Comparison

dS Smart Home vs whatwatt

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Device control (light, shading, music)
  • Energy consumption monitoring
  • Weather and climate readings
  • Custom scenario creation
  • Room and device management
  • SONOS speaker control
  • Heating control
Features
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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.

About

whatwatt

This utility app is preparing for future enhancements. Developers are working on new functionalities that will be revealed soon.

Highlights
  • Future feature groundwork
  • Upcoming enhancements
  • Developer updates
Features
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The app that allows you to install whatwatt Go on a compatible smart meter, receive smart meter data in real time and connect your smart meter to services. Made for Switzerland.

Screenshots

dS Smart Home4 screens
whatwatt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: whatwatt at 100% against dS Smart Home's 33%. whatwatt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). dS Smart Home's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

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

whatwatt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of dS Smart Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of whatwatt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dS Smart Home ships an update every 2 months, whatwatt every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
dS Smart Home versus whatwatt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdS Smart Homewhatwatt
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdigitalSTROM AGwhatwatt AG

Customer experience

dS Smart Home

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

whatwatt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

dS Smart Home

No in-app purchases

None

whatwatt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dS Smart Home free?
dS Smart Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is whatwatt free?
whatwatt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, dS Smart Home or whatwatt?
whatwatt is rated higher. dS Smart Home averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while whatwatt averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do dS Smart Home or whatwatt have ads?
Neither dS Smart Home nor whatwatt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dS Smart Home or whatwatt?
dS Smart Home ships an update every 2 months, and whatwatt every 2 weeks. Most recently, dS Smart Home was updated on November 2, 2026 and whatwatt on November 4, 2026.

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