HZconnect vs Twingate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HZconnect
Enhance your home's security with a connected ecosystem of smart devices. Control video doorbells, lights, and lanterns through a single app, creating custom scenes and receiving real-time alerts. Monitor your home remotely with live video feeds.
- Video doorbell control
- Smart security lights
- Decorative lantern integration
- Voice control
- Scene creation
- Live home monitoring
- Wi-Fi setup, no hub required
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Blanket your home in complete connected security with the total family of HZConnect™ products. Our innovative product line includes a video doorbell, security lights, and decorative lanterns that all work together in one seamlessly designed HZConnect™ app. Our smart home technology allows you to control the HZConnect™ products with your voice and group all the HZConnect™ family of products to create scenes and to activate one another. Receive alert notifications and have the ability to check on your home through live view when away with HZConnect™ video products. Wi-Fi connectivity for quick and easy setup with your router, no bridge or hub required. Works with Google Assistant and Alexa.
Twingate
Provides secure, encrypted, least-privileged access to cloud or on-premise applications. It offers a more secure alternative to VPNs, allowing remote access without exposing public IPs and enabling 2FA/MFA with no application changes.
- Encrypted, least-privileged access
- Access any cloud or on-premise resource
- More secure than VPN
- Remote access without public IPs
- Enable 2FA/MFA with zero changes
- Audited access to private resources
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Twingate is the most secure way to provide encrypted, least privileged access to any cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform) or on-premise application or resource. Twingate allows you to secure all access regardless of device platform or network. Far more secure than VPN, and using either your company’s identity provider or public identity authorities for authentication, Twingate allows you to remotely access any private application without exposing any public IPs. Twingate’s network performance is exceptional, access to private resources is audited, and you can enable 2FA/MFA on any resource with zero application changes required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Twingate at every 5 weeks against HZconnect's every 7 months. HZconnect's advantage is ratings volume (792 vs 34) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). 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.
HZconnect holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HZconnect has 792 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of HZconnect's written reviews are positive against 44% of Twingate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HZconnect ships an update every 7 months, Twingate every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HZconnect | Twingate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (792 ratings) — better | 4.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 792 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Globe Electric Company Inc. | Twingate Inc. |
Customer experience
HZconnect
Twingate
Bugs and requests
HZconnect
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to connect device to new app
- Unstable live streaming and video playback
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to adjust motion detection zones
- Notification support for smartwatches
- Improved compatibility with older devices
Twingate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HZconnect
No in-app purchases
Twingate
No in-app purchases
