Bond Home vs powermate p2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bond Home
Control your Smart By Bond ceiling fans, motorized shades, and fireplaces remotely. Seamlessly integrate with popular voice assistants and home automation platforms for a connected smart home experience.
- Control Smart By Bond ceiling fans
- Operate motorized shades
- Manage remote-controlled fireplaces
- No hub required for fans
- Integrates with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
- Works with home automation platforms
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Bond Home is a leading platform for Smart By Bond ceiling fans (no hub required), remote-controlled motorized shades, ceiling fans and fireplaces (Bond Bridge is required). Bond Home connects your devices with Amazon Alexa, Google assistant, Siri and other popular home automation platforms.
powermate p2
Control your window shades remotely with this user-friendly app. It offers easy setup, customization, and family-wide accessibility, integrating with home automation and security devices.
- Remote shade control
- Wi-Fi smart hub integration
- Customizable settings
- Family access
- Timer setup
- Scene creation
- Siri shortcuts support
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P2 POWERMATE is a user-friendly app to control your window shades. The P2 POWERMATE Wi-Fi smart hub is easy to set-up, is customizable and can be utilized by everyone in your family. Key Features: Remote access. Control various home automation and home security devices. Timer set up. Create Scenes. Support Siri shortcuts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bond Home at 95% against powermate p2's 4%. Bond Home also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.3) and ratings volume (4K vs 38). powermate p2's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). 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.
Bond Home holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bond Home has 4K ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Bond Home's written reviews are positive against 4% of powermate p2's.
| Parameter | Bond Home | powermate p2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) — better | 1.3 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews — better | 3.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 236 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olibra LLC | PHASE II PRODUCTS, INC. |
Customer experience
Bond Home
powermate p2
Bugs and requests
Bond Home
Reported bugs
3 issues- Remotes going out of sync
- Alexa integration issues
- Unreliable device control
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to rearrange device tiles
- Real-time device status updates
- Improved group/scene management
- Expanded device type compatibility
- Enhanced scheduling and automation options
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- Customizable button/command mapping
powermate p2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bond Home
No in-app purchases
powermate p2
No in-app purchases
