Comparison

tado° vs HomeWizard Energy

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

HomeWizard Energy

Monitor and manage your household's energy consumption and production in real-time. This app provides insights into power, gas, and water usage, helping you save money and reduce your environmental impact. It integrates with various smart home devices and energy providers for comprehensive control.

Highlights
  • Live energy consumption and production insights
  • Control power, gas, water, and solar panels
  • Device-specific consumption tracking
  • Cost calculation with custom tariffs
  • Weekly alerts for unusual changes
  • Manage multiple homes and users
  • API integration for smart home automation
Features
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Smart energy consumption made easy! Connect all HomeWizard smart products in one app and take control of your energy. Instantly see your consumption, production and savings. Good for your wallet and the planet. Our app is rated 4.7 stars based on 130,000+ reviews. Smart with (solar) energy. Our users are already doing it. Why HomeWizard? • Live insight into energy: consumption, solar surplus and costs • Everything in one place: power, gas, water and solar panels • Easy to install and a user-friendly app • Works with every energy provider and contract type • Clear overview for every household With the free HomeWizard app, everything is neatly organised. • View consumption per day, week, month and year • Live insight into power, gas and water consumption • See costs by entering your own tariffs (fixed, variable or dynamic) • Weekly alerts for unusual changes • Manage multiple homes and invite family members • Connect with other systems through the local API • Start your washing machine, dryer or dishwasher on solar energy or at low prices via Home Connect (Bosch, Siemens, Neff and Gaggenau) Supported HomeWizard products. • P1 Meter: live consumption and solar surplus, gas per day • Energy Socket: measures consumption per device and switches automatically on time, surplus or lowest price (dynamic contracts) • Plug-In Battery: store your solar energy for later and monitor live charging and discharging • Energy Display: live insight into your energy consumption without opening your phone • kWh Meter: insight into production and big consumers such as EV chargers or heat pumps Extra insight with Energy+ • Connect your solar panels with inverters from SolarEdge, Growatt, SMA, Enphase, Huawei, Solis, GoodWe, APsystems and SolaX • Smart alerts for unusual consumption such as water leakage or high power usage • Extra graphs: standby consumption, 3-phase and overvoltage • Unlimited data storage and export to CSV • Automate with smart tasks: switch devices on solar energy, measured power or the cheapest hours (dynamic tariffs) Start today with smart (solar) energy! ----- Privacy policy: https://www.homewizard.nl/media/Apple/hwenergy_privacy_en.html Terms of Use: https://www.homewizard.nl/media/Apple/hwenergy_eula_en.html

Screenshots

tado°4 screens
HomeWizard Energy3 screens

Verdict

The call

tado° and HomeWizard Energy both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of HomeWizard Energy's written reviews are positive against 42% of tado°'s. HomeWizard Energy also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). tado°'s advantage is ratings volume (778 vs 94). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 HomeWizard Energy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for tado° against 4.6 for HomeWizard Energy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 778 ratings behind it against 94, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of tado°'s written reviews are positive against 80% of HomeWizard Energy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tado° ships an update weekly, HomeWizard Energy every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
tado° versus HomeWizard Energy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertado°HomeWizard Energy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (778 ratings)4.6 (94 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.4% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings778 — better94
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertado°HomeWizard B.V.

Customer experience

tado°

All ratings778 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews792 reviews
Positive42.4%
Neutral13.8%
Negative43.8%

HomeWizard Energy

All ratings94 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.2%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

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

HomeWizard Energy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
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  • 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
1 purchases

HomeWizard Energy

Subscriptions1
  • Energy+$0.991 Month

Questions

Is tado° free?
tado° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HomeWizard Energy free?
HomeWizard Energy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, tado° or HomeWizard Energy?
HomeWizard Energy is rated higher. tado° averages 4.5 out of 5 from 778 ratings, while HomeWizard Energy averages 4.6 from 94 ratings.
Do tado° or HomeWizard Energy have ads?
Neither tado° nor HomeWizard Energy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tado° or HomeWizard Energy?
tado° ships an update weekly, and HomeWizard Energy every 2 weeks. Most recently, tado° was updated on November 8, 2026 and HomeWizard Energy on November 3, 2026.

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