Roomba Home vs NestWard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roomba Home
Control your compatible robot vacuum with this app. Schedule cleanings, customize maps, and create personalized routines for a spotless home. It offers real-time insights and smart home integrations for effortless floor care.
- Schedule cleanings
- Customize home maps
- Create cleaning routines
- Real-time cleaning insights
- Voice control integration
- Robot maintenance dashboard
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The Roomba® Home App is compatible with Roomba® 100, 200, 400, 500, 700, 800, and Mini series robots sold after March 2025. For other models, please download the iRobot Home (Classic) app. Get ready to elevate your cleaning game with the intuitive Roomba® Home app! Easily start, stop, or schedule your robot, adjust cleaning settings, customize detailed maps of your home, and create personalized cleaning routines. Dirty rooms are noted based upon previous cleaning jobs to help you clean more effectively without having to think about it. See where and how your robot is cleaning in real-time, proactive product maintenance, and seamless smart home integrations. From setup to daily use, the Roomba® Home app offers intelligent recommendations and a user-friendly experience to keep your home spotless with minimal effort. - Easy, Seamless Setup: Easy-to-follow onboarding guides you from unboxing to your first cleaning run with helpful tips along the way. - Cleaning Routines: Effortlessly create cleaning routines with Routine Builder. Select which rooms to clean, adjust settings, and turn on advanced scrubbing to clean just the way you like. - Schedules: Easily adjust the days and times your robot cleans so it runs when it’s most convenient for you. - Cleaning Settings: Choose to vacuum, mop or both, and adjust settings like suction & mopping liquid levels, number of cleaning passes and turn on advanced scrubbing to clean each room just the way you like. - Maps: Save up to 5 maps, label rooms, add zones and furniture for more targeted cleaning control, and start cleaning specific areas with a click. - Real-Time Insights: See where and how your robot is cleaning and manage it along the way with real-time controls. - Voice Control: Hands full? No need to stop what you're doing. Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant-enabled* compatibility allows you to clean with a simple command. - Robot Maintenance & Health Dashboard: Keep your robot operating smoothly and in tip-top shape with a list of maintenance and troubleshooting suggestions, while the Health Dashboards monitors robot and accessories health. Note: Roomba® 100 series products require a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi® network. Not compatible with 5GHz Wi-Fi® networks. *Works with Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant-enabled devices. Alexa and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com or its affiliates. Google and Google Home are trademarks of Google LLC. Siri is a registered trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions.
NestWard
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Nestward keeps your family close and in sync, privately. Know that everyone got where they were going. See who's where on one map, get an alert the moment someone reaches or leaves school, work or home, and hold SOS if you ever need your family fast. Location and safety • Who's where: everyone on one map, with their place, battery and whether they're driving. Tap anyone to see them. • Arrival alerts: know when someone arrives at or leaves a saved place, on every family member's phone, even with Nestward closed. Choose whose alerts you get, place by place. • Expected arrivals: set "School by 8:30 on weekdays" and Nestward tells you if it hasn't heard they arrived. • Timeline: the places someone went and their drives over the last 30 days, for the people they share with. You always see your own timeline exactly as your family does, and you can turn it off or delete it anytime. • Driving: see who's driving and how fast, and look back on each drive. Shown, never scored. • SOS and crash detection: hold SOS and your family gets your exact location until you're safe. Turn on crash detection and, if a drive ends in a hard impact and you don't answer, your family is told where you are. • Check in, low battery and Location off alerts, On my way with an arrival time, and an Approximate option that shares only your rough area for a while. Everything else a family coordinates • Tasks and chores: assign them or post them for anyone to claim, with points and rewards. • Shared calendar: events, trips and what's due, together. • Bills and budget: household bills, budgets, trip budgets and allowances. Children see a simple view without the numbers. • Split with friends: record who owes whom. No money moves through the app. • Travel and vault: itineraries, packing lists and an encrypted vault for passports and cards that only you can open. • Group chat and a gentle daily check in for the people you look after. Private by design • Your locations, timeline, messages and money live on your devices and in your own iCloud, shared only with the people you choose. • Sharing is always visible, works both ways, and can be paused anytime. Joining a family never shares your location or money on its own. • No ads and no data selling. Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. Nestward is not an emergency service and never calls anyone for you: in an emergency, call your local emergency number.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NestWard at every 4 days against Roomba Home's fortnightly. Roomba Home's advantage is chart position (#100 vs unranked). 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.
Roomba Home ships an update fortnightly, NestWard every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roomba Home | NestWard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (35K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #100 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 264 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iRobot Corporation | Atchutarao Killamsetty |
Bugs and requests
Roomba Home
Reported bugs
1 issue- App only works with products launched after March 2025
Requested features
2 requests- Improved user guidance
- Support page fixes
NestWard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Roomba Home
No in-app purchases
NestWard
No in-app purchases







