Crestron Go vs GoBruKnow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crestron Go
This app provides an intuitive and reliable user interface for controlling various aspects of your home, workplace, or classroom. It offers dynamic navigation with interactive elements and real-time feedback for functions like lighting, temperature, and security.
- Intuitive user interface
- Dynamic navigation with swiping
- Interactive controls (knobs, sliders, gauges)
- Real-time feedback on settings
- Customizable control needs
- Support for Super Retina display
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Whatever you do with your mobile device, you want the experience to be intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable. With the Crestron Go app, your Crestron dealer can provide you with a thoroughly satisfying and intuitive user interface, customized to meet your exact control needs in the home, workplace, classroom, or for any specialized application or market. Crestron Go leverages spectacular Crestron Smart Graphics™ to enable dynamic navigation that includes swiping, knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists. It includes a full set of scalable buttons, sliders, knobs, and gauges for controlling virtually any function with real-time feedback of audio settings, lighting levels, room temperature, and security system status. With Crestron Go, you get toolbars and menus that scroll with momentum at the flick of a fingertip, giving you easy access to all your controlled devices, functions, and media content. Crestron Go affords a look and feel that’s consistent with the mobile smart device experience, yet uniquely your own. With support for the Apple Super Retina® display, your UI will look its best, while support for the Crestron VC-4 gives you a centralized server based alternative to individual hardware based control systems in every room.
GoBruKnow
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The GoBruKnow app gives Brown University Library patrons the convenience of contactless checkout. Download the app to your mobile device. While you are located within a Brown Library building, scan the barcode on the circulating materials you wish to borrow. Follow the app's easy steps to checkout. Visit library.brown.edu/info/borrowing for more information. Need help? Email rock@brown.edu or call 401-863-2165.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoBruKnow at none against Crestron Go's 1. GoBruKnow also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Crestron Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GoBruKnow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crestron Go ships an update every 4 months, GoBruKnow fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crestron Go | GoBruKnow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 356 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Crestron Electronics, Inc. | Meescan Inc. |
In-app purchases
Crestron Go
- Crestron Go Tablet - Default$99.99
GoBruKnow
No in-app purchases









