Escea Remote vs EliteCloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Escea Remote
Control your gas fireplace remotely from your smartphone. Adjust temperature, turn it on/off, manage flame effects, and set timers for ultimate comfort and convenience.
- Remote on/off control
- Thermostat temperature adjustment
- Flame effect control
- Fan boost control
- Timer functions
- Multi-fireplace management
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*Experience fire at your fingertips with the Escea Fireplace Company - Gas Fireplace Remote. Compatible with any Escea D Series or MODE KS Series gas fireplace, this app allows you to control your fireplace from your smartphone – wherever you are. Walk into warmth every day with full control of your gas fireplace: - Turn the fireplace on and off - Set and adjust the thermostat for the perfect temperature - Turn “Flame Effect” on or off - Turn “Fan Boost” on or off - Set timer functions - Name and control multiple fireplaces in your home For more information on Escea or where to purchase Escea gas fireplaces, visit www.escea.com Only compatible with Escea D Series and MODE KS Series gas fireplaces at this time.
EliteCloud
Remotely manage your EliteControl security system from your smartphone. Arm or disarm alarms, control gates, doors, and lights. Receive instant, customizable notifications for various events, ensuring peace of mind whether you're home or away.
- Arm/Disarm security system
- Control doors, gates, and lights
- Receive push notifications
- Monitor system status and history
- Manage users and sites
- Bank-level encrypted connection
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EliteCloud connects your smartphone to any EliteControl security system from almost anywhere. Arm/Disarm your alarm, control garage doors, gates, lights & more. Receive notifications directly to your smartphone should anything happen when you are at home or away. Notifications are customisable and include alarms, power failure, battery failure, panic, fire, medical and tamper alarms. App Features • Arm/Disarm • Door, Gate & Lighting Control • Push Notifications • Monitoring • Fire • System History • System Status • User Management • Bank Level Encrypted Connection • Up to 100 Users • Control Up to 100 sites • Regular Updates Hardware Required for EliteCloud Smartphone App • ESL-2, ESL, V9 or Runner alarm system • ESL-2 IoT or IoT-MODULE with internet connection • new ECi For more information regarding compatibility & supported products, please contact your preferred security installer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EliteCloud at 4.4 against Escea Remote's 1.0. EliteCloud also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 16 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 9%). Escea Remote's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15). 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.
EliteCloud holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Escea Remote's written reviews are positive against 33% of EliteCloud's.
Escea Remote ships an update every 16 months, EliteCloud every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Escea Remote | EliteCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.8% of reviews | 32.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Escea Ltd | Arrowhead Alarm Products |
Customer experience
Escea Remote
EliteCloud
User reviews
Escea Remote
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to setup
- 👍 Quick to set up
- 👍 Works well (when it works)
- 👍 Slick new version (in 2016)
- 👍 Allows programmed timers to be set (though remote does it easily)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Very glitchy
- 🐛 Remote access hit and miss
- 🐛 Often completely unavailable
- 🐛 Not possible to set custom times
- 🐛 App has been left to rot
EliteCloud
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User friendly and easy to use
- 👍 Great system, very pleased
- 👍 Good value, stable and consistent
- 👍 Nice upgrade, great app
- 👍 Works well, solid and easy
Room to improve
- 🐛 Fails to connect often
- 🐛 Unreliable connection
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 Slow to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
Bugs and requests
Escea Remote
Reported bugs
50 issues- App crashes when reopened
- App crashes unexpectedly
- App broken in iOS 17
- App broken with latest iOS
- Fireplace goes offline
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- Cannot turn on fireplace
- Cannot find fireplace on network
- App doesn't work on mobile data network
- Fireplace unavailable on mobile data
- App has not worked for many months
- Timer doesn't work
- App affected by iPhone update
- App not working since iOS 16 update
- App no longer works with latest iOS
- Fireplace is unavailable half the time
- App does not connect remotely
- App does not connect
- Connection often drops out
- App is essentially useless
- Doesn't connect remotely
- App hardly ever works correctly
- App hangs trying to refresh
- Non Wifi/external connectivity no longer works
- App constantly jumps to remote mode
- App doesn't connect remotely
- App only connects via WiFi
- Timer doesn't work
- Remote feature doesn't work
- App will not connect remotely
