Comparison

BeoLink vs Crescendo Remote

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

Head to head
About

BeoLink

Control your Bang & Olufsen home automation systems from your iPhone or iPod touch. Manage audio, video, lighting, and curtains with intuitive gestures and pre-set scenes. Experience seamless integration and effortless control of your smart home environment.

Highlights
  • Control Bang & Olufsen products
  • Intuitive finger gestures
  • Create custom automation scenes
  • Automatic screen generation
  • Automatic system discovery
  • Support for multiple homes and users
  • Demo mode for preview
Features
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Close the curtains, dim the lights and adjust the music, all with a single tap on your iPhone or iPod touch. Bang & Olufsen home automation (BeoLink) controls all systems of modern homes; audio, video, lighting, curtains, etc. BeoLink for iPhone puts all this power in your pocket. Using Wi-Fi, BeoLink for iPhone controls Bang & Olufsen products and other home automation devices in your home, via the Beo​Link Gateway. You get a simple and intuitive iPhone app built with Bang & Olufsen's exceptional ergonomics and ease of operation, that is an experience in itself. A simple swipe of your finger changes the channel or raises the volume, without even looking away from the TV screen. A quick tap and the mood of the room changes completely, including lighting, temperature, music and more. Features: - controls Bang & Olufsen's products in your BeoLink network. - finger gestures: control your home without looking at the phone screen. - automation scenes: completely change the mood of a room, or of the whole house. - automatically generates the screens to match your home set-up. - discovers your system automatically and downloads your home configurations. - supports multiple homes and multiple user profiles. - a demo mode is also included to preview the experience. Requirements: - Bang & Olufsen products connected via BeoLink network. - Either Bang & Olufsen Master Link Gateway or BeoLink Gateway in the same network as your iPhone or iPod Touch. Please contact your Bang & Olufsen dealer for details on installation and compatibility.

About

Crescendo Remote

Features
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Crescendo Remote is an independent third-party control app compatible with selected Bang & Olufsen speakers based on the Mozart Platform™. It lets you instantly restore complete listening setups across your home. Instead of repeatedly adjusting speaker settings and properties by hand, Crescendo Remote lets you save complete listening situations as Scenes and return to them instantly with a single tap, Siri, or Shortcuts. Create dedicated setups for focused listening, movies, late-night sessions, radio, vinyl, podcasts, or multiroom listening. Crescendo Remote is designed to make complex high-end audio setups faster, calmer, and more personal to use every day. — SCENES INSTEAD OF REPEATED MANUAL CONTROL — At the center of Crescendo Remote are Scenes: user-defined listening situations that can combine volume, source, sound settings, and multiroom routing across one or multiple speakers. Instead of rebuilding the same setups over and over again, Scenes can be restored instantly - whether for music in the morning, radio while cooking, vinyl sessions on weekends, film nights, or quieter listening in the evening. Especially in multi-speaker environments, Crescendo Remote reduces everyday friction by keeping complex listening states ready whenever they are needed. — PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE SUGGESTIONS — Crescendo Remote can privately learn from the way you use your Scenes and suggest relevant listening situations over time using on-device machine learning. The app never changes anything automatically or takes control away from the listener. Crescendo Remote is designed to support listening rituals - not replace them. — DEEP APPLE ECOSYSTEM INTEGRATION — Crescendo Remote supports Siri, Shortcuts, HomeKit, and iCloud Sync. Scenes can be triggered outside the app through Siri and Shortcuts, integrated into larger personal automations, and synchronized across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Through HomeKit integration, Crescendo Remote can also trigger existing HomeKit Scenes - allowing audio, lighting, and room atmosphere to work more closely together. — NIGHT MODE AND MORE THAN TWENTY THEMES — Beyond functionality, Crescendo Remote places strong emphasis on a calm and refined interface. A dedicated Night Mode features a reduced black-and-red interface inspired by instrument displays and low-light environments. More than twenty curated Themes bring materiality and personal expression into the digital layer - from understated silver, gold, and titanium-inspired interfaces to more expressive color variations designed for different rooms, moods, and listening situations. — COMPATIBILITY — Crescendo Remote is compatible with selected Bang & Olufsen speakers based on the Mozart Platform™. Supported devices include: • Beolab 8 • Beolab 28 • Beosound 2 (3rd gen) • Beosound A5 • Beosound A9 (5th gen) • Beosound Balance • Beosound Emerge • Beosound Level • Beosound Theatre • Beoconnect Core • Beosound Premiere Bang & Olufsen and Mozart Platform are trademarks of Bang & Olufsen a/s. Crescendo Remote is an independent third-party application and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise associated with Bang & Olufsen a/s.

Screenshots

BeoLink4 screens
Crescendo Remote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BeoLink at Free against Crescendo Remote's $9.99. BeoLink also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 18.4). Crescendo Remote's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads 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

BeoLink is free to download; Crescendo Remote costs $9.99 up front. Crescendo Remote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BeoLink asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BeoLink ships an update every 3 months, Crescendo Remote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BeoLink versus Crescendo Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeoLinkCrescendo Remote
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating2.9 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB29 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBang & Olufsen a/sAndreas Rothaug

In-app purchases

None

BeoLink

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Crescendo Remote

One-time1
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is BeoLink free?
BeoLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crescendo Remote free?
Crescendo Remote costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do BeoLink or Crescendo Remote have ads?
Neither BeoLink nor Crescendo Remote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BeoLink or Crescendo Remote?
BeoLink ships an update every 3 months, and Crescendo Remote every 2 weeks. Most recently, BeoLink was updated on October 12, 2026 and Crescendo Remote on October 8, 2026.

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