Comparison

BoardBoss vs Dirigo

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

Head to head
About

BoardBoss

Enhance classic board games with AI and augmented reality. Point your phone at the game to unlock new features, improve scores, and discover missed words. Currently supports Boggle variants with more games planned.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality game enhancement
  • AI-powered word suggestions
  • Dictionary verification
  • Score improvement tools
  • Support for Boggle, Big Boggle, Super Big Boggle
Features
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BoardBoss brings the board games you already know and love to life using artificial intelligence and augmented reality! Simply point your phone at your favorite game and it is enhanced with new features never before possible in the physical world. Improve your score. Have more fun. Beat your friends. BoardBoss currently supports Boggle™, Big Boggle™, and Super Big Boggle™ with more games coming soon! After the game just scan with BoardBoss to • See the highest scoring words you missed • See ALL words on the board • Check the dictionary to verify words you found Breathe new life into your favorite classics with BoardBoss! Built by the same team that brought you Magic Sudoku, Product Hunt's AR App of the Year for 2017. Support for more games is coming soon! Have a favorite game you want to see enhanced? Let us know your requests. * Boggle is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.

About

Dirigo

Control your home theater devices, including AV receivers and smart TVs, from your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Manage playback, adjust settings, and create custom activities for a seamless entertainment experience.

Highlights
  • Control Marantz and Denon AV receivers
  • Browse and play HEOS streaming sources
  • Manage multi-zone receiver controls
  • Configure receiver settings
  • Remote control for Apple TV, Android TV, Google TV
  • Customizable Home Assistant remotes
  • Create one-tap room activities
Features
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Dirigo is one remote for your home theater, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. It controls current Marantz and Denon AV receivers directly over Wi-Fi, well beyond what the bundled remote can do, and with Home Assistant it works without one. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Power, volume, every input and every surround mode your receiver supports • Browse and play HEOS streaming sources — Qobuz, TIDAL, Amazon Music, TuneIn, and the rest • Manage the queue, see what is playing, skip tracks, view history • Control each zone on multi-zone receivers • Configure room correction, speaker levels, HDMI output, video settings, and the deep menus your physical remote pretends don't exist • Activate Quick Selects you have programmed on the receiver • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and an Apple Watch app • Siri and Shortcuts ("Toggle mute with Dirigo", "Set volume with Dirigo") ACTIVITIES One tap sets the whole room: turn on the receiver and the TV, pick the input, set the volume and the lights. Every step reports what actually happened, and Activities run from Shortcuts too. TELEVISION REMOTES Pair the television or streaming box in the same room and Dirigo becomes its remote too. Apple TV gets a touchpad — swipe to navigate, tap to select — along with transport buttons and the Apple TV's own Control Centre and app switcher. Android TV, Google TV and NVIDIA Shield get a D-pad, Back and Home, and play, pause and skip. Dirigo tells you which app is on screen. Volume routes back to your receiver, and a now-playing card on your home screen shows what is on — title, artist, artwork, and how far through it is. Drag the progress bar to jump to a moment. Pairing is a one-time setup: Dirigo finds the television on your network and you type in the code it puts on screen. CUSTOM REMOTES (HOME ASSISTANT) Build remotes from the devices on your own Home Assistant server. • Add lights, switches, fans, buttons, scenes, scripts and sensor readings, and arrange them your way • Add a D-pad or a transport row and choose what each button drives • A Now Playing remote for a Home Assistant media player: artwork, progress, play and skip, volume • Show an infrared appliance on the Home screen: its inputs, volume and power, with a full remote for everything else • Put Home Assistant lights and scenes on your receiver's Home screen buttons • No Denon or Marantz receiver? Choose "Connect Home Assistant" when you first open Dirigo DEMO MODE No receiver to test against? Tap "Explore Demo Mode" on the Welcome screen to explore the app with a synthetic receiver, Apple TV and Android TV. PRIVACY Dirigo collects nothing. No analytics, no identifiers, no third-party tracking SDKs, no Dirigo account. All receiver, television and Home Assistant control happens on your local Wi-Fi network; Dirigo refuses Home Assistant Cloud and internet addresses. If you connect Home Assistant, its access token is stored in your iPhone's keychain and sent only to your own Home Assistant server. The only public-internet activity is album art: when you browse a HEOS streaming source, or show a Home Assistant media player whose cover is hosted by a music service, iOS loads the picture from that service's own image address, anonymously. Full policy at bit0100bitsoftware.com/dirigo-privacy. REQUIREMENTS A current-generation Denon or Marantz AV receiver with HEOS (Cinema 50, SR-series, AVR-X-series and similar), or a Home Assistant server. iOS 18 or later. Your receiver or Home Assistant server must be on the same Wi-Fi network as your iPhone. Apple TV pairing requires tvOS 18 or later. Android TV pairing works with Android TV and Google TV devices that support the built-in remote pairing service, including NVIDIA Shield. Dirigo is an independent third-party app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sound United, Denon, Marantz, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, or the Open Home Foundation. Home Assistant is a trademark of the Open Home Foundation.

Screenshots

BoardBoss4 screens
Dirigo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dirigo at 100% against BoardBoss's 50%. Dirigo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9). BoardBoss's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dirigo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BoardBoss asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dirigo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of BoardBoss's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dirigo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BoardBoss ships an update daily, Dirigo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BoardBoss versus Dirigo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoardBossDirigo
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoboflow, LLCBit 0100 Bit Software LLC

Customer experience

BoardBoss

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Dirigo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BoardBoss

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dirigo

One-time1
  • Dirigo$7.99

Questions

Is BoardBoss free?
BoardBoss is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dirigo free?
Dirigo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BoardBoss or Dirigo?
Dirigo is rated higher. BoardBoss averages 3.9 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Dirigo averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do BoardBoss or Dirigo have ads?
Neither BoardBoss nor Dirigo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BoardBoss or Dirigo?
BoardBoss ships an update daily, and Dirigo every 2 days. Most recently, BoardBoss was updated on November 8, 2026 and Dirigo on October 31, 2026.

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