dS Smart Home vs dingz installer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
dS Smart Home
Control your smart home devices, including lighting, shading, and music, with this intuitive application. Monitor energy consumption, weather, and alarms. Easily manage rooms, create custom scenarios, and adjust settings for a more comfortable living environment.
- Device control (light, shading, music)
- Energy consumption monitoring
- Weather and climate readings
- Custom scenario creation
- Room and device management
- SONOS speaker control
- Heating control
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• Simple and convenient The new dS Smart Home is the perfect app for the perfect smart home. Setting up and operating your digitalSTROM Smart Home has never been easier and more convenient. Whether light, shading or music - the app offers everything you need to make your life easier and more comfortable. • Clear structure The app has four tabs (Favorites, Cockpit, Rooms, Settings) that help you to quickly switch between different features: • Favorites: In the Favorites the most important scenarios of the whole flat are displayed. And you can add your personal favorites. These can be scenarios from the rooms, individual devices or user-defined actions. • Cockpit: the cockpit shows the current energy consumption and that of the last 7 days, weather and climate readings, current alarms and warnings, and user-defined states. In the detailed view of energy consumption, the individual circuits are displayed to the second. The climate data details show the temperature and humidity readings from the past days and weeks.. • Room overview: All rooms (including scenarios, devices and buttons) of your digitalSTROM Smart Home are displayed in the room overview and can be operated directly. • Settings: In the settings you can add further installations (for example your holiday home) and have direct access to the tutorials or the help page. • Custom actions Add custom actions to your favorites and retrieve them at any time. • Create and edit scenarios New scenarios can be easily and conveniently created and existing scenarios can be adjusted or deleted as needed. • Control of the SONOS speakers All SONOS speakers integrated into your digitalSTROM Smart Home can be operated via scenarios or the Play-Pause-function and the volume can be adjusted. • Overview of rooms, scenarios and devices Check the different measured values (e.g. temperature or humidity) and the current state of scenarios and all devices for "light" and "shading" for every room of your digitalSTROM Smart Home. Any changes made are displayed in the app immediately. • Make temporary settings Adjust the current brightness or color of lights and the position of shutters, blinds or awnings at any time easily. With a long click (3D-Touch) on a scenario or device you can open the temporary settings and make adjustments. • Control your heating Check the current temperature in the rooms, choose between Comfort and Eco mode in each room and set the desired temperature for each mode and room. • Assignment of buttons Try out how the various clicks on your light and shading buttons work and adapt the displayed scenarios to suit your requirements. • The home at a glance In the cockpit you will find information on current alarms and weather warnings, the user-defined states as well as the current energy consumption in your home.
dingz installer
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The dingz Installer App is designed to assist electricians and other certified installers during the initial configuration of dingz devices. The app allows you to configure the main features of a dingz, including output functionalities and device identification information. It also enables you to generate a summary PDF showing the configuration and status of all dingz devices in a home. Simply connect your phone to the same Wi-Fi network as the dingz devices, and they will automatically appear in the app. You can then select a home and configure the dingz installed within it. The app provides several tools to simplify installation and commissioning, including: • Summary PDF generator • Configuration deployment • Calibration tools • Testing tools The dingz Installer App is the ideal companion for installing and commissioning dingz devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: dS Smart Home at every 2 months against dingz installer's every 6 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
dS Smart Home ships an update every 2 months, dingz installer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | dS Smart Home | dingz installer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | digitalSTROM AG | iolo AG |
In-app purchases
dS Smart Home
No in-app purchases
dingz installer
No in-app purchases







