SPAN Home vs Luma View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SPAN Home
This app provides smart control over your home's electrical panel, allowing you to monitor energy usage, manage individual rooms and appliances, and uncover cost-saving insights. It enhances home energy management and offers advanced features when paired with solar and battery systems, including EV charging.
- Real-time energy dashboard
- Room and appliance level control
- Cost saving insights
- Power outage protection
- EV charging integration
- Over-the-air updates
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For SPAN Panel MAIN 32 “This thing is a game changer. This is how you save money” - Jon Dawson, Next-gen builder “A long-overdue, borderline genius product that puts much-needed control back into the hands of homeowners.” - Wired Magazine “SPAN is now the center of my smart home. I’ve been waiting most of my life for this product” - A SPAN customer SPAN reinvented the 100-year-old electrical panel with smarter controls for smarter savings. It replaces your existing electrical panel and gives you complete control over every room and appliance in your home right from your phone. From anywhere in the world, the SPAN Home® App allows you to: Centralize your home’s energy data into one real-time dashboard, giving you a 360° view of your home’s energy performance Make real-time energy changes at the room and appliance level to suit your needs and lower your energy bill Uncover cost-saving insights designed to lower your energy bill and save you money When paired with solar panels and a home battery system, SPAN gives you the best protection against power outages by extending battery life by 40%, providing whole-home backup on a single battery system, and the unmatched flexibility to change what your battery system powers in an outage. Your SPAN Home can include SPAN Drive, a universal EV charger that delivers up to 41 miles of range per hour (48A, 11.52kW) of charging for the fastest charging speeds available - all without a service upgrade to install. The SPAN Home App is constantly improving with free, over-the-air updates designed to improve your experience and unlock greater savings.
Luma View
Monitor your security cameras remotely with live HD video streaming, event playback, and recording capabilities. Features include smart event search with object filtering, customizable grid views, and audio support. Manage multiple devices and access your footage anytime, anywhere from your tablet or mobile.
- HD live viewing (single/split screen)
- Synchronized playback (up to 16 channels)
- Smart Event Search (human/vehicle filtering)
- Push notifications for events
- Customizable grid views
- Snapshot and video recording
- Two-way audio support
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The all new Luma View app offers powerful features at your fingertips, allows you check on what matters – anytime, anywhere. Watch live video, user-friendly event search, playback, and save recordings, or take a snapshot all from your tablet or mobile device. • Enjoy HD live viewing of a single or split screen (4, 9, or 16 channels simultaneously) in both portrait and landscape modes with convenient pinch to zoom • Synchronize playback up to 16 channels • User-friendly Smart Event Search with human and vehicle filtering • Push message offer quick overview of latest events • Auto switch between high or standard resolution depending on your remote connection • Customize your grid views for multi-device management – Drag and drop cameras where you’d like them, even across multiple DVRs/NVRs • Easily scan timeline and playback to find recordings and events • Instantly capture snapshots or record videos with a tap of your finger • Add snapshots and video to your photo library for safe keeping or to share with family, friends, or colleagues • Listen or speak to whoever is on the other end (Audio support varies by camera model) • Remotely control pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SPAN Home at 3.6 against Luma View's 2.1. SPAN Home also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 13%). Luma View's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.6). 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.
SPAN Home holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SPAN Home has 104 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of SPAN Home's written reviews are positive against 13% of Luma View's.
