Comparison

OWL Intuition vs Polypipe Smart

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

Head to head
About

OWL Intuition

Remotely monitor and control your home's heating, hot water, and electricity consumption. This app works with OWL Intuition hardware to help you save energy and money.

Highlights
  • Remote heating control
  • Hot water management
  • Electricity consumption monitoring
  • Solar PV generation tracking
  • Energy saving insights
  • Modular system compatibility
Features
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** This app is only for OWL customers who have purchased OWL Intuition monitoring and control products ** For remote Central Heating control use this app with OWL Intuition-c (heating) or OWL Intuition-h (central heating and hot water). Check and adjust your homes heating / hot water from wherever you have Internet access anywhere in the World! Additionally with appropriate hardware you can also view live and historic electricity consumption data. This app requires that you enter your existing OWL Intuition username and password. OWL Intuition is a modular, Internet connected monitoring and control system that can manage all of your main energy usage – electricity supply, solar PV generation, central heating and hot water. Various hardware modules can be added individually to build a total home energy management and control system, helping you to conserve energy, save money and reduce your environmental impact. This unique smart home technology can help you reduce your household energy bills by up to 25%. (subject to operational and environmental conditions and based on positive behavioural change). This version introduces support for the new Intuition-h Central Heating & Hot Water control. The OWL Intuition app now supports the following products: - Intuition-c (central heating control) - Intuition-h (central heating & hot water control) - Intuition-e (Electricity energy-monitoring) - Intuition-pv (Solar Photovoltaic generation and consumption monitoring) - Intuition-lc (Light Commercial – 3 Phase electricity monitoring)

About

Polypipe Smart

Control your heating system and appliances remotely with this app. It offers room-by-room temperature management, personalized automation rules, and the ability to create and store custom heating profiles for different scenarios. Manage multiple locations and switch between them seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Remote heating and appliance control
  • Room-by-room temperature management
  • Personalized automation rules
  • Customizable smart profiles
  • Multi-location support
  • Geolocation-based control
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The Polypipe Smart App is designed to work with the Polypipe Smart, Polypipe Smart RF and Polypipe SmartPlug devices. Together they offer you the most comprehensive way to control your heating system & appliances from anywhere. HomeKit Support on Polypipe Smart With HomeKit, you can setup automation rules and take control of your Polypipe Smart accessories straight from control centre in iOS. Flexible GeoLocation - With No Subscription Our flexible Geo location system puts you in control. You don't need to switch the entire house heating off when you leave, you can decide on a room by room level what happens. Furthermore, each user can can decide the precise actions Polypipe Smart takes when they leave and return. Smart Profiles With Polypipe Smart Profiles, you can create and store multiple Profiles in the SmartHub ready for use later. Our new "Apply to" function lets you quickly assign the profile to any number of zones in your home. Programming your heating system has never been so simple. Multi Location Polypipe Smart supports Multi Location, enabling you to quickly switch between any of your locations.

Screenshots

OWL Intuition4 screens
Polypipe Smart4 screens

Verdict

The call

OWL Intuition and Polypipe Smart both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 18% of OWL Intuition's written reviews are positive against 10% of Polypipe Smart's. OWL Intuition also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 14.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OWL Intuition against 5.0 for Polypipe Smart. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 18% of OWL Intuition's written reviews are positive against 10% of Polypipe Smart's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OWL Intuition ships an update every 4 months, Polypipe Smart every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
OWL Intuition versus Polypipe Smart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOWL IntuitionPolypipe Smart
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews — better10.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.1 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTelepure LimitedPolypipe PLC

Customer experience

OWL Intuition

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral6.1%
Negative75.8%

Polypipe Smart

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative85.0%

Bugs and requests

OWL Intuition

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Owl system constantly disconnects
  • Servers are down / not working
  • App logs itself out and doesn't accept login
  • Heating controls don't work
  • Solar information is never updated
Show 9 more
  • App stops working / offline
  • Historical data gone after update
  • App repeatedly distorted
  • Cannot connect to server
  • Reporting figures don't make sense
  • App continually crashing
  • Heating off command fails to execute
  • App doesn't update usage
  • App is full of bugs

Requested features

16 requests
  • Substantial upgrades and reliability improvements
  • Full screen support
  • More detailed usage information (real-time, peaks, start-up)
  • Improved reliability
  • Support for phone rotation and retina display
Show 11 more
  • More detailed historical data access
  • Graphs for electricity, heating, hot water
  • Ability to adjust timeclocks via app
  • iPad designed app
  • Apple HomeKit integration
  • Geofencing for heating control
  • Alexa/Google Home integration
  • Ability to create separate tenant accounts
  • More detailed graphs with time labels
  • Separate and customizable feed-in costing
  • Overlaying graphs at the same scale

Polypipe Smart

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

OWL Intuition

No in-app purchases

None

Polypipe Smart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OWL Intuition free?
OWL Intuition is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polypipe Smart free?
Polypipe Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OWL Intuition or Polypipe Smart?
OWL Intuition and Polypipe Smart are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do OWL Intuition or Polypipe Smart have ads?
Neither OWL Intuition nor Polypipe Smart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OWL Intuition or Polypipe Smart?
OWL Intuition ships an update every 4 months, and Polypipe Smart every 3 months. Most recently, OWL Intuition was updated on October 6, 2026 and Polypipe Smart on September 23, 2026.

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