Comparison

elspet vs Pawaii

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

Head to head
About

elspet

Control and manage your smart home devices with this comprehensive platform. Organize devices by room, manage family members with different access levels, and create personalized control panels. Seamlessly link different products for unified operation.

Highlights
  • Room-based device classification and control
  • Family administrator and member management
  • Modular functional design
  • Personalized control panel creation
  • Device linkage control
  • Quick device access
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Elspet application is a general version control client for our company's smart home hardware products in the whole house smart scene, and it is an operating platform for users to control and manage smart devices. It is convenient to classify and control the intelligent hardware devices in the home according to the room. Supports setting up family administrators and ordinary members to achieve family authority management. At the same time, it adopts modular functional design, which can flexibly add different devices and panels; you can choose common components in the template library provided by our company, quickly build personalized control panels, and easily implement device access. Different products are connected to the same client to achieve linkage control, which is convenient to operate; eliminating the need for client development investment by brand manufacturers to achieve product intelligence faster.

About

Pawaii

This app fosters a deeper connection between pet owners and their companions. It aims to create a warm and loving environment for human-pet interaction, integrating design and technology to redefine smart pet living.

Highlights
  • Human-pet interaction model
  • High-quality pet products
  • IoT ecosystem integration
  • Smart pet life
  • Design, R&D, production, sales
Features
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Pawaii is a brand co-founded by a group of young pet owners. The team is committed to developing high-quality products that meet the nature of pets and creating a new model of human-pet interaction that is warm, inclusive and loving. Connect with love and discover new life. Pawaii has gradually grown into an international pet brand integrating design, research and development, production and sales. In the future, PAWAii will be based on the IoT ecosystem, and together with hundreds of millions of pet families, will redefine the smart pet life.

Screenshots

elspet4 screens
Pawaii4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: elspet at 4.6 against Pawaii's 1.2. elspet also leads on review sentiment (39% vs 0%) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 31). Pawaii's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 16 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

elspet holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: elspet has 2.1K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of elspet's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pawaii's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

elspet ships an update every 16 months, Pawaii monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
elspet versus Pawaii: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterelspetPawaii
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.1K ratings) — better1.2 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews38.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.1K — better31
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size204 MB67 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer慧 丁Pawaii Inc.

Customer experience

elspet

All ratings2,047 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral5.0%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive38.8%
Neutral16.3%
Negative45.0%

Pawaii

All ratings29 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative96.6%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral8.8%
Negative91.2%

User reviews

elspet

From 2.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Tracks very well
  • 👍 Cats love the box
  • 🚀 Saves time and litter
  • 👍 Easy to use

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Constantly gets stuck
  • 🐛 Difficult to clean
  • 🐛 Unreliable connection
  • 🐛 Poor customer support
  • 🐛 Frequent issues and breakdowns

Pawaii

From 31 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💧 Fountain works well
  • 🧼 Easy to clean fountain
  • 🤫 Quiet operation

Room to improve

  • ❌ App crashes frequently
  • ❌ App is unreliable
  • ❌ App doesn't connect
  • ❌ App login issues
  • ❌ App data is inaccurate

Bugs and requests

elspet

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Litter getting stuck in the middle
  • Litter spilling out of the box
  • Inability to fully empty the litter
  • Unreliable app connection
  • Malfunctioning features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Notify when litter box is full
  • Ability to track multiple cats
  • Longer cleaning cycle option
  • Easier cleaning process
  • Improved app functionality

Pawaii

Reported bugs

46 issues
  • App crashes immediately
  • App goes offline
  • App difficult to get back online
  • Pet's drinking habits aren't logged
  • Says water is low when it's not
Show 41 more
  • Can't add new tag or change existing tag
  • Can't add dog tags to app
  • Tracking portion does not work
  • App doesn't stay connected to Wi-Fi
  • Can't log in to the app
  • App shows fountain as offline
  • Fountain constantly shuts off
  • App won't let me log in
  • App crashes
  • App stated not connected to Wi-Fi
  • App suddenly no longer logs any info
  • Fails to reset filter timer
  • Volume of water drunk and number of times per day appears inaccurate
  • Constantly giving a message storage is full
  • App not logging any information
  • Can't turn off or control fountain through the app
  • App doesn't connect
  • App crashes every time I try to connect it to the fountain
  • Loses connection to internet frequently
  • Loses data history every time it disconnects
  • App keeps crashing
  • App won't let me sign in
  • App constantly freezes
  • First connection doesn't work at all
  • New unit connecting to Wi-Fi issues
  • App stopped tracking water intake
  • App doesn't differentiate between 2 cats
  • App doesn't work properly after the day passes
  • Last month's data is gone/not accessible
  • Can't change the time
  • Reports the time incorrectly
  • Went offline and can't get it to connect again
  • App won't pair on a 5G network
  • App doesn't stay online
  • Directions to sync app don't make sense
  • App has bugs
  • App functions but needs work
  • App won't let me do anything or set up fountain without location
  • Constant falls 'offline'
  • Time data is inaccurate
  • No timezone adjustment in settings

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to track multiple cats
  • Fix app to work on 5G networks
  • Improve English language support
  • Allow app use without location sharing
  • Fix inaccurate time reporting
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  • Ability to differentiate between multiple pets

In-app purchases

None

elspet

No in-app purchases

None

Pawaii

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is elspet free?
elspet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pawaii free?
Pawaii is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, elspet or Pawaii?
elspet is rated higher. elspet averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Pawaii averages 1.2 from 31 ratings.
Do elspet or Pawaii have ads?
Neither elspet nor Pawaii shows ads.
Which is updated more often, elspet or Pawaii?
elspet ships an update every 16 months, and Pawaii monthly. Most recently, elspet was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pawaii on November 3, 2026.

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