Comparison

Contabo Storage vs Smart Home Playground Analyzer

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

Head to head
About

Contabo Storage

Features
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Your Contabo buckets, on every Apple screen. Contabo Storage is the native way to browse object storage on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, open files in place, and play video and audio straight from the cloud. No more copying a link into a browser just to check one file. Open the app, pick a bucket, and move through folders the way you move through Photos or Files. Photos look sharp on the iPhone display. Documents open without a full download. Video and audio start playing from Contabo, so a 4K clip or a long podcast does not have to land on your device first. On iPad it feels like a desk: a wide browser beside the preview, made for reviewing a media library or a client folder. On a Mac with Apple silicon it is the same app, fast and quiet, for the days you are sorting backups or pulling assets into a project. Sign in once with your Contabo S3 keys and the EU, US, or Singapore endpoint. Your buckets follow you. Built for Contabo’s S3 API. Upload from the camera roll or Files, rename, delete, and share without opening a generic cloud console. If your files already live on Contabo, this is the Apple app that lets you browse them, open them, and press play. Download Contabo Storage for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

About

Smart Home Playground Analyzer

Discover and visualize all devices connected to your home Wi-Fi network. This privacy-focused tool uses on-device AI to identify gadgets, services, and protocols, making your smart home ecosystem visible and manageable.

Highlights
  • Deep network scanning
  • Intelligent device identification
  • Service and protocol interrogation
  • Interactive visual network diagram
  • Universal Apple native app
  • 100% private, zero data harvesting
Features
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"Scan your Wi-Fi and every device comes back with a real name instead of an IP address. Tap any one to see what it's actually running. Nothing you find ever leaves your device. It usually starts with a router page full of numbers and one smart plug that has stopped answering. Working out which line is which shouldn't take an evening. Smart Home Playground Analyzer does it in seconds, and then goes a good deal further. WHAT IT DOES Deep network scan — sweep your local network and find everything on it. Smart home gear, speakers, TVs, wearables, laptops, and the two or three things you forgot you owned. Names, not numbers — on-device AI recognizes the hardware on your Wi-Fi and gives it a name you'll actually recognize. Device Inspector — tap any device for the full picture. Who made it, what services it's got open, which protocols and ports it's using, and how it reaches your network. Smart Home Inspector Report — a readable summary of your whole network, from media capabilities through to Matter fabric analysis. Reads in 13 languages. Protocol tagging — the app asks each device what it speaks and labels it: Matter, Thread, AirPlay, Cast, mDNS, Bonjour. Built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac in Swift. Scan from the couch, dig into the details at your desk. CONTROL, AND WHAT THAT MEANS HERE Two specific things, and it's worth being straight about the limits up front. Cast playback — play, pause, skip and change volume on your Cast-enabled speakers and displays. On iPhone and iPad, a Live Activity keeps the controls on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while something's playing. On Mac, they appear in Control Center's Now Playing and on your media keys while the app is open. That's the whole of it. This isn't a universal remote. It won't talk to your TV over infrared, and it doesn't do Roku, Fire TV or a cable box. If that's what you need, there are excellent apps out there that do it. IT FITS INTO YOUR DEVICE PROPERLY Spotlight — the devices you discover get indexed locally, so you can search a device name from the Home Screen and land straight on it. Siri and Shortcuts — App Intents let you run a scan, check what's online, or control playback by voice or inside your own automations. WHO THIS IS FOR The person whose smart plug dropped off the network and can't work out why. The IT professional who'd rather audit an unfamiliar network in five minutes than an afternoon. And anyone who's simply curious about what's going on in their own house. ABOUT PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No server anywhere. Every scan and every bit of AI identification happens on the device in your hands, and the results stay there. Your home network is nobody's business but yours, and the app is built to keep it that way. Take control of your smart home with a tool made by the curious, for the curious. Something broken or missing? Get in touch — every message gets read."

Screenshots

Contabo Storage4 screens
Smart Home Playground Analyzer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Smart Home Playground Analyzer at Free against Contabo Storage's $9.99. Smart Home Playground Analyzer also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 28 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Smart Home Playground Analyzer is free to download; Contabo Storage costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contabo Storage ships an update every 28 months, Smart Home Playground Analyzer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Contabo Storage versus Smart Home Playground Analyzer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContabo StorageSmart Home Playground Analyzer
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS27.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJose LealARSHAM HATAMBEIKI

In-app purchases

None

Contabo Storage

No in-app purchases

None

Smart Home Playground Analyzer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contabo Storage free?
Contabo Storage costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smart Home Playground Analyzer free?
Smart Home Playground Analyzer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Contabo Storage or Smart Home Playground Analyzer have ads?
Neither Contabo Storage nor Smart Home Playground Analyzer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contabo Storage or Smart Home Playground Analyzer?
Contabo Storage ships an update every 28 months, and Smart Home Playground Analyzer fortnightly. Most recently, Contabo Storage was updated on October 27, 2026 and Smart Home Playground Analyzer on October 31, 2026.

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