Simon Smart vs PAK Start
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simon Smart
Control and manage your smart home devices remotely. Configure hardware, define custom scenes, and manage user permissions for a personalized smart living experience. Supports a wide range of devices including lighting, climate control, security sensors, and entertainment systems.
- Remote device management
- Scene configuration
- User and permission management
- Device status monitoring
- Support for diverse smart home devices
- Personalized smart home settings
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Welcome to Simon's Smart Home! Simon Smart App is a professional Smart home management software, which can help you quickly configure and manage the Simon Smart hardware or personalized needs in your home. Simon Smart App is not only the programmer of your Smart home, but also the remote control and the management assistant of your Smart home. Through Simon Smart App, you can conveniently manage each Simon Smart hardware in your home, check the running status, change the setting parameters, flexibly define the scene configuration, manage the home users and permissions, make your Smart home different, and better understand you for you. In the Simon Smart App, you can easily manage your home's: Switch, dimmer panel Socket power supply, energy detection The curtain control Air conditioning, floor heating, new risk control system Security sensing, door and window magnetic, human infrared, gas alarm, environment sensing, intelligent door lock TV, air conditioning infrared remote control The background music More home appliance linkage (air conditioner, air purifier, floor cleaning robot, etc.)
PAK Start
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PAK App is an important entrance to Pak smart home. Through Yingling life app, you can remotely control the intelligent hardware device at home, easily using multi-functional services like intelligent linkage、home management 、device sharing services, Yingling life hope to brought millions of families enjoyable the visual beauty form light shadow space by intelligent lighting
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Verdict
Simon Smart and PAK Start are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Simon Smart ships an update every 3 months, PAK Start every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and May 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simon Smart | PAK Start |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 247 MB | 203 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 西蒙电气(中国)有限公司 | PAK Corporation Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Simon Smart
No in-app purchases
PAK Start
No in-app purchases
