tado° vs LOQED Smart Lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
tado°
This app allows you to remotely control your home's heating, air conditioning, and heat pumps. It helps reduce energy consumption and costs through intuitive control and insights into your usage patterns.
- Remote heating and AC control
- Energy usage insights
- Energy-saving tips
- Automated climate control
- Matter and Thread compatibility
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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.
LOQED Smart Lock
Control your smart lock remotely with your phone. Grant access to guests, manage permissions, and ensure your home is secure. Features like code access and backup power provide reliable entry.
- Remote lock and unlock
- Guest access management
- Code access
- Backup power
- Inside/outside detection
- Touch confirmation
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From now on, you simply open your door with a touch. You can keep your Bluetooth phone in your pocket. Easily lock, unlock and manage access for friends, family and guests from anywhere with the Loqed app. Code access and backup power ensure you can enter whatever happens, while inside/outside detection and touch confirmation ensure your door only opens when you want it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LOQED Smart Lock at none against tado°'s 12. LOQED Smart Lock also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). tado°'s advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. tado° sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LOQED Smart Lock asks for nothing beyond the download.
tado° ships an update weekly, LOQED Smart Lock every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tado° | LOQED Smart Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (778 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 43.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 778 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tado° | Loqed Europe |
Customer experience
tado°
LOQED Smart Lock
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
LOQED Smart Lock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
tado°
- 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
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- AI Assist / Auto-Assist7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- AI Assist / Auto-Assist6 Months trial$3.991 Month
- Balance AC - Yearly Plan$29.991 Year
- 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
- Balance for Heat Pumps3 Months trial$44.991 Year
LOQED Smart Lock
No in-app purchases







