Danfoss Ally™ vs Shelly Smart Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Danfoss Ally™
Control your home's radiator and underfloor heating from your smartphone. Optimize comfort and energy efficiency by adapting room temperatures to your daily schedule. Integrates with other smart home devices and voice assistants for seamless control.
- Full control of radiator and underfloor heating
- Adapt temperature to daily schedule
- Easy to use and install
- Remote control from anywhere
- Up to 30% energy savings
- Works with Alexa & Google Assistant
- Zigbee 3.0 certified
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Danfoss Ally™ - a new frontrunner in connected home heating It’s time to say hello to a smart heating system that fits into your pocket. Danfoss Ally™ gives you all the benefits of a full-blown smart heating system – in a simple easy-to-use app. With Danfoss Ally™ you get full control of your radiator and floor heating as well as your heating bill. From virtually anywhere and at any time whether you’re at home or on the go. You can even control your heating system with your voice as Danfoss Ally™ speaks with all your other IoT friends. The intuitive app user interface is designed to make your everyday life as simple and comfortable as possible. The app guides you through the quick set-up. Lets you fit your home heating to your daily routines. And gives you the complete overview and control at all times. Danfoss Ally™ is Zigbee 3.0 certified. This means that it speaks the same wireless language as tons of other smart home devices around the globe. Allowing you to connect Danfoss Ally™ to your existing smart home setup. And to make your smart home even smarter. Life is complicated enough as it is. No need for your smart heating to be. Key features: • Full control of radiator and underfloor heating via the app on your smartphone • A higher level of comfort and energy efficiency by adapting room temperature to a daily schedule • Easy to use and install with the intuitive app control • Designed to bridge form and functionality • Remote control from everywhere • Up to 30% energy savings • Fits all valves • A maintenance-free thermostat – the battery lasts up to two years • Works with Amazon Alexa & Google Assistant • Excellent temperature control • EPBD compliant • Open API • Zigbee 3.0 certified
Shelly Smart Control
Remotely monitor and control smart home devices from anywhere, either through the cloud or your local network. Manage lights, appliances, and sensors, and create custom automation scenes. Supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LAN connectivity for seamless integration.
- Remote device control
- Local network control
- Device monitoring
- Custom scheduling
- Scene creation
- Energy consumption monitoring
- Real-time alerts
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This app offers the possibility to control all Shelly devices remotely. You can monitor and control your devices from anywhere (by using the cloud option) or, if you do not want the Cloud option, you will still be able to monitor and control your devices from within your local network. Shelly devices do not need to be connected to the cloud or to send data there. The Shelly Home Automation portfolio includes a variety of relay switches, sensors, plugs, bulbs, and other controllers, all connected and controlled through your Wi-Fi network. The new Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro lines of products additionally support Bluetooth connectivity for faster device inclusion and communication, and the new Shelly Pro line offers LAN and Wi-Fi usage simultaneously. The entire Shelly portfolio is available at https://shelly.cloud/ Shelly devices are suitable to control lights, garage doors, curtains, window blinds, or other appliances, trigger actions based on certain parameters from sensor devices. Devices provide near real time notification on changes of the parameters they are measuring - energy consumption, temperature other environment values. All Shelly devices have: - Embedded Web server - Wi-Fi control and connectivity - APIs for observation and control A user account is required to access, include, and control Shelly devices through the application. Once Shelly account is registered, you can: - Connect the devices to an existing W-Fi network or use their Access Point mode locally to control other Shelly devices; - Include, manage, and operate as many Shelly devices as you need; - Configure devices and manage individual settings on every device; - Configure custom scheduling for automatic actions; - Create personalized rooms for more convenient organising and control of the devices; - Define custom Groups of devices to control multiple devices with one command within the app; - Build simple and complex scenes by combining Shelly devices to trigger certain actions in your home automation; - Monitor current and past electrical power consumption of the electrical circuit(s) and loads (for Shelly devices equipped with Power-measuring capabilities); - Build complex automation solutions for improved energy and operational efficiency; - Receive real time alerts and notifications based on your preference. Shelly devices are compatible with other widely used both local and cloud-based home automation platforms like Google Home or Alexa.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Danfoss Ally™ at 4.3 against Shelly Smart Control's 3.2. Danfoss Ally™ also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 15.0). Shelly Smart Control's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (4 vs 2). 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.
Danfoss Ally™ holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 87 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Danfoss Ally™'s written reviews are positive against 47% of Shelly Smart Control's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Danfoss Ally™ ships an update every 3 months, Shelly Smart Control every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Danfoss Ally™ | Shelly Smart Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (22 ratings) — better | 3.2 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews | 47.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 87 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 255 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danfoss A/S | SHELLY EUROPE EOOD |
Customer experience
Danfoss Ally™
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In-app purchases
Danfoss Ally™
No in-app purchases
Shelly Smart Control
No in-app purchases
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