elspet vs PetNetizen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
PetNetizen
Manage all your smart pet devices from one app. Receive helpful notifications and enjoy a convenient, intelligent pet-raising experience. Easily control and monitor your pet's feeding and device status.
- Control smart pet devices
- Monitor device status
- Track pet feeding habits
- Easy device binding
- User-friendly interface
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PetNetizen APP是宠物智能设备管理平台，为您提供人性化的信息提示和交互，以及便捷的智能产品服务。轻松通过手机APP控制所有的智能设备，为您开启智能养宠生活。 1.随心操控，轻松易用手机一键绑定，您可以轻松掌握设备添加与操作，随心操控智能产品。 2.智能便捷，您可以在APP上查看每个设备的运行状态。除此之外，还能了解宠物的进食情况，让高品质的产品走进爱宠生活。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: elspet at 4.6 against PetNetizen's 1.5. elspet also leads on review sentiment (39% vs 9%) and ratings volume (2K vs 52). PetNetizen's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 16 months). 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.
elspet holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: elspet has 2K ratings behind it against 52, 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 9% of PetNetizen's.
elspet ships an update every 16 months, PetNetizen fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | elspet | PetNetizen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2K ratings) — better | 1.5 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.8% of reviews — better | 8.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧 丁 | Shenzhen Yunchong Intelligence Technology Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
elspet
PetNetizen
User reviews
elspet
From 2K App Store ratingsWhat 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
PetNetizen
From 52 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use when working
- 👍 Reliable when functioning correctly
- 💡 Good customer service response
- 👍 Works perfectly for some users
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connection issues
- 🐛 Frequent disconnections
- 🐛 App becomes unusable after updates
- 🐛 Only one phone can connect
- 🐛 Device goes offline
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
PetNetizen
Reported bugs
37 issues- App won't stay connected
- Cannot pair a second phone
- Device says it's connected to another when it's not
- App disconnects after a few seconds
- App won't stay connected to the feeder
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- Barely able to change feeding schedule
- App kept disconnecting from Bluetooth
- Wouldn't feed cat automatically
- App was useless for about a month
- Connection with phone would fail immediately
- App will not stay connected long enough to edit meal plan
- Device keeps going on and off-line
- Won't connect anymore
- Feeder doesn't work anymore
- Can no longer connect to devices, or disconnects instantly
- Will not dispense or connect food anymore
- App is stuck on the scanning page
- Stopped connecting, would not allow to reconnect, and stopped feeding
- App doesn't work anymore, spits food out whenever it feels like it
- Cannot control feeders from phone anymore
- Cannot click feeders to select them
- Cannot tap to select the device
- New version is bad
- Cannot select the device within the app
- Tried uninstalling and reinstalling and now that just made it so I can’t connect to my device
- Updated app stopped working
- Can't access the feeder for manual feed or to set up scheduled feedings
- App is buggy and gives false logs
- Inconsistent with knowing what day of the week it is
- Logged a portion without actually dispensing it
- Logging is not in chronological order
- Stopped responding
- App won’t recognize the automatic feeder
- Feeder shows up but you cannot select it
- Stopped working thru app
- Can’t get app back, would not recognize scan
- App stopped working as did feeder
Requested features
3 requests- Allow multiple phone connections
- Improve Wi-Fi compatibility (5G support)
- Ensure app stability after updates
In-app purchases
elspet
No in-app purchases
PetNetizen
No in-app purchases
