Meraki vs HATSY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meraki
Manage and monitor your Cisco Meraki networks from your mobile device. Quickly check network status, configure devices, and troubleshoot alerts on the go.
- Network status monitoring
- Device configuration
- Alert troubleshooting
- Switch port configuration
- Mobile network management
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The power of the Cisco Meraki dashboard, in your pocket. Whether you need to quickly check the status of your networks, configure a misconfigured switch port, or check out an alerting device, the Cisco Meraki mobile experience is here to help. Have general feedback, or a feature that you wish you could use on mobile? Send us a wish from Settings -> Make a wish and let us know! We read them all!
HATSY
Manage and control your smart home devices remotely from anywhere. Create custom automation scenarios and invite family members to share control for a truly connected living experience.
- Remote device control
- Intelligent automation scenarios
- Family member invitation
- Device sharing
- Smart life experience
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Using HATSY App, you can easily manage and control smart home devices at home, bringing you a new smart life experience. Highlight functions: 1.Remote control. Can control devices at any time when not at home; 2.Intelligent linkage. You can create device linkage scenarios by yourself and experience true smart life services; 3.Family management. Support family member invitation, device sharing and other functions, so that family members can also experience convenient control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Meraki at fortnightly against HATSY's every 15 months. Meraki also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 1). HATSY's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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.
HATSY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meraki has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Meraki ships an update fortnightly, HATSY every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meraki | HATSY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 201 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meraki | John Deric Desvarro |
Customer experience
Meraki
HATSY
Bugs and requests
Meraki
Reported bugs
17 issues- Button presses don't register
- Icon 🤮
- Organizations Disappeared
- Updates made app unusable
- Incompatible with iPhone XS Max
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- Phones with a finger print reader broken
- No support for SAML login
- Cameras not loading
- Constant crashing
- Login barely works
- Constant re-auth required
- Incompatible with iPhone X, Xs and Xs Max
- Cannot log in
- Does not scale to new phones
- Website does not load menu on mobile
- App does not even work
- App hangs when submitting your two factor code
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Landscape mode
- SAML login support
- Wake on LAN
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- More functionality and close to dashboard
HATSY
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meraki
No in-app purchases
HATSY
No in-app purchases
