SkylinkNet vs Bradford White Connect™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkylinkNet
Monitor your home remotely with your smartphone. Arm or disarm your alarm system, control smart home devices, and receive instant notifications for any activity. View live camera feeds and manage up to 100 sensors and controllers.
- Remote alarm arming/disarming
- Push notifications for activity
- Smart home device control
- Live camera surveillance
- Customizable alarm settings
- Low battery alerts
- Event logging
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SkylinkNet allows you to monitor your home with your smartphone. With the built-in alarm features, you can remotely arm, disarm, and monitor various activities with this app. Create a smarthome by adding home control modules to control lights, electrical appliances and other household devices. The Internet Hub sends you push notification when sensor is activated, allowing you to monitor your home remotely. With the surveillance camera, you can see live action of the area you want to monitor. •Wireless Alarm System – Remote Arming / Disarming, Arm Home, Arm Away, Instant Alarm, Sensor Bypass, Remote •Receive Push Notifications anytime a new activity takes place •Customized alarm settings such as alarm duration, entry / exit delay duration etc. •Home Automation with all Skylink Modules, including Wall Switch, Wall Dimmer, Plug-in dimmer, Outdoor Module etc. •Add up to 100 sensors and controllers (lighting or appliances controllers) •Receives low battery alert on all devices thru push notification •Event log stores all recent 100 activities •Add up to 10 cameras for video monitoring •Add outdoor solar siren for additional security, which is completely wireless •Connect to external phone dialer (Telephone Line or Cellular) as a backup solution when Internet fails •No monthly fees and no contract You must have the Skylink Internet Hub and other necessary hardware to achieve these features.
Bradford White Connect™
Transform your water heater into a smart device for remote control and monitoring. Adjust settings, create schedules, and receive error alerts from anywhere. Contractors can also diagnose installations and access helpful tools.
- Remote settings adjustment
- Weekly scheduling
- Error message monitoring
- Remote installation diagnosis
- Sensor data reading
- Sizing and cross-reference tools
- Warranty lookup
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Bradford White Connect™ turns your water heater into a smart water heater and offers remote access*. For homeowners or business owners, Bradford White Connect™ allows you to remotely change settings, set weekly schedules, monitor error messages, and more! For contractors, Bradford White Connect™ allows you to remotely diagnose previous installations and be alerted of error messages (with the owner’s permission). If you are in the room with the water heater, you can also access the water heater’s settings on your mobile device, read sensor data, and log recorders of the visit for later. Additionally, the app contains sizing, cross reference, and warranty tools**. *Compatible with select models **Internet access required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SkylinkNet at 25% against Bradford White Connect™'s 2%. SkylinkNet also leads on rating (2.5 vs 2.2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Bradford White Connect™'s advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). 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.
SkylinkNet holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of SkylinkNet's written reviews are positive against 2% of Bradford White Connect™'s.
SkylinkNet ships an update every 4 months, Bradford White Connect™ every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkylinkNet | Bradford White Connect™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (30 ratings) — better | 2.2 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.3% of reviews — better | 2.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Skylink Group | Bradford White Corporation |
Customer experience
SkylinkNet
Bradford White Connect™
Bugs and requests
SkylinkNet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bradford White Connect™
Reported bugs
61 issues- App fails to connect
- Usage data has long gaps
- Schedule feature fails to work properly
- Time zone synchronization issue
- Does not understand daylight saving time
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- Cannot adjust temperature in a schedule
- Daily usage section is nonsensical
- App requires restarts due to error code 401
- App lets you adjust target temperature, but it snaps back
- Attempting to set mode also appears not to stick
- App doesn't display current water temperature
- Screens for electricity usage frequently show blank or 'no data available'
- TOU schedule makes heater go into weird modes with no visibility
- Barely displays daily usage
- Shows considerable consumption for a day when power was down
- Monthly consumption shows incorrect values
- Periodic disconnects
- No stats
- Cannot tell how much water was used
- Cannot have multiple schedules
- App disconnects every week
- Does not follow TOU schedule
- Cannot set time zone or adjust for daylight savings
- Save button overlaps end time setting
- Remote control does not work
- Usage statistics are mediocre, appear and disappear
- Daily usage section is nonsensical
- Does not show real-time information
- App requires frequent restarts
- Forgets cost per kWh entry
- Adapter box is painfully unreliable
- App won't tell you if adapter has failed
- App pretends water heater setting changed when it didn't
- Sporadic electrical usage monitoring
- Takes 20 attempts to adjust temperature
- Loses power usage data every few months
- Unable to change modes 50 times
- Device randomly disconnects from the internet
- Cannot reconnect without physical access
- Changing heating mode is buggy, reverts to original
- Rarely worked
- Always lose WiFi connection
- Reconnecting adapter is difficult
- Time of Use works some days, not others
- Scheduling in the app isn't great
- Vacation mode hasn't shown days in months
- Settings early apply to the heater
- App hangs, crashes, fails with no explanation
- Registering a device may take multiple tries
- Current mode change doesn't hold
- App frequently fails to load with authorization error
- Schedule feature is completely unusable
- Utility TOU reports 'Empty Field'
- Cannot save a schedule or choose pre-defined TOU schedule
- Heater stuck in hybrid mode
- Heater drops out of heat pump mode randomly
- Yearly usage view only shows one month
- Electricity cost setting resets
- Schedule feature needs an update
- Cannot create multiple schedules to run on the same day
- App struggles to change heating status and temperature
Requested features
28 requests- Display real-time details (tank temperatures, active elements)
- Schedule specific temperatures for different times
- Ability to 'charge' tank overnight for lower rates
- Display current water temperature
- Show usage data older than 24 hours
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- Allow electric scheduling for more than 2 days
- Improve scheduling interface
- Show temperature sensor data
- Local control APIs for integration
- Allow setting temperature in a schedule
- Visualize TOU schedule
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Show amount of hot water remaining
- Allow setting start and end times for vacation mode
- Provide API for Home Assistant integration
- Allow scheduling during night hours
- Allow multiple schedules per day
- Display current temperature
- Display actual water temperature
- Display hot water remaining
- Display TOU schedule visualization
- Fix schedule and TOU bugs
- Allow scheduling during night hours
- Allow multiple schedules per day
- Alerts for mode changes
- Show vacation mode days
- Allow setting start/end times for vacation mode
In-app purchases
SkylinkNet
No in-app purchases
Bradford White Connect™
No in-app purchases
Questions
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