Sky Smart Home vs Scent Tech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sky Smart Home
This app offers a smart approach to home insurance, integrating devices and services into a single platform. Monitor your home remotely with live camera feeds, receive alerts from sensors, and manage your insurance needs conveniently.
- Live HD camera feed
- Video doorbell alerts and communication
- Motion and contact sensor monitoring
- Leak detection alerts
- Automatic arming for home security
- Secure cloud video storage
- In-app customer support
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Welcome to Sky Smart Home, where you can feel close to home while you’re away. Watch all the action from your front door, live, and get everything you need in one simple package. Your privacy? Protected. Your clips? Secured. Your questions? Answered. And you’ll be set up before you know it, with step-by-step instructions in the Sky Smart Home app. What can I do in the Sky Smart Home app? Quick hello: Answer the door, even when you’re out. See it live: See all the moments from your front door, in crystal-clear HD. Saved for later: Your videos stay in the Cloud for 30 days. Worth sharing: Save clips and share them with anyone. Don’t have Sky Smart Home yet? Head to Sky.com to find out more.
Scent Tech
Control your scent machine remotely with this app. It offers automatic mode selection for various scenarios and allows for batch management of devices through customizable groups.
- Scent machine control
- Automatic mode selection
- Device grouping
- Batch management
- Customizable group names
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The Scent Tech APP is a scent machine control application, compatible with various connectivity modes，suitable for a variety of scent machine. Compatible with various types of scent machine, automatic selection of the corresponding setting mode, suitable for a variety of scenarios. With the device group function, users can customize group names. Devices can be moved to corresponding groups for batch management. You can set related data for the same group of devices in batches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sky Smart Home at 4.0 against Scent Tech's 2.2. Scent Tech's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 2) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Sky Smart Home holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scent Tech has 63 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Sky Smart Home's written reviews are positive against 14% of Scent Tech's.
Sky Smart Home ships an update monthly, Scent Tech every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sky Smart Home | Scent Tech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.2 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.8% of reviews — better | 13.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sky UK Limited | 俊 谢 |
Customer experience
Sky Smart Home
Scent Tech
Bugs and requests
Sky Smart Home
Reported bugs
15 issues- Error 401 code preventing app access
- Login access denied without password entry option
- Firmware update failures rendering app unusable
- App won't open - constant error messages
- Camera stuck on pink screen during setup
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- Indoor camera won't connect to WiFi
- Doorbell won't update firmware
- Auto-arm function not working after updates
- Video playback shows black screen despite stored footage
- Motion detection alerts but no recording
- App loses connection and locks up during updates
- Sensors disconnect and become unresponsive
- Chime won't pair with doorbell
- App takes excessive time to connect to cameras
- Settings screen appears with no add device option
Requested features
15 requests- Landscape full-screen video viewing mode
- Separate notification types for doorbell vs motion detection
- Phone ring alert instead of beep for doorbell
- Customizable notification sounds
- Portable/wireless chime option
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- SD card support for continuous recording
- Ability to set recording duration (not just 15 seconds)
- Two-way audio that works smoothly
- Adjustable camera quality and IR settings
- Dark mode for app
- Alexa integration
- Ability to purchase additional sensors
- Auto-arm that works reliably without opening app
- Better battery charge indicator for doorbell
- Adjustable water sensor sensitivity
Scent Tech
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sky Smart Home
No in-app purchases
Scent Tech
No in-app purchases