SPAN Home ships an update fortnightly, Luma View every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPAN Home | Luma View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (104 ratings) — better | 2.1 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better | 12.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Span.io, Inc | Wirepath Home Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
SPAN Home
Luma View
User reviews
SPAN Home
From 104 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Innovative smart panel concept
- 💡 Provides energy usage insights
- 💡 Useful for backup flexibility
- 💡 Good integration with Tesla Powerwall
- 💡 Offers control over home loads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Connectivity issues (iffy, loses connection)
- 🐛 Slow loading times (5 seconds)
- 🐛 Unreliable data and inaccurate readings
- 🐛 Poor integration of multiple panels
Luma View
From 8 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Huge improvement over old app
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Event snooze function is a home run
- 🚀 Faster and more user-friendly
- 🌟 Waterfall view is great
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes on open/launch
- 🐛 Constantly crashing
- 🐛 Unreliable
- 🐛 App changes settings
- 🐛 Completely breaks and won't open
Bugs and requests
SPAN Home
Reported bugs
34 issues- App freezes on iPad
- Circuit switching sometimes fails
- App shows ads for other products
- Energy usage data is inaccurate or delayed
- PowerUp feature control is hidden
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- App needs force quit to work
- Data fails to load or stalls
- App loses connectivity with batteries
- System does not function as intended during power outages
- Estimated battery hours/minutes are incorrect
- App shows panel offline when it's online
- App recently deleted backup instructions
- App displays data hours old
- App crashes or encounters problems constantly
- App is slow to load
- App is sluggish and chunky
- App shows solar production at night
- App does not support Powerwall 2
- Responsiveness for switching breakers is poor
- Circuit monitoring breaks frequently
- Panel does not function offline
- Password change process is difficult
- App does not integrate multiple panels correctly
- Setup was a pain
- App in a cycle of constant loading
- App does not have native iPad support
- App UI looks dated
- App crashes and takes a while to launch
- App loses connection to battery system frequently
- App disconnects way too often
- App is seriously dumbed down from v1
- App has basic inconsistencies in real-time stats
- App data does not match Tesla App
- App only supports Alexa and it doesn't work
Requested features
23 requests- Unified view for multiple panels
- Improved app customization
- More robust connectivity
- Better Tesla battery integration support
- Easier labeling of breakers
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- Darker, more readable app interface
- Desktop dashboard/web app
- Smaller SPAN sub-panel option
- Modular sub-panel breaker monitoring
- Public API for Home Assistant integration
- Native iPad support (split screen, hover)
- More smart home integration (Apple HomeKit)
- Ability to toggle between panels with swipe
- Increased character limit for circuit names
- iOS Widget for at-a-glance data
- Schedule breakers to turn on/off automatically
- Better daily data view for breaker level changes
- 2FA for account security
- Historical usage per circuit
- SPAN Drive mode for solar-only charging
- Basic voltage readouts for grid diagnostics
- Improved Time of Day Plans functionality
- Fix for 'areas' feature for multi-panel setups
Luma View
Reported bugs
75 issues- Crashes on open
- App changes settings
- App breaks and won't open
- Issues with showing recordings or playback
- Misses footage
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- Cannot consistently access recordings
- Continuously quits working on iPhones
- Notifications not working
- Cannot see live feed
- Constantly glitching
- Notifications stop working
- Constantly stops working
- Requires deleting and reinstalling to fix
- Broken on iOS 26
- Crashes on Apple devices
- Clients cannot access cameras
- Needs update for iOS 26
- Always offline
- Reload every time it's used
- Have to uninstall and install every 3 months for alerts
- Crashes before loading screen
- No sound for notifications
- Doesn't always record
- Sound not very clear
- App crashes
- App won't open
- App crashes all the time
- Does not work with iOS 26/iPhone 17 Pro
- Freezes on startup screen and closes
- Can't connect
- Won't launch
- App does not work with latest iOS
- App does not launch
- Incredibly slow
- Periodically crashes
- Intrusion alerts stop working
- Terrible bug for a surveillance system
- Does not work with iOS 26
- Black screen with logo then crashes
- Broken
- Doesn't work at all
- Fails to record notifications
- Doorbell cam issues
- App hasn't worked from the start
- No iPad version
- Difficult to navigate
- Cannot access desired video point
- Always something wrong
- Not very reliable
- App makes cameras useless
- Notifications not working
- App icon notification numbers never reset
- Connection drops every time app is opened
- Fails to connect
- Cannot see cameras
- Monthly connection issues
- Barely functional
- Clunky app
- Cameras disappear for no reason
- Rarely functional
- App skipping
- Freezes for 3-4 seconds
- Opening app and seeing cameras is super slow
- Cameras constantly falling off connection
- Add Favorite Button missing
- Sends motion detection messages but devices offline
- Recent update messed everything up
- Connection failed in June, can't login in July
- Forgot password link not sending email
- New version blows up with 16 channel DVR
- Connection failed half the time
- Needs updating
- Not able to be put on Mac or PC
- Cannot cast to TV
- Cannot view on Mac or PC
Requested features
16 requests- Distinguish between people, animal, car, package
- Facial recognition and saving
- Ability to search by name
- Search with a single word
- Add skip ahead function
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- Add x2 speed option
- Add iPad version
- Add Mac or PC version
- Add ability to cast to TV
- Add Favorite Button
- Add dark mode
- Improve user interface for average user
- Add ability to distinguish between event types (people, animals, cars, packages)
- Implement facial recognition
- Allow searching by name or keyword
- Add x2 playback speed
In-app purchases
SPAN Home
No in-app purchases
Luma View
No in-app purchases









