Google Home vs Wifi SmartSwitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Home
Manage your smart home devices and stay updated on home activity. Easily control devices with voice commands and view live camera feeds. Organize your home into custom dashboards for quick access.
- Home status overview
- Device grouping into dashboards
- Live camera view and history
- Voice control with Gemini for Home
- Streamlined settings navigation
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The Google Home app helps you get the most out of Gemini for Home. See your home at a glance The Google Home app is designed to show you the status of your home and keep you up to date with what you may have missed. Keep up with what’s important Updated design and streamlined organization help you group your devices into dashboards and easily navigate your settings. Plus you can check in on your home anytime. Scan camera events quickly The camera live view and history interface makes it easier than ever to see what happened. Search or ask your home Control your home in a brand new way. Just say what you want your devices to do with Gemini for Home. * Some products and features may not be available in all regions. Compatible devices required.
Wifi SmartSwitch
Control your home devices like lights, fans, and curtains remotely. Monitor appliance status and adjust settings from anywhere. Prepare your home environment before you arrive.
- Remote device control
- Monitor appliance status
- Control lighting
- Control curtains
- Control fans
- Control sockets
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Wifi SmartSwitch is an application help you to control your home devices such as lighting, curtain, fan, socket, etc… Open the app, you can check the home appliance and light status via this App any time and anywhere . Before you go to home, you also open you AC, open you curtain, light, etc...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Home at 4.6 against Wifi SmartSwitch's 2.2. Google Home also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (1.4M vs 6). Wifi SmartSwitch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (43% vs 15%). On price, 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.
Google Home holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Home has 1.4M ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Google Home's written reviews are positive against 43% of Wifi SmartSwitch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Google Home ships an update weekly, Wifi SmartSwitch every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Home | Wifi SmartSwitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.4M ratings) — better | 2.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4M — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #14 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 630 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LANBON | |
Customer experience
Google Home
Wifi SmartSwitch
Bugs and requests
Google Home
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to remove 'ghost' devices
- Inconsistent connectivity between app and devices
- Unreliable motion detection
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to customize notification settings
- Integration with more smart home devices
- Improved video history browsing
Wifi SmartSwitch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Home
No in-app purchases
Wifi SmartSwitch
No in-app purchases
