Comparison

tado° vs Blueriiot

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

Head to head
About

tado°

Manage your home's energy consumption and costs from anywhere. This app offers intelligent heating control, smart scheduling, and integration with smart home devices. It also provides insights into energy usage and can optimize EV charging for cost savings.

Highlights
  • Remote heating control
  • Smart scheduling
  • Room Link efficiency
  • Smart home integration
  • AI-powered optimization
  • EV Smart Charging
  • Energy consumption tracking
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Your home's energy at your fingertips. From anywhere, anytime. The tado° app isn't just for smart heating. It makes your whole home ready for intelligent energy management. Connect your tado° energy tariff. Keep your consumption and costs in view at any time. And with Smart Charging, your EV charges automatically when energy is cheapest. All in one app. SMART HEATING CORE FUNCTIONS • Remote control via app: Control your heating system anytime, from anywhere. • Smart Schedule: Easily set up custom heating schedules for each room. • Room Link: The smart integration between room thermostats and boiler makes your heating system more efficient. The boiler only runs when a room needs heat. And every room heats to its own target temperature. • Smart Home Integration: tado° is compatible with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartThings via Matter. • Easy DIY installation: The app provides custom step-by-step installation instructions tailored to your heating system. MORE WITH AI ASSIST Get even more smart features with AI Assist (subscription). Our AI learns your routines and room characteristics to boost comfort and efficiency. You can save up to 55%¹ more energy than with the free app. • Adaptive Heating: Learns the unique heating patterns for each of your rooms, optimising your energy consumption and enhancing your comfort, while you stay in control. • Geofencing: Using your phone’s location, tado° turns off the heating when no one’s home. • Preheat before arrival: With predictive AI, tado° will warm up your home again just before you get back. • Holiday Mode: Turns off your heating when you go on holiday and automatically switches it back on in time for your return. • Open Window Detection: tado° detects open windows without requiring additional sensors, automatically pausing your heating to avoid wasting energy. • Hydronic Balancing: Automatically manages water flow to ensure even heat distribution to all radiators. • Care & Protect: Monitors your heating system, notifies you if unusual heating behaviour is detected and helps you to solve issues with easy step-by-step guides. • Air Comfort: Helps you to achieve a healthier indoor climate, with insights and specific advice, e.g. when you should open the windows, or if a room is at risk of developing mould. • Automated Flow Temperature Optimization: Optimizes the maximum flow temperature of an OpenTherm boiler according to the outside temperature to save energy. • Climate Report: Visualizes the room temperature and heating activity for any of your rooms over time. • Energy IQ: See exactly how much energy you consume – broken down by room and month. Keep track of your costs at any time. ONE APP FOR YOUR HOME ENERGY From your smart thermostat to your energy tariff, heat pump and EV charging: tado° brings it all together. • Dynamic Tariff Integration: Connect your tado° energy tariff (available in Germany and Austria) or any other dynamic energy provider. • Smart Charging: Automatically charge your electric car when electricity prices are at their lowest. Set a ready-by time and tado° handles the rest. Included free with tado° Energy. Available as an in-app subscription for all others. • Balance for heat pumps: Your heat pump automatically runs when electricity is cheapest. tado° Balance maximizes efficiency by monitoring energy prices and outdoor temperatures. Available as an in-app subscription. ¹Up to 55% more savings is based on internal modelling comparing the use of tado° AI Assist vs the free tado° app. Actual savings depend on household characteristics, usage patterns and external factors.

About

Blueriiot

This app monitors your swimming pool or spa water quality 24/7 when paired with a compatible water analyzer. It provides real-time data on temperature, pH, disinfectant levels, and conductivity, offering personalized maintenance advice and alerts for any issues.

Highlights
  • 24/7 water quality monitoring
  • Real-time temperature, pH, disinfectant, and conductivity readings
  • Personalized chemical recommendations
  • Maintenance alerts
  • Dashboard and data trends
  • Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity options
Features
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Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant is the free app dedicated to the treatment of water in swimming pools and spas. The app works together with Blueriiot water analyzers (Blue by Riiot, Blue Connect, Blue Connect Go, Blue Connect Plus, Smart Water Analyzer and Smart Water Analyzer Plus). Associated with a Blueriiot water analyzer, the Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant app helps you to look after your pool 24/7, even when you are away. No more uncertainty about the water in your pool or spa. Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant allows you to enjoy again your pool or spa with total peace of mind. The analyzer measures the temperature, pH, disinfectant level (chlorine, bromine, salt) and conductivity (salinity) of the water. It automatically sends these measurements to the app via the Sigfox network (you can check your pool coverage at https://www.blueconnect.io/en/products/blue-connect/) The Blueriiot analyzer also works in Bluetooth, which means that measurements can be taken via the Bluetooth network by pressing a button in the app, as long as you are close enough to the device. It can also send the measurements via your Wi-Fi network thanks to the Blue Extender bridge (see below). The Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant application gives access to your pool data, and sends an alert in the event of a problem: ● Dashboard: informs you of the status of the analyzer, the water temperature and the quality of your pool water. ● Table of values: informs you accurately of the values ​​measured by the analyzer, trends and ideal values. ● Maintenance guide: advises you on the steps to follow with personalized chemical recommendations for your pool or spa, in order to maintain a clear and healthy water. ● Settings: allows you to configure the settings of your pool or spa and Blueriiot devices, and gives you access to technical assistance and support. Not all features are included in all of our packs. For more information, visit our website blueriiot.com. The app is available in the following languages: English - French - Spanish - Catalan - Dutch - German - Italian - Portuguese - Czech – Polish The Blueriiot range includes other products: ● Blue Check: smart strips. They work together with the free Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant app. Manually encode the result of the strips in the app and take advantage of the info and advice provided. ● Blue Fit50: a hose clamp which allows you to install Blue Connect in the technical room, directly on the piping. ● Blue Extender: a bridge that automatically sends the measurements via your Wi-Fi network. Especially useful if the location of your pool or spa is not covered by the Sigfox network. ● Blueriiot Premium: the advanced version of the Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant app, which includes even more features (more measurements, a complete measurement history, multiple access to a swimming pool, smart alerts, advanced settings, etc.) Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant is compatible with some “Smart Home” apps such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa : - Blueriiot Pool & Spa Assistant is compatible with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice assistants. These smart personal assistants can provide you with information on the settings of your pool water (temperature, pH, redox, conductivity, salinity, etc.) as well as on the required maintenance action. All you need to do is ask. Example: “Ask Blue Connect about the pH of the water”.

