Home by Building 36 vs Ctrlable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home by Building 36
Control your home with an intelligent system that optimizes energy consumption and maximizes comfort. Connect with professional installers for seamless maintenance and peak system performance.
- Home control
- Energy optimization
- Comfort maximization
- System maintenance
- Professional installer connection
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We provide homeowners a simple and elegant way to control their home. We provide a new level of intelligence to optimize energy consumption and maximize comfort. We connect homeowners and professional installers to better maintain the systems in a home ensuring maximum performance.
Ctrlable
Transform your daily devices into smart, accessible tools. This app provides state-of-the-art technology solutions to create a smart environment controlled from your palm.
- Smart environment creation
- Device transformation
- Accessible control
- State-of-the-art technology
- Palm-of-your-hand access
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We turn your environment into a Smart environment by creating state of the art technology solutions designed to transform your daily use devices into smart devices accesible at the palm of your hands with ctrlable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ctrlable at 5.0 against Home by Building 36's 3.2. Ctrlable also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Home by Building 36's advantage is ratings volume (153 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Ctrlable holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home by Building 36 has 153 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Home by Building 36 ships an update every 3 weeks, Ctrlable every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home by Building 36 | Ctrlable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (153 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 386 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Building 36 Technologies, LLC | Ctrlable |
Customer experience
Home by Building 36
Ctrlable
Bugs and requests
Home by Building 36
Reported bugs
15 issues- iOS app not working with WiFi after December 2025 iOS update
- App won't open or launch
- Login failures on iPhone 16
- Temperature readings showing negative values (e.g., -5.5)
- App loses connection to thermostat
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- Settings don't sync between app and device
- Schedule times shift or change unexpectedly
- App requires reinstallation after each use
- WiFi reconnection extremely difficult
- Push notifications not working
- App crashes on startup
- Temperature changes take minutes to sync
- Changes require multiple re-entries
- App logs out unexpectedly
- Doorbell camera integration failures
Requested features
12 requests- Dark mode option
- Battery life indicator in app
- Ability to rename thermostats
- HomeKit integration support
- Google Home app compatibility
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- Desktop app version
- Reorder/sequence thermostats
- Schedule editing in app instead of website
- Better on/off status indicators
- Background app refresh option
- Save user credentials option
- In-app tutorial videos
Ctrlable
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Home by Building 36
No in-app purchases
Ctrlable
No in-app purchases
Questions
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