Comparison

ADT Pulse ® vs SensorPull

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

Head to head
About

ADT Pulse ®

Control your home or business security and automation system remotely. Manage cameras, lights, locks, and thermostats, and receive alerts for peace of mind. Arm or disarm your system, adjust settings, and set custom automations from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Remote system arming/disarming
  • Control lights, locks, and thermostats
  • View live surveillance camera feeds
  • Receive security and arrival alerts
  • Set custom automations and schedules
  • Remote door lock/unlock
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The ADT Pulse® app allows you to control your home or business security and automation system from virtually anywhere. Using your iOS device, you can manage your home or business security system, surveillance cameras, lights, locks, thermostats and more! With a tap or swipe you can easily help protect what matters most to you, and enjoy an additional level of peace of mind. With ADT Pulse, you can: • Arm your system before you leave your home or business from virtually anywhere in the world. • Turn on your lights right from your app before you arrive at home or work. • Ensure you have turned off small appliances after you leave your home directly through the app. • Lock and unlock your doors remotely to allow the dog sitter or others to enter your home when you’re away. • Receive alerts when your children arrive home from school and view live video to check in on them. • Adjust your thermostat or put it on a schedule that fits your life. • Set up custom automations and schedules with vacation modes for the ultimate amount of control for your home! To use the ADT Pulse app, you must be an active ADT customer and subscriber to ADT Pulse interactive services.

About

SensorPull

Features
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Bring your environmental data to every Apple screen. SensorPull bridges the gap between your physical climate trackers and your daily devices, delivering a premium, ecosystem-wide tracking experience. Simply link your SensorPush account via SensorPush's own secure login page. Once linked, SensorPull automatically stays signed in across all your devices using the same Apple account. You can instantly access your live data on your wrist, through voice commands, or directly on your home screen. No subscriptions, no hidden tracking, and no third-party data analytics. NATIVE & STANDALONE APPLE WATCH APP Leave your iPhone behind without losing your data. SensorPull for Apple Watch is fully independent, allowing you to authenticate directly from your wrist. Add high-utility complications to any watch face—including corner complications—for instant environmental updates at a glance. ZERO-FRICTION SIRI INTEGRATION Get hands-free climate updates from across the room or on your drive home via CarPlay. Just ask Siri for specific sensor data, and receive a natural, detailed response including the current value, reading trends, and the exact timestamp of the last measurement. DEEP HISTORICAL CHARTS & INSIGHTS Never lose your climate history. SensorPull automatically caches your SensorPush historical log directly on your device. Analyze temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, dew point, and VPD across hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly timelines—even when you are offline. POWER-USER DATA EXPORTS Take full control of your climate tracking. Open any sensor data log as a raw spreadsheet directly within the app, or export your full history as a standard CSV file to analyze in Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, or your preferred data science tools. GLANCEABLE HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Stay informed with customizable iOS widgets available in multiple sizes (small, medium, large, and extra-large) and Lock Screen complications (inline, circular, and rectangular). Configure separate widgets for different environments so your nursery, wine cellar, and greenhouse data each have a dedicated space. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your environmental data is your business. SensorPull operates with absolute privacy: no user tracking, zero advertisements, and no third-party telemetry. Authentication is handled directly via SensorPush's own secure login page. SensorPull never sees or stores your password. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS SensorPull is a companion utility for SensorPush hardware. To use this application, you must have active SensorPush sensors, a valid user account, and an active SensorPush G1 WiFi Gateway to transmit data over the cloud. New to SensorPush or need to expand your setup or buy hardware? Explore the sensors and gateway here: https://link.amazon/B056tP4Zm Note about Widgets: Apple limits background refresh schedules to conserve device battery, capping updates at roughly 40 to 70 times per day (every 15 to 60 minutes). Because of this system limitation, widgets can occasionally display delayed readings. For guaranteed up-to-date data, always open the SensorPull app directly or glance at the live Mac menu bar.

Screenshots

ADT Pulse ®4 screens
SensorPull4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ADT Pulse ® at 13.0 against SensorPull's 18.6. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ADT Pulse ® versus SensorPull: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADT Pulse ®SensorPull
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (850K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings850K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperADT LLCChristophe Delhaze

Bugs and requests

ADT Pulse ®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App unable to connect to security system
  • Camera feeds frequently going offline
  • Arm/disarm functions not working reliably
  • Notifications not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to view full video history
  • Geofencing for automatic arming/disarming
  • Tighter integration with smart home devices
  • Faster app response times

SensorPull

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ADT Pulse ®

No in-app purchases

None

SensorPull

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ADT Pulse ® free?
ADT Pulse ® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SensorPull free?
SensorPull is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ADT Pulse ® or SensorPull have ads?
Neither ADT Pulse ® nor SensorPull shows ads.

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