Toolip for iPad vs PowerView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Toolip for iPad
Remotely manage your smart home system, including security cameras, lighting, and climate control, from anywhere with an internet connection. Receive alerts for property entry and control access, irrigation, and energy usage.
- Remote operation of home control system
- View and control video cameras
- Arm, disarm, and inspect security
- Control lighting and create scenes
- Manage climate and irrigation zones
- Receive push notifications for property entry
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Use Toolip for iPad to remotely operate your Toolip Home Control system from any place where you have an internet connection. View and control your video cameras, review recorded video, arm, disarm or inspect you security, control access to property or building. Receive push notifications when someone enters your property by the optional ground radar and see the assigned camera tracking targets. Operate your lights, create and modify light scenes, inspect and switch climate modes, run irrigation zones and change their timing. Toolip Home Control is an extremely user friendly system that can automatically keep your property safe and secure while saving considerable amounts of energy and water through unprecedented integration.
PowerView
Control motorized window coverings from your mobile device. Adjust light and energy usage with a tap or automated schedules. Integrates with your connected home for ultimate convenience.
- Control motorized window coverings
- Group control of shades
- Customizable Scenes
- Automated Schedules
- Sunrise/Sunset scheduling
- Remote access with Gateway
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Control your home's window coverings from the convenience of your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. The PowerView® App provides intelligent operation of popular Hunter Douglas window coverings. Adjust your window coverings to manage incoming light and energy usage throughout your home with the tap of a button or through automated operation. The app merges seamlessly with your connected lifestyle to provide a level of convenience and ease for your automated window coverings. Features: • Control Hunter Douglas motorized window coverings, individually or in groups, throughout your entire home. • Quickly and easily navigate the app using built-in tabs: Dashboard, Rooms, Scenes, and Schedules. • Add favorite Scenes, Shades, and Schedules to your Dashboard, so they appear first whenever you open the app. • Create customized shade position settings called "Scenes" for convenience, or to manage your natural lighting and privacy needs throughout the day. • Put your Scenes in motion using Schedules. Easily program your Scenes to activate automatically at different times of day to deliver the look and comfort you want, without you having to press a button. Configure Schedules to occur at a specific time, or based on unique Sunrise and Sunset times in your specific location. • Easily enable or disable Schedules, so that your blinds take the day off when you do. • Manage your Home from anywhere with RemoteConnect™. This requires a PowerView® Gateway, an Internet connection, and initial in-home setup. If you need help or have a question, email us at PowerView@hunterdouglas.com or call 1-844-PWR-VIEW (US), 1-800-265-8000 (Canada).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Toolip for iPad at 5.0 against PowerView's 4.4. Toolip for iPad also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). PowerView's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 1). 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.
Toolip for iPad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PowerView has 2.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Toolip for iPad ships an update every 2 months, PowerView every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toolip for iPad | PowerView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (2.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 28.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iDo Technology, Inc. | Hunter Douglas |
Customer experience
Toolip for iPad
PowerView
Bugs and requests
Toolip for iPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PowerView
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes on launch
- Scenes not working as expected
- Inability to discover/connect to shades
- Inconsistent remote control functionality
- Automation schedules not triggering properly
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- Sync issues between app and physical shades
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Battery level indicators
- Conditional scenes based on weather
- Ability to adjust upper/lower limits
- Improved group scene management
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- Remote access without connectivity issues
In-app purchases
Toolip for iPad
No in-app purchases
PowerView
No in-app purchases









