ProWarm vs BG Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProWarm
Control your underfloor heating system remotely with this app. It offers effortless and intelligent management for convenience and efficiency, putting full heating control at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
- Effortless control
- Intelligent heating management
- Remote access
- Anytime, anywhere control
- Modern living integration
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ProWarm is your all-in-one solution for effortless, intelligent control of your underfloor heating system. Designed for convenience, efficiency, and modern living, the ProWarm app puts full heating control at your fingertips—anytime, anywhere.
BG Home
Control and automate your smart home devices with custom timers, scenes, and delays. Secure your settings with a parental lock and share access with household members. Integrate with voice assistants for hands-free operation.
- Device automation with timers and scenes
- Parental lock for settings
- Household member sharing
- Voice control via Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
- Geolocation and weather-based automation
- IFTTT integration
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Automate your devices with timers, scenes, delays and random operation, and protect your settings with the parental lock function whilst sharing control with others in your household. The smart home integrations with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT and Siri Shortcuts allow you to operate your BG Smart devices using your voice, and set up automated actions based on geolocation, weather and more for a truly smart solution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BG Home at every 2 months against ProWarm's every 10 months. BG Home also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 22%) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). ProWarm's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ProWarm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BG Home has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of ProWarm's written reviews are positive against 43% of BG Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ProWarm ships an update every 10 months, BG Home every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | ProWarm | BG Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | 43.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 228 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ProWarm | Luceco plc |
Customer experience
ProWarm
BG Home
User reviews
ProWarm
From 1 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works as needed
- 👍 Straightforward setup
- 👍 Easy control from anywhere
- 👍 Zone control is fab
- 👍 Functions on a basic level
Room to improve
- 🐛 Horrible design app
- 🐛 Too complicated
- 🐛 Hangs
- 🐛 Unless app
- 🐛 Hardest app to use
BG Home
From 7 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great features
- 👍 Excellent product
- 👍 Fantastic
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connection issues
- 🐛 Unreliable app
- 🐛 Difficult to set up
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Clunky interface
Bugs and requests
ProWarm
Reported bugs
26 issues- 🐛 Thermostat disconnected, cannot find to reconnect
- 🐛 App logs out, forgets device, resets
- 🐛 Heating mysteriously drops temperature
- 🐛 No QR code for setup
- 🐛 App detects wrong devices
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- 🐛 App loses device regularly
- 🐛 Won't connect to hotspot
- 🐛 Doesn't remember information, requires re-login
- 🐛 Device won't connect after reset
- 🐛 UI not optimized for full screen iPhones
- 🐛 App crashes when opening
- 🐛 Thermostat not updated time after clock change
- 🐛 Fiddly to set up, rotating display closes automatically
- 🐛 No copy function for schedules
- 🐛 App crashes after selecting a room
- 🐛 App doesn't work on 5GHz WiFi
- 🐛 App settings don't match device settings
- 🐛 Touch screen controls don't work properly on larger screens
- 🐛 App updated, registered, devices disappeared
- 🐛 App only works on 2.4GHz WiFi
- 🐛 Erratic control of device
- 🐛 No easy reset of app/thermostat
- 🐛 No back button in app
- 🐛 Timer does not come on at set time
- 🐛 Time seems to be wrong
- 🐛 App silences music playing on device
Requested features
10 requests- 💡 More granular scaling of history temp graph
- 💡 Ability to export data
- 💡 Integration with Google Home
- 💡 Display floor and room temperature on main screen
- 💡 Ability to connect Siri
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- 💡 Copy schedule settings between days/devices
- 💡 1-hour boost setting
- 💡 Display current and target temperatures on Home Screen
- 💡 Timer programming more accessible
- 💡 Boost function
BG Home
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to change timer settings
- App crashes
- Connectivity issues
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Sunrise/sunset timer option
- Power metering
- Improved timer functionality
- Matter protocol support
- Modernized GUI
In-app purchases
ProWarm
No in-app purchases
BG Home
No in-app purchases
