Comparison

tado° vs Pet Central

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

Pet Central

Organize all your pet's essential information, appointments, and tasks in one convenient place. This app helps you manage multiple pets, track medical data, and schedule grooming or vet visits with smart reminders.

Highlights
  • Manage multiple pet profiles
  • Track medical data and registrations
  • Schedule appointments and tasks
  • Smart reminders for events
  • Share pet details with caregivers
  • Calendar view of pet activities
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Pet Central makes it easy to manage your pet’s life. Whether you’re caring for a playful puppy, a curious cat, or a household full of pets, Pet Central keeps you organised and confident that nothing is forgotten. Take the stress out of remembering all their information, and their playdates, grooming appointments and vet visits. With Pet Central, everything is in one place. Key Features - 100% ad-free experience, so you can focus on what matters: your pets. - Manage multiple pets: Keep a separate profile for each pet with basic information, registrations, and medical data - Managed chip registries list (UK only) - Pet Share: invite family members or caregivers to see your pet details in their Pet Central account - Smart task management: Add appointments, training, playtime, or custom tasks and events. Create a shared schedule or separate events for each pet. - Calendar view: See all your pets' upcoming or past tasks and events. - Categorise their activities: Veterinary, groomer, petsitter/kennel and other. - Smart reminders so nothing gets forgotten Why Pet Central? Caring for pets means juggling many small details. Pet Central is designed to make pet care simple and consistent so your pets stay happy and healthy. Whether you’re a first-time pet parent or managing a busy household, our app adapts to your lifestyle. We’d Love Your Feedback Pet Central is built by pet lovers for pet lovers, and we’re always working to make it better. Send us your feedback and suggestions to feedback@fathom.software and we will keep adding the features and improvements that matter most to you.

Screenshots

tado°4 screens
Pet Central4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pet Central at 100% against tado°'s 43%. Pet Central also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 12). tado°'s advantage is ratings volume (778 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pet Central holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 778 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of Pet Central's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tado° ships an update weekly, Pet Central every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
tado° versus Pet Central: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertado°Pet Central
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (778 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings778 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB89 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertado°Fathom Software Limited

Customer experience

tado°

All ratings778 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews778 reviews
Positive43.1%
Neutral13.8%
Negative43.2%

Pet Central

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Pet Central

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

Pet Central

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tado° free?
tado° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pet Central free?
Pet Central is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, tado° or Pet Central?
Pet Central is rated higher. tado° averages 4.5 out of 5 from 778 ratings, while Pet Central averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do tado° or Pet Central have ads?
Neither tado° nor Pet Central shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tado° or Pet Central?
tado° ships an update weekly, and Pet Central every 6 weeks. Most recently, tado° was updated on September 25, 2026 and Pet Central on June 3, 2026.

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