Wiser 2 vs SAL PIXIE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wiser 2
Control your C-Bus home automation system remotely from your iPhone or iPad. Manage lighting, security, climate, entertainment, and energy monitoring with a consistent user experience. Set up favorite widgets for quick access to frequently used functions.
- Remote C-Bus home control
- Lighting, security, climate management
- Entertainment and energy monitoring
- Favorites home page
- Multiple home controller support
- Consistent user experience
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C-Bus® Wiser™ Home control products from Schneider Electric enable the control over your C-Bus home automation ecosystem from any connected location. The Wiser 2 Application makes connecting to and controlling of your home easy, from inside or away from your home you can have control over all C-Bus connected devices, providing a consistent user experience from iPhone or iPad. After connecting your mobile device to your home using the connection details of your Wiser home controller, there is nothing more to configure. You will have available at your fingertips, everything your C-Bus Wiser Home Control has access to. This may include lighting, security, climate, entertainment as well as energy and camera monitoring. You can have multiple devices connected to your Wiser Home Control simultaneously with a consistent user experience synchronized across all devices. The Wiser 2 Mobile Application as of Version 3.7.3 supports Wiser MK II and C-Bus Home Controller. The Wiser 2 Application is supporting a Favorites home page where you can add your favorite widgets for quick access to common functions when inside or away from the home. Wiser 2 C-Bus® Home Control supports connecting to multiple home controllers. Manage and control multiple homes from within the single application. Add edit and delete controllers from within the application. Switch home by selecting the Switch Controller and maintain separate favourites pages for each Controller.
SAL PIXIE
Control your smart home devices with this app. It allows you to configure and manage lighting, fans, appliances, and more. Create custom scenes and schedules for automated home control.
- Control smart home devices
- Configure lighting, fans, appliances
- Create custom scenes
- Set up schedules
- Manage individual devices and groups
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Make your home smart simply with PIXIE. The SAL PIXIE App is used to control the PIXIE smart home range of devices from SAL National Pty Ltd. The SAL PIXIE app delivers an intuitive in-home control experience, using the Bluetooth on your mobile device to connect to your mesh of PIXIE devices installed. The SAL PIXIE App puts the home owner in charge of their smart home with the ability to configure and control PIXIE enabled lighting, fans, appliances, garage doors, automatic gates, motorised blinds and more. The SAL PIXIE App enables control of individual PIXIE devices and groups of devices, provides the ability to create and recall scenes and run schedules at any time of the day or night according to the user’s needs. Users can start small with a few rooms and expand the smart home experience when budgets allow, or go all-in day one by installing PIXIE smart home devices to control compatible components in their home and use the SAL PIXIE app for setup and control of the PIXIE smart home system. Simple. Smart. Home. PIXIE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SAL PIXIE at 59% against Wiser 2's 3%. SAL PIXIE also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). Wiser 2's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SAL PIXIE holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of Wiser 2's written reviews are positive against 59% of SAL PIXIE's.
Wiser 2 ships an update every 4 months, SAL PIXIE every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wiser 2 | SAL PIXIE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (3 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 2.8% of reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Schneider Electric SA | SAL Nationwide Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Wiser 2
SAL PIXIE
In-app purchases
Wiser 2
No in-app purchases
SAL PIXIE
No in-app purchases









