Comparison

Motion Platform vs DMX Engineering Cloud

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 app provides building control and alarm management for engineers, tenants, and owners. It offers real-time data, historical charts, configuration tools, and scheduling for building automation systems. Receive instant push notifications for all alarm events.

Highlights
  • Real-time building data
  • Alarm notifications and management
  • Data history and live charts
  • Configuration tools for devices
  • Versatile scheduling tools
  • Fullscreen kiosk mode for iPad
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

DMX Engineering Cloud

Features
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DMX Engineering is the companion app for DMX Engineering lighting products: casNEO LED controller, Omnibridge data bridge, and the DMX SuperMUX DMX multiplexer. • Finds your controllers on Wi-Fi automatically, or add them by IP address. • See what each unit is playing at a glance. • Open each controller's full web interface right inside the app. • Update firmware over the air — releases are saved on your phone, so an update works on a controller's own Wi-Fi with no internet. • Save your favourite looks and complete unit setups to your private DMX Engineering Cloud, and restore them to any unit — across phones. An account is optional: discover and manage units on your local network without signing in. The cloud library uses a free DMX Engineering Cloud account tied to your email. We never sell or share your data.

Screenshots

Motion Platform4 screens
DMX Engineering Cloud3 screens

Verdict

The call

Motion Platform and DMX Engineering Cloud are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Motion Platform versus DMX Engineering Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotion PlatformDMX Engineering Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMotion LLCJim Rhodes

In-app purchases

None

Motion Platform

No in-app purchases

None

DMX Engineering Cloud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Motion Platform free?
Motion Platform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DMX Engineering Cloud free?
DMX Engineering Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Motion Platform or DMX Engineering Cloud have ads?
Neither Motion Platform nor DMX Engineering Cloud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Motion Platform or DMX Engineering Cloud?
Motion Platform ships an update every 9 days, and DMX Engineering Cloud every 9 days. Most recently, Motion Platform was updated on November 3, 2026 and DMX Engineering Cloud on October 31, 2026.

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