Comparison

HouseTrack vs DKS Community

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

Head to head
About

HouseTrack

This app provides intelligent energy management for homes and businesses. It visualizes energy usage, identifies patterns, and helps control appliances to optimize cost savings and avoid bill surprises. Real-time data on power consumption, EV charging, and solar production is available.

Highlights
  • Real-time energy usage visualization
  • Circuit-by-circuit analysis
  • Appliance and device control
  • EV charging and solar production monitoring
  • Bill surprise avoidance
  • Weekly energy insights and tips
Features
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HouseTrack is the key to managing your energy usage. The most powerful and intelligent system for visualizing and managing energy in residential and commercial settings, it automatically identifies energy usage patterns so you can avoid bill surprises, control your appliances, and optimize cost savings. Through sensors that connect in your breaker panel, HouseTrack analyses your electrical usage on a circuit-by-circuit basis, 63 times a second, giving you real-time information about your home’s power consumption, electrical vehicle charging, solar production, or that stove that someone left on. When integrated with Samsung’s SmartThings ecosystem, HouseTrack enables users to connect with and remotely control hundreds of appliances and devices in your home. HouseTrack shows you what’s driving the cost of your electric bill, pinpoints problem areas, and can send notifications about abnormal energy use. Never be surprised by an electric bill again! Free weekly insights and tips are provided to make your home smarter, more energy efficient, and safer.

About

DKS Community

Manage property access remotely with video calls from your entry system. Visually identify visitors and grant or deny them entry directly from your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Video calls from entry system
  • Grant or deny visitor access
  • Remote property management
  • Smartphone control
  • Visitor identification
Features
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The DKS Community app allows residents to identify and grant or deny their visitors access to the property using their smartphone with a video call from the entry system. When a resident receives a video call from the entry system, they can visually identify their visitor and allow them access to the community – or deny them access

Screenshots

HouseTrack4 screens
DKS Community4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: HouseTrack at 9.0 against DKS Community's 16.4. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HouseTrack against 5.0 for DKS Community. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HouseTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, DKS Community every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
HouseTrack versus DKS Community: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHouseTrackDKS Community
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCurb, Inc.DoorKing, Inc.

Customer experience

HouseTrack

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DKS Community

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HouseTrack

No in-app purchases

None

DKS Community

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HouseTrack free?
HouseTrack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DKS Community free?
DKS Community is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HouseTrack or DKS Community?
HouseTrack and DKS Community are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do HouseTrack or DKS Community have ads?
Neither HouseTrack nor DKS Community shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HouseTrack or DKS Community?
HouseTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, and DKS Community every 5 weeks. Most recently, HouseTrack was updated on October 9, 2026 and DKS Community on October 24, 2026.

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