tado° vs Tydom
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.
Tydom
Control your home's heating, lighting, alarms, cameras, and blinds remotely. Personalize your living space with custom scenarios and favorite devices. Your data is stored securely at home, ensuring privacy and control.
- Remote device control
- Customizable favorite devices
- Multi-location management
- Scenario creation
- Device scheduling
- Local and remote access
- Home Cloud data storage
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The connected home is made just for you with Delta Dore's Tydom application TYDOM, an application that really looks like your home Include photos of your interior, and touch the devices to control them wherever you are. TYDOM, the connected home that keeps in step with your lifestyle Heating, Lighting, alarm, cameras, blinds, consumption monitoring... all according to your needs and budget, install the connected objects you want and control them with TYDOM. TYDOM also has many features to make your life easier every day: - Quickly access your most used devices in your favorites - Control several locations from one app (family home, rental properties, holiday home, etc.) - Create and activate scenarios corresponding your lifestyle - Program your devices to suit your everyday moments - Integrated Home Cloud by Delta Dore. Your personal data is stored at home, protected by TYDOM. - Your devices can be controlled remotely and locally, even if you cannot connect to the internet. To operate, the free application requires the installation of a TYDOM 1.0 or 2.0 gateway and Delta Dore wireless products. Go to deltadore.co.uk to find out more about our products or to find a privileged installer. Share your opinions on the TYDOM app by rating and connect with us on Facebook or our YouTube channel to discover our offers and video tutorials. If you require any technical support please contact 020 7660 2919 or email technical.info@deltadore.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: tado° at 4.5 against Tydom's 3.7. tado° also leads on ratings volume (779 vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Tydom's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. tado° sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tydom asks for nothing beyond the download.
tado° holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tado° has 779 ratings behind it against 3, 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 32% of Tydom's.
tado° ships an update weekly, Tydom every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tado° | Tydom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (779 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 31.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 779 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tado° | Delta Dore |
Customer experience
tado°
Tydom
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
Tydom
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Tydom
No in-app purchases









