homee (old) vs EnOcean Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
homee (old)
Control smart home devices from various manufacturers and radio technologies. This app turns your iPhone or iPad into a remote for your entire home, allowing you to manage Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, EnOcean, and ZigBee devices.
- Control Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, EnOcean, ZigBee devices
- Expandable with colored cubes
- Connects to local wireless network
- iPhone and iPad remote control
- Monitor your home remotely
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See how homee makes your home smarter ... The homee principle: 1. Product(s) With homee you can control products of different radio technologies and manufacturers. At the moment homee supports Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, EnOcean and ZigBee. 2. homee The white Brain Cube of your homee connects to your local wireless network and lots of Wi-Fi devices. The colored cubes expands homee by Z-Wave, EnOcean and ZigBee radio. 3. App You just need this app to always keep an eye on your home. Your iPhone and iPad becomes a remote for your home.
EnOcean Tool
Configure and retrieve data from compatible EnOcean products using your smartphone's NFC interface. This app supports energy-harvesting wireless sensors and switches, enabling smart building and industrial applications.
- Read basic product information
- Configure EnOcean Equipment Profile
- Optimize energy consumption
- Check energy harvesting performance
- Set encryption level
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With EnOcean Tool you can configure features and read information of selected EnOcean products via the NFC interface of your smartphone. EnOcean modules use the energy harvesting principle, which extracts energy from the environment to supply self-powered wireless sensor networks. The battery-free wireless switches and sensors are completely maintenance-free and flexible in use. These energy harvesting sensors supply the data for the Internet of Things in a resource-saving, energy-autonomous and maintenance-free way – and thus help to use buildings, cities and industrial facilities more intelligently. EnOcean Tool enables you to: - read basic information - configure the EnOcean Equipment Profile - optimize energy consumption and transmission rate - check energy harvesting features and performance e.g. lighting conditions - set encryption level
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EnOcean Tool at 5.0 against homee (old)'s 3.4. EnOcean Tool also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). homee (old)'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EnOcean Tool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: homee (old) has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
homee (old) ships an update every 2 months, EnOcean Tool every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | homee (old) | EnOcean Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | homee GmbH | EnOcean GmbH |
Customer experience
homee (old)
EnOcean Tool
In-app purchases
homee (old)
No in-app purchases
EnOcean Tool
No in-app purchases
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