Comparison

RTiPanel vs Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour

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

Head to head
About

RTiPanel

This app provides personalized control for professionally installed smart home and business systems. It allows users to manage lighting, climate, security, and entertainment from their iPhone or iPad, with customizable scenes and remote access.

Highlights
  • Personalized smart device control
  • Create custom scenes and automations
  • Remote access from anywhere
  • Control lighting, climate, and security
  • Customizable graphical interface
  • Full support for RTI Music
  • Two-way feedback with cover art and graphics
Features
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The RTiPanel app works exclusively with professionally installed RTI control and automation systems, enabling your iPhone or iPad to control the connected smart devices and systems in your home or business. PERSONALIZED CONTROL RTiPanel is completely customizable by your RTI integrator to deliver intuitive and personalized mobile control of your lighting, climate, security, entertainment, and more—the same control you get with your dedicated RTI remote or touch panel. CREATE SCENES AND AUTOMATIONS Your RTI integrator can combine multiple actions into personalized scenes and create automations based on time of day, weather, media selection or other inputs. CONTROL FROM ANYWHERE The RTiPanel app securely connects to your RTI control system via your local area network or through an Internet connection from anywhere – across town or around the world. Get custom alerts wherever you may be. Note: This application requires an RTI control system. Features: • Control Audio/Video, Lighting, Climate and other systems in your RTI smart home or business. • Access your RTI control system either locally or remotely. • Completely customizable graphical interface. • Intuitive new template and graphics • Full support for RTI Music • Programmed by your integrator using the same Integration Designer software that is used for all RTI products. • Supports the creation of both portrait and landscape views. • Supports full two-way feedback including cover art, graphics, text, dynamic scrolling lists, and more. • Supports local connection via Wi-Fi and remote connection via Wi-Fi or LTE, with automatic switching. • Highly optimized for fast connection times. • Control system programming is stored on the mobile device, and it updates automatically when changes are made. Please visit www.rticontrol.com for more information on RTI control systems.

About

Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour

Experience a comprehensive home automation system that controls entertainment, lighting, security, and more. This app allows you to explore the capabilities of a sophisticated whole-home solution before professional installation.

Highlights
  • Home automation system exploration
  • Control entertainment, music, lighting, temperature, security
  • Integrates with third-party smart home products
  • Customizable graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Explore control for multiple zones
Features
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See what it's like to take control of the URC Total Control 2.0 home automation and control system with the Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour app. Total Control 2.0 is URC’s flagship home automation and control system. This whole-home solution controls entertainment, music, lighting, temperature, security, surveillance and more. Designed to control up to 32 zones, Total Control 2.0 integrates seamlessly with a wide variety of compatible third-party entertainment and smart home products. This includes many brands of TVs, cable boxes, streaming music players, interior and exterior lighting, thermostats, door locks, surveillance cameras, door stations, pool equipment and much more. In addition to comprehensive control and integration possibilities, Total Control offers robust graphic (GUI) customization for connected mobile devices (such as smartphone or tablet) and URC user interfaces (such as touchscreens, remote controls and keypads). An authorized URC dealer can customize and even personalize the onscreen graphics with room images, backgrounds and icons from the URC image library or with photos from a smartphone, tablet or digital camera. Total Control 2.0 is professionally installed and programmed by a global network of URC systems integration professionals. It offers control for a variety of protocols including IR, IP, Serial, 12v triggers and relays. The system is network reliant and communicates via hard line connection and Wi-Fi. A compatible URC Advanced Network System Controller that has been fully programmed for Total Control 2.0 is required for operation. This application is not compatible with systems that are programmed for the previous version of Total Control, also called Total Control 1.0.

Screenshots

RTiPanel4 screens
Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour at 4.7 against RTiPanel's 2.7. Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour also leads on iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.0). RTiPanel's advantage is review sentiment (32% vs 0%) and ratings volume (67 vs 13). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RTiPanel has 67 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of RTiPanel's written reviews are positive against 0% of Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
RTiPanel versus Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRTiPanelTotal Control 2.0 Mobile Tour
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (67 ratings)4.7 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings67 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.010.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB111 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRemote Technologies Inc.Universal Remote Control

Customer experience

RTiPanel

All ratings67 ratings
Positive38.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative55.2%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive32.4%
Neutral7.4%
Negative60.2%

Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

RTiPanel

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes immediately upon opening
  • Freezes and requires complete deletion and reinstallation
  • Loses WiFi connection frequently
  • Incompatible with iOS 16.20 and newer versions
  • Stuck on loading screen after using other apps
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  • License recognition errors after reinstallation
  • Unresponsive buttons requiring multiple taps
  • App fails to recognize system after network changes
  • Incompatible with iPhone 12 and newer models
  • Hangs several times per year
  • Connection drops when iPad goes to standby
  • Demo mode screen flashing before loading interface

Requested features

10 requests
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Multi-location support without reconfiguration
  • Swipe gestures and notifications
  • Dark mode option
  • Remote file uploads and password-protected file extraction
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  • More pre-made templates for dealers
  • Touch recognition on release instead of press
  • Automatic app updates
  • Better iPhone optimization for smaller screens
  • Modern, updated UI design

Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RTiPanel

No in-app purchases

None

Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RTiPanel free?
RTiPanel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour free?
Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RTiPanel or Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour?
Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour is rated higher. RTiPanel averages 2.7 out of 5 from 67 ratings, while Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do RTiPanel or Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour have ads?
Neither RTiPanel nor Total Control 2.0 Mobile Tour shows ads.

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