Comparison

Motion Platform vs Connect with ODIN V2

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

Head to head
About

Motion Platform

This application provides building control and alarm management for engineers, tenants, and owners. It offers real-time data, historical charts, configuration tools, and scheduling for building systems. Receive instant push notifications for all alarm events, ensuring immediate awareness and response.

Highlights
  • Real-time live data for building systems
  • Data history and live charts
  • Configuration tools for hubs and devices
  • Alarm management and logging
  • Versatile scheduling for writable tiles
  • Push notifications for alarm events
Features
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Motion.cloud (a.k.a. Motion®) is what building engineers, tenants, owners, and literally everyone in the building wants to use! These are building controls designed for every type of user in (or away from) the building. The Motion Platform app takes alarms and control to the next level with a full series of push notifications that accompany every Motion® alarm event on your iPhone and iPad. And for iPad specifically, a fullscreen experience makes the Motion Platform app kiosk-mode-ready—no more web browser elements taking up precious space on the screen. The Motion Platform app keeps your team fully aware of alarm conditions by immediately notifying you when alarm events start, are acknowledged, and are cleared. Like Motion® in your web browser, the Motion Platform app provides you with: • The absolute fastest live data for all your tiles (data points) at all your properties • Data history and live charts for supported data types • Configuration tools for Motion® hubs, devices, grants (permission sharing), tiles, apps, and more • Management tools for alarms, and data logging for alarm acknowledgments, clearances, and historical data • The easiest and most versatile scheduling tools for all writable tiles (e.g. temperature set points, on/off settings, etc.) Motion.cloud is designed for architects, building engineers, contractors, building automation control hardware distribution providers, property owners, property staff, and all others involved in building automation control installation, management, and procurement. Motion Hub software layers on top of your existing layer of hardware and makes creating dead-simple, yet robust dashboards for your properties. Motion® uses the same protocols you're already using (BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP, etc.) so no proprietary hardware is required. And even better: no programming skills are required (that would make us as hard to use as the other guys) and no messing around with networks, firewalls, and ancient servers in closets running operating systems from decades ago. As long as you have an internet connection, our software takes care of secure access to your controls, all from our cloud—and this app! This is the cloud-based platform the building automation controls industry has been waiting for. Don't get us wrong—we love our competitors because they make the controls hardware you already know and trust. But we're not a hardware company. We're all about making the best software. Motion's cloud-based platform offers simply the best user experience, and it's backed by a state-of-the-art infrastructure a generation ahead of all the others.

About

Connect with ODIN V2

Instantly connect to any BACnet enabled device or building management system from anywhere. This app provides a simplified interface for managing multiple sites, viewing site information, and controlling equipment. It also offers notification management and schedule adjustments for building systems.

Highlights
  • Connect to BACnet devices
  • Manage multiple sites
  • View site location and weather
  • Organize equipment in tree format
  • Command objects and view trend data
  • Manage building notifications
  • Adjust weekly schedules and exceptions
Features
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To begin your site setup, contact ODIN at: ConnectwithODIN.com Easily and instantly connect to any BACnet enabled device or BACnet enabled building management system from anywhere, at any time, with a comprehensive, yet simplified user interface. Connect with ODIN is a complementary mobile app to the ODIN server software installed at building sites, which then connects to the cloud for access, continuous updates, storage, and backups. Multiple Site Connection - Cloud access provides seamless navigation between sites from one login Site Connection Page - Automatically displays location of building site and current weather - In a tree format, lists all groups for zones or building equipment - Drill down to each group and you will navigate to their objects list. You can then command certain objects and/or view trend data of certain objects. Notification Page - Provides a list of unacknowledged notifications for ease of identifying current building issues - Acknowledge these notifications on the fly Schedule Page - If schedules have been configured, you will have the ability to view and adjust that weekly schedule - View, adjust, create, and remove exceptions to individual schedules

Screenshots

Motion Platform4 screens
Connect with ODIN V24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Motion Platform at weekly against Connect with ODIN V2's every 5 weeks. Motion Platform also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Motion Platform against 5.0 for Connect with ODIN V2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Motion Platform has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Motion Platform ships an update weekly, Connect with ODIN V2 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Motion Platform versus Connect with ODIN V2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotion PlatformConnect with ODIN V2
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMotion LLCODIN Building Automation Systems, LLC

Customer experience

Motion Platform

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Connect with ODIN V2

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Motion Platform

No in-app purchases

None

Connect with ODIN V2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Motion Platform free?
Motion Platform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Connect with ODIN V2 free?
Connect with ODIN V2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Motion Platform or Connect with ODIN V2?
Motion Platform and Connect with ODIN V2 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 15 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Motion Platform or Connect with ODIN V2 have ads?
Neither Motion Platform nor Connect with ODIN V2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Motion Platform or Connect with ODIN V2?
Motion Platform ships an update weekly, and Connect with ODIN V2 every 5 weeks. Most recently, Motion Platform was updated on August 29, 2026 and Connect with ODIN V2 on September 11, 2026.

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