Comparison

tasmoty vs Esque Agent

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

tasmoty

Discover and manage all devices on your local network, from smart switches to home servers. Group devices by category and control them directly. This app prioritizes privacy with no cloud or account requirements.

Highlights
  • Network device discovery
  • Device categorization
  • Direct device control
  • Web interface access
  • No cloud or account needed
  • Local network scanning
Features
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tasmoty scans your Wi-Fi and shows you what is actually running on it — from a Tasmota switch to a home server to the inverter on your roof. FREE, IN FULL Tasmota devices are free forever: find them, switch them, restart them, open their web interface. Every other category is unlocked with a single €0.99 purchase — no subscription, nothing recurring. WHAT TASMOTY FINDS • Smart switches and plugs: Tasmota, Shelly, Tuya • Lights: Yeelight, WLED, Philips Hue • Home server services: Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Nextcloud, Immich, Paperless, Vaultwarden, Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Grafana, Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Gitea, Syncthing, Node-RED, InfluxDB, Nginx Proxy Manager, Zigbee2MQTT, Audiobookshelf, Stash • Media automation: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Overseerr, Jellyseerr, SABnzbd, qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge • NAS and servers: Synology, QNAP, Unraid, TrueNAS, Proxmox • Solar and energy: Fronius, SMA, SolarEdge, Enphase, Victron, OpenDTU, evcc • Smart home hubs: Homematic, deCONZ, Homebridge, ESPHome, openHAB, ioBroker, FHEM, Loxone, MQTT • Networking: FRITZ!Box, UniFi, OpenWrt • Plus Sonos, AirPlay, Chromecast, Denon/Marantz, Kodi, Navidrome, Scrypted, cameras, printers, 3D printers (OctoPrint) and EV chargers ORGANISED, NOT JUST A LIST OF IPS Everything found is grouped by category — home server, lights, NAS, energy, router and more. Categories collapse, and a filter narrows the list to what you care about right now. When one machine runs a dozen services, each service gets its own card instead of a single IP address. CONTROL IT DIRECTLY • Toggle Tasmota relays, including multi-channel devices • Switch Yeelight bulbs on and off • Restart Tasmota devices • Open any device's web interface with one tap STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no sign-up, no cloud. tasmoty only talks to devices on your local network and keeps the list it finds on your iPhone. No ads, no tracking. The scan always runs in full, so even without the purchase you can see which categories are on your network and how many devices are in each. Note: tasmoty needs local network permission to search at all. Devices have to be reachable on the same Wi-Fi.

About

Esque Agent

Features
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Esque is a pocket-sized project manager for the agentic coder running on your laptop. Plan, prompt, and review your build from anywhere — your phone does the thinking, your desktop agent does the typing. WHAT ESQUE DOES • Plans your project as a 5-step roadmap the moment you describe it. • Writes the next prompt for your coding agent for you. You tap Send. • Pairs to a local Claude Code, OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT), or Aider session on your laptop via a QR code from the open-source esque-bridge CLI. Your prompts run on YOUR subscription, never per-token API rates. • Sync Repository — your agent describes what's in your repo, Esque tunes every future prompt to fit. • Continuity Mode — once synced, prompts become surgical edits with a "commit before changes" guardrail. • Multimodal — attach a screenshot of a bug or a Figma design; Esque tells the agent exactly what to change and where. • Multi-agent — run Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Aider projects side-by-side, each in its own session. WHO IT'S FOR Developers who already have a Claude, ChatGPT (Codex), or Aider setup, and want to drive their coding agent from the train, the couch, a meeting, or anywhere except in front of their laptop. PRO PLAN — $4.99/MONTH • Unlimited project sessions, 500 AI-planned prompts/month, 40 screenshot reviews/month. • Continuity Mode, Auto-Pilot, no ads, priority quota. • Free plan: 30 prompts/month and 3 screenshot reviews, with banner + occasional interstitial ads. Cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. REQUIRES Apple Sign In on first launch. A laptop running esque-bridge (free, npm) to actually drive an agent — install with one terminal command. PRIVACY Prompts go to Google Gemini (planning) and to the laptop bridge URL you paired with (execution). The bridge runs on YOUR machine; we never see what your local agent does. Full policy at the link below. TERMS Esque Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation, and it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://esque-backend-production.up.railway.app/privacy

Screenshots

tasmoty4 screens
Esque Agent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: tasmoty at none against Esque Agent's 1. Esque Agent's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Esque Agent sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. tasmoty asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tasmoty ships an update every 2 months, Esque Agent every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
tasmoty versus Esque Agent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertasmotyEsque Agent
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB69 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDaniel GoletzESQUE TECHNOLOGIES LLC

In-app purchases

None

tasmoty

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Esque Agent

Subscriptions1
  • Esque Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is tasmoty free?
tasmoty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Esque Agent free?
Esque Agent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do tasmoty or Esque Agent have ads?
Neither tasmoty nor Esque Agent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tasmoty or Esque Agent?
tasmoty ships an update every 2 months, and Esque Agent every 3 months. Most recently, tasmoty was updated on October 18, 2026 and Esque Agent on October 21, 2026.

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