Screenshots

tado°4 screens
Blueriiot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: tado° at weekly against Blueriiot's every 5 weeks. tado° also leads on ratings volume (779 vs 116). Blueriiot's advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 42%) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. tado° sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Blueriiot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blueriiot holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 779 ratings behind it against 116, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of tado°'s written reviews are positive against 54% of Blueriiot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tado° ships an update weekly, Blueriiot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
tado° versus Blueriiot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertado°Blueriiot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (779 ratings)4.7 (116 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.4% of reviews54.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings779 — better116
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertado°Fluidra Global Distribution S.L.

Customer experience

tado°

All ratings779 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews793 reviews
Positive42.4%
Neutral13.7%
Negative43.9%

Blueriiot

All ratings116 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive54.2%
Neutral15.3%
Negative30.5%

User reviews

tado°

From 779 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient heating control
  • 🔒 Secure and private
  • 👍 Easy to install and set up
  • 👍 Useful scheduling and automation features
  • 👍 Convenient remote control

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent connectivity issues
  • 🔋 Battery life problems with smart radiator valves
  • 👎 Overly aggressive upselling of subscription features
  • 👎 Unreliable open window detection
  • 👎 Lack of flexibility in temperature control

Blueriiot

From 116 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Precise water measurements
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💰 Reduces chemical costs
  • 🔍 Provides detailed water quality insights
  • 🔧 Helpful maintenance recommendations

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive device and subscription
  • 🔌 Battery life issues
  • 🔍 Inaccurate water readings
  • 🐛 Connectivity problems
  • 🤖 Unreliable automatic measurements

Bugs and requests

tado°

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App frequently crashes or becomes unresponsive
  • Syncing issues between app and hardware
  • Incorrect temperature readings from smart radiator valves
  • Inability to add/assign rooms in the app

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and apply scheduling templates
  • Improved Siri/HomeKit integration
  • Option to disable subscription upselling
  • More granular temperature control
  • Better battery life indicators

Blueriiot

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes after recent updates
  • Bluetooth connectivity issues
  • Sigfox network stopped working
  • Language settings reset unexpectedly
  • Inconsistent water parameter readings

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Alkalinity and Stabilizer measurements
  • Allow manual data entry and editing
  • Provide water chemistry history graphs
  • Integrate with smart home platforms
  • Offer more customization options

In-app purchases

8 purchases

tado°

Subscriptions8
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist$3.991 Month
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist1 Month trial$3.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist6 Months trial$3.991 Month
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist$29.991 Year
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist1 Year trial3 variants$29.991 Year
  • AI Assist / Auto-Assist7 Days trial$29.991 Year
10 purchases

Blueriiot

Subscriptions10
  • 1 Blue Connect monthly7 Days trial$3.491 Month
  • Platinum7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • 1 Blue Connect GO monthly14 Days trial$6.491 Month
Show 7 more
  • 2 Blue Connect monthly7 Days trial$7.491 Month
  • 2 Blue Connect GO monthly14 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • 1 Blue Connect yearly1 Month trial$24.491 Year
  • 4 Blue Connect GO monthly14 Days trial$25.491 Month
  • 5 Blue Connect GO monthly14 Days trial$31.991 Month
  • 1 Blue Connect GO yearly1 Month trial$45.991 Year
  • Platinum1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is tado° free?
tado° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blueriiot free?
Blueriiot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, tado° or Blueriiot?
Blueriiot is rated higher. tado° averages 4.5 out of 5 from 779 ratings, while Blueriiot averages 4.7 from 116 ratings.
Do tado° or Blueriiot have ads?
Neither tado° nor Blueriiot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tado° or Blueriiot?
tado° ships an update weekly, and Blueriiot every 5 weeks. Most recently, tado° was updated on November 10, 2026 and Blueriiot on November 11, 2026.

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