tado° vs ADT Smart Services
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.
ADT Smart Services
Remotely control and monitor your home security system. Receive instant alerts for security or safety events, and view live video streams from your cameras. Customize scenarios to fit your lifestyle and automate actions like turning on lights.
- Remote alarm control
- Instant security alerts
- Customizable scenarios
- Automated lighting control
- Intelligent motion detection
- Live video streaming
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ADT Smart Services has been developed with state of the art security technologies to ensure that your data privacy is well protected. Which is why ADT can offer you more flexibility, reassurance and complete peace of mind For more information about our ADT Smart Services please visit our website: http://www.adt.co.uk Features include 1. CONTROL 1.1 Security Forgot to set the alarm? Do you worry if the last person to leave remembered to activate the security system? Experience the convenience of being able to remotely set or unset your alarm system from anywhere via your iOS smart phone or tablet. 1.2 Alert Notifications Do you ever worry that something might happen at your home/business while you’re away? ADT will notify you with a Security or Safety alert, when the status of your device changes. For example, when the alarm is activated or the door/window contact is triggered or the smoke detector goes off so you are immediately alerted. 1.3 Scenario’s Would you like a Security System that you can customise to suit your lifestyle and specific security needs? ADT Smart Services provides secure access so you can monitor and manage your security to work for you and your lifestyle needs. i.e. - Define who will receive alerts - Advise you who has entered the front door such as advising elderly parent is home, employee has arrived at your business. - Set up recurring events i.e. set the alarm at the same day/time every week, or set up the housekeeper as a user on their smart phone. 2. AUTOMATE Have to work late again? No problem, use your iOS smart phone or tablet to turn on the lights right before you arrive home or set them to come on automatically to simulate someones presence, even when your property is empty. 3. INTELLIGENT MOTION DETECTION Do you worry about activity in and around your home or business? Now you can be immediately notified to intelligent activity when someone steps onto the perimeter, or within your home or business, with virtually no false alarms and unwanted alert notifications like other Systems. The event is captured on camera and automatically saved to the Cloud. 4. VIEW Do you worry about activity in and around your premises? Use your camera’s to help you stay connected with live video streaming, so you can see what is happening outside or inside your premises. Compatible with Apple devices. IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS APP WILL ONLY BE ACTIVATED UPON PURCHASE AND AFTER INSTALLATION BY AN ADT ENGINEER
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: tado° at 4.5 against ADT Smart Services's 4.0. tado° also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 13%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). ADT Smart Services's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ADT Smart Services asks for nothing beyond the download.
tado° holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 779 ratings behind it against 21, 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 13% of ADT Smart Services's.
tado° ships an update weekly, ADT Smart Services every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tado° | ADT Smart Services |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (779 ratings) — better | 4.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.7% of reviews — better | 13.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 779 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 390 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tado° | ADT Fire and Security PLC |
Customer experience
tado°
ADT Smart Services
User reviews
tado°
From 779 App Store ratingsWhat 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
ADT Smart Services
From 21 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly interface (when working properly)
- 📱 Remote access to arm/disarm system
- 📹 Camera and doorbell integration
- 🔔 Real-time notifications and alerts
- ⚙️ Automation features like geofencing and schedules
Room to improve
- 🐌 Extremely slow app performance and loading times
- 📹 Doorbell video loads too slowly to catch visitors
- 🔌 Frequent connection and synchronization issues
- 🐛 App crashes and freezes regularly
- 🔐 Unreliable authentication and login problems
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
ADT Smart Services
Reported bugs
18 issues- App takes 5+ minutes to arm/disarm alarm
- Doorbell video fails to load before visitor leaves
- Connection timeouts and frequent disconnections
- Verification codes not arriving for login
- New user codes not syncing with keypad
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- Widget settings not saving (doorbell sensitivity reverts)
- App unable to find new router after broadband change
- Force bypass option selected automatically every time
- Saved video clips inaccessible via app (works on web browser)
- Live video feed connection fails while alerts still work
- App crashes when attempting to set alarm
- Inconsistent sensor open/closed status display
- Rules and schedules not saving properly
- App constantly logs out users
- False motion detection from rain and animals despite settings
- Alarm doesn't trigger despite being armed
- App doesn't update status after panel changes
- Notifications not sent for alarm triggers
Requested features
15 requests- iOS 18 widget support restoration
- Bi-weekly and monthly access scheduling options
- Smaller time increment options (less than 30 minutes)
- Better notification management and filtering
- Apple Home and Matter compatibility
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- CarPlay integration
- Improved multi-user access with role-based permissions
- Time-based automation rules and daily routines
- IFTTT and Shortcuts integration
- Ability to rename sensors and customize device names
- Video call-style doorbell notifications instead of notification stream
- Facial recognition implementation
- Remote system reset capability for power outages
- Improved color night vision for cameras
- Tablet device support
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
ADT Smart Services
No in-app purchases








