Toolip for iPad vs Surplife
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.
Surplife
Control your smart lighting devices with ease. Add and manage multiple lights from a single application, allowing you to adjust settings remotely from any location.
- Add multiple devices
- Control multiple devices
- Remote device control
- Easy device management
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Surplife is a smart lighting control APP. Add and control multiple devices to the App so easy. Remotely control devices from anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Toolip for iPad at 5.0 against Surplife's 4.5. Toolip for iPad also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). Surplife's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Surplife has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Toolip for iPad ships an update every 2 months, Surplife fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toolip for iPad | Surplife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 53.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #143 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 479 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iDo Technology, Inc. | 明长 周 |
Customer experience
Toolip for iPad
Surplife
Bugs and requests
Toolip for iPad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Surplife
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lights turning on/off randomly
- Inability to save custom settings
- App crashing or not opening
- Lights not responding to app commands
- Scheduling feature not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- More holiday and theme options
- Ability to save custom scenes
- Improved app UI and navigation
- Multi-device syncing and control
- Integration with smart home platforms
In-app purchases
Toolip for iPad
No in-app purchases
Surplife
No in-app purchases
