Bond Home vs NORM Connect
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 devices, including ceiling fans, motorized shades, and fireplaces, remotely. Seamlessly integrate with popular voice assistants and home automation platforms for convenient smart home management.
- Control ceiling fans
- Operate motorized shades
- Manage fireplaces
- Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Google, Siri)
- Home automation platform compatibility
- Remote device control
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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.
NORM Connect
Connect your mobile device to your NORM watch to control settings and view data. Track sleep, heart rate, calories, distance, and activity. Manage notifications, set alarms, and receive inactivity alerts.
- Connect NORM watch
- Control watch settings
- View sleep data
- Monitor heart rate
- Track calories and distance
- Manage notifications and alarms
- Sync with Apple Health
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The NORM Connect app helps you connect your mobile device to your NORM watch. In the app you will be able to control settings and check all the data from your NORM watch. The app is used to calibrate the time on the NORM watch. Some of the features in the app include sleep function, heart rate, calories, distance and activity time. You are also able to control the notifications and set the alarm, the reminder function and inactivity alert + more. Apple Health: Sport and health data from the NORM Connect app will be synced to Apple Health.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bond Home at 95% against NORM Connect's 25%. Bond Home also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (4K vs 2). NORM Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, update cadence, 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
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 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bond Home has 4K ratings behind it against 2, 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 25% of NORM Connect's.
Bond Home ships an update monthly, NORM Connect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bond Home | NORM Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olibra, LLC | NORM Denmark |
Customer experience
Bond Home
NORM Connect
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
NORM Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bond Home
No in-app purchases
NORM Connect
No in-app purchases
