BSL Share vs openHAB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BSL Share
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BSL Share is a Social branding app that you can use strategically to publish, analyze, advertise and collaborate with all teams of the organization. You convert authentic stories from an employee or other stakeholders into unique social media content that can be shared by everyone within the organization. The platform is also ideally suited for a strategic, top-down social media approach. Whether you want to involve employees, franchise entrepreneurs, resellers or other stakeholders in the use of social media. With BSL Share you create an enormously relevant reach-through personal channels and business channels of all people involved. It works very easily. You present professional messages to your colleagues or other stakeholders. They publish these on their personal or company channels with the easy to use app. Voluntary of course. It is possible that the user wants to edit this message, to make it more personal. That’s also one of the possibilities. But it also works the other way around. With the app, your colleagues or other stakeholders can easily submit self-made texts, photos or videos from a work situation for publication. After editing, you can send it for publication to (parts of) the organization or beyond. Only then the content of the organization becomes truly personal and authentic. You gradually build up an album with authentic content from everyone is who is well-disposed with your organisation. That’s a good addition for your marketing team! Because authentic and personal content is more credible than stock photos and advertisements. And it is even cheaper too. In other words, you never lack of inspiration again! Easily expand the network of your organization, together with colleagues and other stakeholders.
openHAB
This app acts as a companion to an open-source home automation system, allowing users to control and integrate various smart home devices. It offers remote access, enhanced notifications, and a customizable interface for managing your smart home ecosystem.
- Seamless integration with openHAB UI
- Remote control via openHAB Cloud
- Enhanced push notifications
- Apple Watch companion app
- Natively supports iPhone and iPad
- Connects to over 3000 devices
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The official companion application for openHAB - an open source home automation system. The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) project aims at providing a universal integration platform for connecting home automation technologies into a single intelligent system. With more than 3000 things that openHAB can connect to, there’s virtually nothing that can’t be integrated. Its advanced rules based architecture allows complete automation using several popular scripting languages (Java Script, Ruby, Python, Java, RDSL, and more ) as well as visual rule designers using either drag and drop interfaces or simple “If / Then” forms. The new openHAB UI allows users to easily build beautiful interfaces customized to their needs. openHAB is designed to be absolutely vendor-neutral as well as hardware/protocol-agnostic. Key Features: * Integrates seamlessly with your own openHAB UI (Main UI or sitemaps) * Control everything on your openHAB server directly or remotely through the free openHAB Cloud service (https://myopenhab.org) * Enhanced push notifications with media from openHAB Cloud and the openHAB cloud binding * Apple Watch companion app * Natively supports both iPhone and iPad Make openHAB the central integration and control point of your Smart Home. You will find openHAB at http://www.openhab.org/ openHAB has over 450 add-ons, supporting over 3000 things, some of which include: Aiphone, Amazon Dash Button, Amazon Echo Control, AmpliFi, AndroidTV, Anker, Apple HomeKit, Arlo, August, Belkin, Blink, Bosch Smart Home, Bose SoundTouch, Brinks, Chamberlain, Chromecast, Cree, D-Link, Daikin, Denon / Marantz, Dynaudio, Ecobee, Electrolux, Eero, Fibaro, Foscam, Freebox, Gardena, Google Home, Hisense, Honeywell, Honeywell Home, Hue, iRobot, JBL, Jablotron Alarm, Kaleidescape, Kenwood, KNX, Kodi, Kuka, Kwikset, LIFX, LG, Linksys, Logitech, Lutron, Matter, Miele Cloud, Miele@home, Moen, Nanoleaf, Neato, Netatmo, Nest, Nortek, Nuki, Osram, Philips Hue, Pioneer, Plex, Powermax, Rako, Ring, Ring Alarm, Roku, Samsung Smartthings, Sennheiser, Sensibo, Shelly, Siemens, SimpliSafe, Smarthome, Smartmeter, Smartthings, Sonos, Sony, Spotify, Squeezebox, Tado, Technics, Tesla, TP-Link Smart Home, TRÅDFRI, Unifi, Velux, Vera, Verisure, Vizio, Volumio, Wemo, Whirlpool, Wink, Xiaomi, Yamaha Musiccast, Yamaha Receiver, Yeelight, Zigbee, Z-Wave and 400 more popular technologies….
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: openHAB at every 3 weeks against BSL Share's every 3 months. BSL Share's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BSL Share ships an update every 3 months, openHAB every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BSL Share | openHAB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apostle B.V. | openHAB Foundation e.V. |
In-app purchases
BSL Share
No in-app purchases
openHAB
No in-app purchases









