Smart Hoom vs garage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Hoom
Control your garage door and manage access to your door lock directly from your smartphone. This app offers a secure, affordable, and convenient alternative to traditional remote controllers.
- Open garage doors remotely
- Manage door lock access
- Secure smartphone control
- Affordable alternative to remotes
- Plug and play setup
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Open garage doors with your smartphone. Manage access to your door lock. It’s plug and play, more secure and more affordable than remote controllers.
garage
This open-source application allows you to control a DIY garage door opener directly from your smartphone. It requires a companion Node.js application running on a Raspberry Pi or similar device. Setup instructions are available on the developer's GitHub pages.
- Control DIY garage openers
- Smartphone integration
- Open-source software
- Requires companion Node.js app
- GitHub setup guides
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Control a DIY garage opener from your phone. Requires a raspberry pi or similar running the following nodejs app: https://github.com/johntothee/garage. This app and the companion node app are open source. For info and setup see the readme pages at https://github.com/johntothee/garage_ios and https://github.com/johntothee/garage
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: garage at 5.0 against Smart Hoom's 4.2. garage also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly). Smart Hoom's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
garage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Hoom has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Smart Hoom ships an update monthly, garage daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Hoom | garage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 11.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seyedrasoul Hassani | John Erhardt |
In-app purchases
Smart Hoom
No in-app purchases
garage
No in-app purchases
