Houself vs Netcraze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Houself
Easily manage and automate your smart home devices from anywhere. Control lighting, temperature, and create custom scripts for daily tasks. Enjoy reliable operation with continuous updates.
- Smart device control
- Remote access
- Custom automation scripts
- Real-time monitoring
- Scheduled operations
- Continuous updates
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Welcome to Houself - your reliable assistant in managing a smart home! With our app, you can easily control and automate the operation of all devices in your home - anywhere, at any time. Houself is: Smart Control: Control the lighting, temperature and other aspects of your home in real time using your smartphone or tablet. Custom Scripts: Create scenarios to automate everyday tasks, such as turning on lights on a schedule or setting the temperature before you come home. Constant updating and support: The development team is constantly working to improve the application, adding new features and correcting detected errors, which ensures reliable operation of the application and a pleasant user experience. Manage your home easily and efficiently with Houself!
Netcraze
Manage your home network remotely with detailed usage analysis and content filtering. Create user profiles with custom access schedules and receive real-time network status alerts.
- Remote network control
- Internet usage analysis
- Family member profiles
- Content filtering
- Device disconnection
- Event alerts
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Get full control of your home network from anywhere in the world where you have access to the Internet. - Analyse internet usage by device, user or network. - Create profiles for family members with access schedules and content filtering. - A wide range of public content filtering services are supported. - Disconnect a group of devices from the Internet with a single tap. - Stay up to date on network status with event alerts via push notifications or email.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Netcraze at 4.6 against Houself's 2.0. Netcraze also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (468 vs 1). Houself's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Netcraze holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Netcraze has 468 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 14% of Houself's written reviews are positive against 13% of Netcraze's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Houself ships an update every 9 months, Netcraze every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Houself | Netcraze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (468 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better | 13.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 468 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 227 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DNS Retail, LLC. | Netcraze LLC |
Customer experience
Houself
Netcraze
In-app purchases
Houself
No in-app purchases
Netcraze
No in-app purchases
