026.

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