Comparison

tado° vs North Pembs Open Studio

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

North Pembs Open Studio

Features
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NPOS is North Pembrokeshire Open Studios. It is a collection of artists and makers who open their studios to the general public in the summer usually for 2 weeks. The app provides the list of the artist and makers who participate in the open studios, and descibles their work with samples of their work shown, their address, contact information and opening hours. There are links to their websites and social media where appropriate and maps to illustrate their location. In addition where they are holding exhbitions and workshops this is shown in the events section.

Screenshots

tado°4 screens
North Pembs Open Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: North Pembs Open Studio at none against tado°'s 12. North Pembs Open Studio also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). tado°'s advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 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. North Pembs Open Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tado° ships an update weekly, North Pembs Open Studio every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
tado° versus North Pembs Open Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertado°North Pembs Open Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (778 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings778 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertado°Alan Davies

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

North Pembs Open Studio

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

North Pembs Open Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tado° free?
tado° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is North Pembs Open Studio free?
North Pembs Open Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do tado° or North Pembs Open Studio have ads?
Neither tado° nor North Pembs Open Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tado° or North Pembs Open Studio?
tado° ships an update weekly, and North Pembs Open Studio every 5 weeks. Most recently, tado° was updated on October 29, 2026 and North Pembs Open Studio on October 29, 2026.

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