tado° vs HomeCom Easy
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.
HomeCom Easy
Control your home's heating, cooling, ventilation, and EV charging remotely. Adjust settings, monitor energy usage, and receive error notifications for a smarter, more comfortable living space.
- Remote device control
- Central heating management
- Hot water scheduling
- Ventilation control
- Air conditioning operation
- EV charger management
- Energy monitoring
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Welcome to HomeCom Easy, an application being carefully developed with the help from our users to provide an amazing experience. With HomeCom Easy you can control your devices remotely in a simple and intuitive way. Supported Products: • Heat Pumps and Boilers compatible with LAN interface and system controller CR400 or CW400/800 • Heat pumps and Boilers compatible with Connect-Key • Integrated Ventilation System: Vent 5001 C • Central Ventilation System: Vent 5000 C, Vent 4000 CC (connection to EasyVent) • Air conditioning units: Climate Series and Climate Class Series with Wi-Fi gateway • Air conditioning units: Large Splits Cassette and Duct types with Wi-Fi gateway • Instantaneous water heater: Therm 5000 Series, Tronic Series • EV Chargers: Bosch Power Charge Main functions are: • Central Heating: operation of room temperature, operating modes, and time program • Hot Water: operation of temperature through operation modes and time program • Ventilation: set fan level manually, operation mode and display air quality values • Air Conditioning: operation of operation modes, room temperature, advanced modes and time program. • Water Heaters: water temperature and custom modes • EV Charger: Start/stop charging, set current limit, manage RF card list • Holiday Mode and Away Mode • Energy monitoring with history values • Display solar power production • Display of sensor monitoring • Display of device status • Display of weather and outside temperature • Error notifications • Manage updates of connectivity device • Display support contacts by country To ensure you have the latest features available, keep your connectivity device always updated! Not all functions are supported by every device. Not every device is available in all countries. Check the documentation of the device or the connectivity device for compatibility with HomeCom Easy. New functions and additional device support will be added regularly. Data information notice in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (‘Data Act’) for related services: https://information-on-product-and-service-related-data.ttprivacy.com/HomeComEasy-MyBuderus-IVTAnywhereII-VulcanoConnect-EasyControl-MyMode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: tado° at 4.5 against HomeCom Easy's 2.1. tado° also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (778 vs 7). HomeCom Easy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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. HomeCom Easy asks for nothing beyond the download.
tado° holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 778 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of tado°'s written reviews are positive against 31% of HomeCom Easy's.
tado° ships an update weekly, HomeCom Easy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tado° | HomeCom Easy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (778 ratings) — better | 2.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.1% of reviews — better | 30.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 778 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| 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 | 123 MB | 340 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tado° | Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH |
Customer experience
tado°
HomeCom Easy
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
HomeCom Easy
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
HomeCom Easy
No in-app purchases









