Comparison

Bond Home vs Flame Detector

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Flame Detector

This app offers advanced flame detection for your home, alerting you to fires hundreds of times faster than traditional smoke alarms. It's designed for spaces where flames should never be, providing instant notifications to your smart device.

Highlights
  • Detects flame hundreds of times faster than smoke alarms
  • Instant alerts to smart devices
  • Monitors spaces where flames should not exist
  • Designed for bedrooms, playrooms, and garages
  • Provides real-time fire notifications
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Welcome to a whole new level of fire protection like you’ve never seen before. Developed by a leading-edge team of scientists and fire detection engineers, The Flame Detector is the only product of its kind on the market today. Designed to detect flame, it can detect many home fires hundreds of times faster than traditional smoke alarms. Detect flame in seconds, alerting you to fire much faster and helping prevent fire from ever getting out of hand in the first place. How does a Flame Detector compare to a smoke alarm? Smoke alarms work by detecting small particles of combustion (smoke) that must travel into the smoke alarm’s sensing chamber before ever alarming. Depending on the location of the fire to the proximity of the smoke alarm, it can take tens of minutes before a smoke alarm is activated. The Flame Detector, on the other hand, constantly monitors for the presence of flame in your home, and the moment it detects unwanted fire, you’re notified. It’s that simple! The Flame Detector is beautifully designed to monitor spaces where a flame should never exist, like a child’s bedroom, playroom or even your garage. Thousands of home fires are started by children every year, and more than half of those fires originate in the bedroom. With a Flame Detector, the moment a child lights a match a loud alarm is produced and a push notification is sent to your smart device telling you exactly where the fire started. When dealing with fire, seconds truly count! With the Flame Detector, you can be made aware of flame instantaneously, preventing dangerous home fires from ever occurring.

Screenshots

Bond Home4 screens
Flame Detector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Bond Home at 4K against Flame Detector's 4. Bond Home also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Flame Detector's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, review sentiment, 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

Flame Detector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bond Home has 4K ratings behind it against 4, 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 100% of Flame Detector's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bond Home ships an update monthly, Flame Detector every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bond Home versus Flame Detector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBond HomeFlame Detector
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4K — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOlibra, LLCForge Technologies, Inc (NC)

Customer experience

Bond Home

All ratings3,896 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews939 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.8%

Flame Detector

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Flame Detector

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bond Home

No in-app purchases

None

Flame Detector

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bond Home free?
Bond Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flame Detector free?
Flame Detector is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bond Home or Flame Detector?
Flame Detector is rated higher. Bond Home averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while Flame Detector averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Bond Home or Flame Detector have ads?
Neither Bond Home nor Flame Detector shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bond Home or Flame Detector?
Bond Home ships an update monthly, and Flame Detector every 3 months. Most recently, Bond Home was updated on October 25, 2026 and Flame Detector on October 6, 2026.

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