Odido vs Calex Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Odido
Manage all your home, mobile, business, or prepaid subscriptions in one place. Quickly check usage, bills, credit, and make changes to your plans. Access exclusive app-only deals and personalized recommendations.
- Check usage, bills, and payments
- Alter subscriptions and bundles
- Manage multiple subscriptions
- Personalized recommendations
- Exclusive app-only deals
- Top up data
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The Odido App gives you instant insight. Do you have a subscription for home, mobile, business or Prepaid? Great! With this app you can quickly check your usage, bills, subscription, credit, purchases, accounts and much more. Just sign in with your Odido username and password. And if you have more than one subscription, you can easily add the others. It starts with the Odido App - a new phone - another subscription - answers to all your questions Everything under control - you can check your usage, bills and payments - easily alter subscriptions and bundles. - quickly manage what you want to change Made for you - recommendations especially for you - you'll immediately see whether you can renew - easily top up your data Everyone is welcome - for home, mobile, business or Prepaid - manage all your Odido subscriptions - easy, and always accessible Safe - your account is fully secured - two-factor authentication (2FA) - Odido takes care of your privacy App-Only Deals every month - smart gadgets at a discount - for home and on the go - only in the app Permissions The Odido App may ask permission for: - access to your contacts to personalize your usage - push notifications, for example during maintenance or when you can renew We only use permissions for the Odido App and you can't send them to us.
Calex Smart
Control your smart lights and appliances with ease. Automate your devices using smart routines for seamless on/off control. Enjoy plug-and-play installation via WiFi without needing an extra hub.
- Control smart lights and appliances
- Create smart routines
- Plug and Play WiFi installation
- No additional gateway needed
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1. Easily control your smart lights and appliances via the Calex Smart app 2. Use smart routines to switch lights and appliances on and off 3. Plug and Play installation based on WiFi 4. You do not need an additional gateway/Hub
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Calex Smart at free against Odido's free with in-app purchases. Calex Smart also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Odido's advantage is ratings volume (944 vs 35) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Calex Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Odido has 944 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Odido's written reviews are positive against 34% of Calex Smart's.
Odido ships an update every 3 weeks, Calex Smart every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Odido | Calex Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (944 ratings) | 4.3 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.0% of reviews | 33.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 944 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 266 MB | 253 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Odido Netherlands B.V. | Electro Cirkel Retail B.V |
Customer experience
Odido
Calex Smart
User reviews
Odido
From 944 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 🚀 Handige App
- 💡 Top!
- 💡 Spectacular
- 💡 Super useful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Werkt niet goed
- 🐛 Why so bad
- 🐛 Poor
- 🐛 Traag
- 🐛 Kan niet verder met wachtwoord vergeten?
Calex Smart
From 35 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Good value for money
- 👍 Intuitive and flexible app
- 💡 Lights work well
- 💡 Easy to use app
- 💡 Good control over brightness and hue
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent connection issues
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Difficult device pairing
- 🐛 Poor integration with Apple Home
- 🐛 Devices go offline randomly
Bugs and requests
Odido
Reported bugs
20 issues- Can't sign up
- For those looking for an app from USA
- I'm an 'idiotic' American...
- Why is this in Dutch and not English??????
- This is the wrong app
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- For Netherlands not US
- Hahahaha what a wonderful surprise
- Idiotic Americans?
- Why is this app even in our apple store in English ?
- PiousVenom
- Why isn't the app in English ??
- Why if we are in USA can't we use English ?
- App is showing up in different language
- Can't login stuck in different language!
- No English version
- Why did I DOWNLOAD A TMOBILE APP FOR THE NETHERLANDS???
- How in the world do I get this app to come up in English??
- I'm just confused why the Netherlands has a better app for t-mobile than the U.S. does.
- Why not English?
- Hard to use because of language
Requested features
10 requests- Quite good and helpful but just one thing...
- Ignore the reviews
- Wrong language category (Not English)
- STOP REVIEWING, DUMB AMERICANS
- The app for Tmobile US is complete crap.
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- Useful, but could be much better
- Bad
- English?
- ENGLISH!!!
- Stop complaining
Calex Smart
Reported bugs
52 issues- App crashes when changing color
- App crashes on iPhone
- App keeps crashing or losing connection
- App loses connection for no reason
- Devices go offline and won't reconnect
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- App duplicates automation routines on edit
- Light stops responding, app stops responding
- Smart plug flashing blue and won't reset
- Bulb in disco mode, app refuses to pair
- Lights start flashing sometimes
- App can't find devices
- Scheduled automations don't happen
- Verification code not sent
- Popup about bad signal obstructs settings
- Timer function randomly closes app
- App no longer allows music sync for lights
- App gives non-stop reviews
- Bluetooth connection issues, app hardly recognizes bulbs
- App forgets bulbs after going to home page
- Cannot change warmth of light, stuck on cool white
- Bulb appears offline when away from home
- App refuses to pair
- Unskippable ad to turn off light
- Advertisements every time app is opened
- Device doesn't connect sometimes
- Randomly loses connection and lamp flashes
- App crashes
- Account cannot be verified or network error
- Cannot reset password, account doesn't exist
- Devices keep dropping out and need re-adding
- Bulb goes offline and needs resetting
- Siri integration doesn't work, custom keyword reverts
- Annoying dialog after executing a task
- Bulb keeps going offline and flashing
- Getting alerts outside of scheduled times
- Pairing process is terrible for multiple devices
- Cannot pair all bulbs on a single switch
- App keeps losing connection with the watch
- Apple Watch integration is poor
- Randomly woken up by light turning on/flickering
- App doesn't realize bulb isn't responding
- Bulb doesn't respond to commands
- Update made lights unusable, cannot connect
- Disconnects randomly
- LEDs started flashing and couldn't be turned off
- Have to sign back into room every time
- Half of LED strip fell off
- Doesn't change colors, only dims
- Cannot link lamp
- No option to use as Bluetooth bulb
- App requests location services to add devices
- Old version of Apple widgets used
Requested features
22 requests- Widget support for Home Screen
- Dark mode
- Better Apple HomeKit integration
- Create widgets for iPhone Home Screen
- Integrate with Apple Shortcuts for custom automation
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- Add colour changing cycle to a scene
- Link items together to sync
- Proper control of colour cycling timings
- Sync multiple lights
- Add colour cycle to a scene
- Camera mode to sync lights with TV colors
- Dusk-dawn switching that follows sunset/sunrise
- Lock Screen widget for quick control
- Ability to turn all devices in a room on/off with one touch
- Scenes for entire rooms or home
- Fade up and fade down options
- Chain tasks together (e.g., 'turn off all lights')
- Define sets of colors for tasks
- Preview of color when setting up a task
- Use alternating color for configuration instead of strobing flash
- Add multiple devices at once connecting to the same WLAN
- Fade up and fade down instead of just on and off
In-app purchases
Odido
No in-app purchases
Calex Smart
No in-app purchases
