BG Home vs FrankOlsen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BG Home
Control and automate your smart home devices with custom timers, scenes, and delays. Secure your settings with a parental lock and share access with household members. Integrate with voice assistants for hands-free operation.
- Device automation with timers and scenes
- Parental lock for settings
- Household member sharing
- Voice control via Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
- Geolocation and weather-based automation
- IFTTT integration
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Automate your devices with timers, scenes, delays and random operation, and protect your settings with the parental lock function whilst sharing control with others in your household. The smart home integrations with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT and Siri Shortcuts allow you to operate your BG Smart devices using your voice, and set up automated actions based on geolocation, weather and more for a truly smart solution.
FrankOlsen
Control your smart furniture lighting with this dedicated application. Adjust settings and manage your lighting experience directly from your device.
- Smart furniture lighting control
- Device management
- Lighting adjustments
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Control the Frank Olsen Smart furniture lighting with this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BG Home at every 2 months against FrankOlsen's every 13 months. BG Home also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). FrankOlsen's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FrankOlsen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BG Home has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of BG Home's written reviews are positive against 36% of FrankOlsen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BG Home ships an update every 2 months, FrankOlsen every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BG Home | FrankOlsen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.2% of reviews — better | 35.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 228 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luceco plc | Frank Olsen Furniture ltd |
Customer experience
BG Home
FrankOlsen
Bugs and requests
BG Home
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to change timer settings
- App crashes
- Connectivity issues
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Sunrise/sunset timer option
- Power metering
- Improved timer functionality
- Matter protocol support
- Modernized GUI
FrankOlsen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BG Home
No in-app purchases
FrankOlsen
No in-app purchases