- App can only be used on home WiFi
- App doesn't refresh
- App doesn't update with status
- App is hit and miss, more miss
- Cannot connect when app states not available
- App does not work without WiFi connection
- Cannot login to server
- App is unreliable
- App seems very unreliable
- App doesn't work
- App doesn't work remotely
- App doesn't work over 4G
- App doesn't refresh when going back into app
- App has connectivity issues
- App hardly ever works
- Fireplace is unavailable most of the time
- App doesn't work when at home
- App doesn't work over 4G
- App doesn't refresh
- App doesn't seem to allow timer changes
- App doesn't work since iOS 10 update
Requested features
14 requests- Add Alexa integration
- Add Google Home integration
- Add Apple HomeKit integration
- Add Amazon Alexa integration
- Add ability to set schedules based on weather or temperature
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- Add ability to set schedules for different days of the week
- Add ability to set custom times for on/off
- Redesign the app
- Ability to add commands in Shortcuts
- Allow remote turn on using phone network (3G/4G)
- Update the app
- Fix the app
- Add iPad version
- Allow changing timers in the app
EliteCloud
Reported bugs
89 issues- 🐛 Fails to connect
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" errors
- 🐛 Regularly disconnects
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Stops communicating with keypad
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- 🐛 Locked out of app
- 🐛 Does not work with multiple iPhones
- 🐛 Recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" consistently
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Server offline" errors
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server"
- 🐛 "Trouble" light with "Line"
- 🐛 "App keyboard not working"
- 🐛 "Unable to type or scan code correctly"
- 🐛 "Bad alarm" goes off for no reason
- 🐛 Offline alerts when no internet issue
- 🐛 Constant problems, keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Server communication errors"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
- 🐛 Brief blue tick for executed actions, easy to miss
- 🐛 Struggles to connect despite strong wifi
- 🐛 App fails to connect, then works when active, fails again after screen lock
- 🐛 Cannot connect since iOS 17
- 🐛 Reboots needed for keypad beeping
- 🐛 Lost connection
- 🐛 Issues with multiple sites
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" after firmware upgrade
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 99.99% of the time
- 🐛 "Unhealthy Connection" yet works when connected
- 🐛 "Failure to connect" 100% of the time since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Server offline" more times than can count
- 🐛 "Disconnected from server" constantly
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login a lot
- 🐛 UI glitching, wouldn't disarm
- 🐛 "Poor app" regularly crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Cannot connect at all"
- 🐛 "Connection is still connection"
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" continuously logs out
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" for 15 days app could not connect
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Scam company" no support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Basic functionality works, but lacks practical features"
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Locked out of app" after cancelling subscription
- 🐛 "Minor bugs fixed?" recent update shut down app
- 🐛 "Still not working properly" fails to connect
- 🐛 "Disappointed" will not work with two iPhones
- 🐛 "Unreliable" app crashed
- 🐛 "Slow" very slow to connect
- 🐛 "Connection issues" shows unhealthy
- 🐛 "Warning! Scam company" do not support
- 🐛 "Worse than ever" nothing but problems
- 🐛 "Elite cloud" too many issues
- 🐛 "Mr" unstable connection
- 🐛 "Trouble" problems switching off remotely
- 🐛 "Not good!" terrible app
- 🐛 "Fails to Connect" since iOS 17
- 🐛 "Constant problems" keeps disconnecting
- 🐛 "Routinely won't connect"
- 🐛 "Cloud reliability" not reliable
- 🐛 "I can’t open the app"
- 🐛 "Online" drops in and out
- 🐛 "Time wasters" server offline
- 🐛 "Network issues" disconnected from server
- 🐛 "Issues with adding alarm" keyboard not working
- 🐛 "Needs for programming options" trouble light
- 🐛 "Unreliable" makes me re-login
- 🐛 "Poor app" crashing
- 🐛 "Fail to connect often"
- 🐛 "Almost Perfect!" needs panic button
- 🐛 "To many server communication errors"
- 🐛 "Internet Connection" could not connect
- 🐛 "App doesn’t work" incorrect status
- 🐛 "Controls keep disappearing"
- 🐛 "Arming" shows disarmed on app
- 🐛 "Connection issues" logs you out
Requested features
8 requests- 💡 Per-mode notifications
- 💡 Geofencing automation for arming/disarming
- 💡 Sensor history logs
- 💡 Show garage door open/closed status
- 💡 Panic button option in the app
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- 💡 Ability to activate Face ID
- 💡 Schedule arming/disarming times remotely
- 💡 More programming options in the app
In-app purchases
Escea Remote
No in-app purchases
EliteCloud
No in-app purchases
Questions
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