Comparison

tado° vs AwoX HomeControl

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

AwoX HomeControl

Control your smart home devices with this application. Create a virtual home, manage favorite devices, and adjust settings like color and brightness. It supports various connected products and allows for grouping and simultaneous control from multiple phones.

Highlights
  • Virtual home creation
  • Device shortcuts
  • RGB color and brightness adjustment
  • White temperature control
  • Manage Eglo connect.z and crosslink.z products
  • Group up to 50 devices
  • Multi-phone control
Features
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AwoX HomeControl allows you to control your connected smart home devices. Build your virtual home and browse your environment with one finger swipe, or see all your favorite devices as shortcuts in the home page. Adjust the RGB color, brightness, set your preferred white temperature and unlock the full potential of your devices through HomeControl. You can manage the Eglo connect.z and crosslink.z products, as well as the main connect.c products (lights, sensor and remote), and many more coming soon. Keep an eye on your products with Home control even if they are connected to a voice assistant. Group your devices and manage up to 50 products at once. Control your devices from several smart phones at the same time. A free account creation is needed, in order : 1. To be able to share your settings across several devices. Install the application on multiple devices without additional configuration or reinstallation. Your setup is still available even if you change your phone. 2. To create a private and secure device network. What about my data? The data collected during the creation of your account (email address) has the sole purpose of providing the best user experience and the best quality of service. AwoX HomeControl is the new Awox Application, providing all benefits from the latest features and updates. If you already have an AwoX Smart CONTROL account, and in case you don’t own legacy devices in the following list : EGLO connect.wifi products, EGLO PLUG, EGLO PLUG PLUS or EGLO USB KEY, AwoX SmartLIGHTs, AromaLIGHTs, Awox SmartLEDs, AwoX StriimLIGHTs, SmartPEBBLE and SmartPLUGs, then you can easily and automatically migrate your account to AwoX HomeControl. Just type in your AwoX Smart CONTROL credentials into AwoX HomeControl and follow the wizard to transfer automatically your products.

Screenshots

tado°4 screens
AwoX HomeControl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AwoX HomeControl at none against tado°'s 12. AwoX HomeControl also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). tado°'s advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 21%) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. tado° sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. AwoX HomeControl asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for tado° against 4.4 for AwoX HomeControl. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 778 ratings behind it against 60, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of tado°'s written reviews are positive against 21% of AwoX HomeControl's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tado° ships an update weekly, AwoX HomeControl monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
tado° versus AwoX HomeControl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertado°AwoX HomeControl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (778 ratings) — better4.4 (60 ratings)
Positive reviews42.6% of reviews — better21.1% of reviews
Number of ratings778 — better60
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertado°AwoX

Customer experience

tado°

All ratings779 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews787 reviews
Positive42.6%
Neutral13.6%
Negative43.8%

AwoX HomeControl

All ratings60 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.0%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive21.1%
Neutral13.2%
Negative65.8%

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

AwoX HomeControl

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

tado°

Subscriptions10
  • 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
None

AwoX HomeControl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tado° free?
tado° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AwoX HomeControl free?
AwoX HomeControl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, tado° or AwoX HomeControl?
tado° is rated higher. tado° averages 4.5 out of 5 from 778 ratings, while AwoX HomeControl averages 4.4 from 60 ratings.
Do tado° or AwoX HomeControl have ads?
Neither tado° nor AwoX HomeControl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tado° or AwoX HomeControl?
tado° ships an update weekly, and AwoX HomeControl monthly. Most recently, tado° was updated on October 26, 2026 and AwoX HomeControl on October 27, 2026.

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