SenseCraft vs ThingsBoard Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SenseCraft
Remotely control and monitor your smart devices from your mobile. Upgrade and configure devices via Bluetooth for efficient setup. Stay updated on device status and data from anywhere.
- Remote device control
- Real-time data monitoring
- Bluetooth device configuration
- Efficient device setup
- Anytime, anywhere access
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SenseCraft provides a simple way to experience IoT. It helps users remotely control the smart devices and displaying data by using your mobile devices. With the ability of upgrading and configuring devices by your Bluetooth, it saves enormous time and costs from setting up your devices. From the application, we are able to monitor the data and the status of the devices that were deploying outside anytime and anywhere.
ThingsBoard Cloud
Monitor and manage your IoT devices and data remotely. View dashboards, alarms, and device-specific information. Interact with configured mobile actions for seamless control.
- Browse dashboards
- View alarms
- Access device-specific dashboards
- Manage devices by profile
- Utilize mobile actions
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The ThingsBoard Cloud is a mobile application that was built using open-source Flutter ThingsBoard Application available on github (https://github.com/thingsboard/flutter_thingsboard_pe_app) and served by ThingsBoard IoT platform (http://thingsboard.cloud). It demonstrates common capabilities provided by ThingsBoard Mobile Application. The application allows you: * Browse dashboards * Browse alarms and open alarm specific dashboards * Browse devices grouped by device profile and open device specific dashboards * Use mobile actions configured within dashboard widgets
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ThingsBoard Cloud at 4.0 against SenseCraft's 2.8. SenseCraft's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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.
ThingsBoard Cloud holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of SenseCraft's written reviews are positive against 0% of ThingsBoard Cloud's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SenseCraft ships an update every 4 weeks, ThingsBoard Cloud every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SenseCraft | ThingsBoard Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (9 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Seeed Technology Inc. | ThingsBoard, Inc. |
Customer experience
SenseCraft
ThingsBoard Cloud
In-app purchases
SenseCraft
No in-app purchases
ThingsBoard Cloud
No in-app purchases
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