Avery HA vs CrossDrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Avery HA
Create beautiful smart home dashboards without coding. This app offers a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface to easily manage devices, automations, and scenes for a customized home automation experience.
- Visual drag-and-drop dashboard builder
- Fully customizable smart home layout
- Fast linking of devices, automations, and scenes
- Beautiful themes and layout presets
- Seamless Home Assistant integration
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Avery HA - Clutterless: Build your Home Assistant dashboard without code A no-code, user-friendly interface for creating stunning smart home dashboards. Avery HA - Clutterless is a companion app for Home Assistant users who want a faster and easier way to build and manage their smart home dashboards — without writing YAML or code. Key Features: • Visual, drag-and-drop dashboard builder • Fully customizable layout for your smart home • Fast linking of devices, automations, and scenes • Beautiful themes and layout presets • Seamless integration with your existing Home Assistant setup User Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://averyhome.top/privacypolicy/averyha.html
CrossDrop
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CrossDrop is the ultimate peer-to-peer connection app designed to let you share files, chat, and stream live video between devices on your local network — with absolutely zero internet or cloud dependency. Whether you're sending large documents to a colleague, moving photos to your computer, or streaming your mobile camera to a tablet, CrossDrop makes it instant and secure. Because everything happens locally over your WiFi network, there are no file size limits and speeds are incredibly fast. Key Features: • Instant Auto-Discovery: Devices find each other automatically on your network. No IP addresses to type (unless you want to!). • Cross-Platform Sharing: Send files of any size between phones, tablets, and computers instantly. • Video Streaming: Stream your device's camera live to another screen over WebRTC. • Local Chat: Send instant, secure messages directly between connected devices. • QR Connect: Simply point your camera at a peer's QR code to link up instantly. • Multiple Themes: Customize your experience with 6 beautiful themes (including Dark, Neon, and Coffee). No cables. No internet required. Just launch CrossDrop and connect.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Avery HA at none against CrossDrop's shown. Avery HA also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks). CrossDrop's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price 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. Avery HA sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and CrossDrop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Avery HA ships an update every 10 days, CrossDrop every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Avery HA | CrossDrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan FireFrog Technology Co., Ltd. | Vladislav Alikov |
In-app purchases
Avery HA
- Lifetime License$3.99
- Lifetime License 2$14.99
CrossDrop
- Support the App and remove Ads$2.99









