DoorBird vs Messana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DoorBird
See, hear, and speak to visitors at your door from anywhere in the world. Receive instant notifications for doorbell presses and motion detection, ensuring you never miss a visitor or delivery. Securely unlock doors, garages, or gates remotely.
- Live HDTV video with night vision
- 2-way audio communication
- Worldwide mobile access
- Push notifications for visitors and motion
- Remote door, garage, or gate unlocking
- Visitor history
- Geofencing
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The DoorBird App provides mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations. Using the app, you can see and hear your visitors in real time, speak with them or unlock the door. When visitors press your doorbell, you receive a push notification on your iPhone or iPad and can immediately answer your door – from anywhere in the world. The DoorBird can also send instant alerts when a visitor triggers the built-in motion sensor. No matter if you are at home or not, you will never miss a visitor or a delivery. DoorBird's innovative IP technology was developed in Germany and is continuously improved through regular app and hardware updates. The system works in your local network (LAN) as well as outside of your home network environment without range limitation and securely encrypted over the Internet. DoorBird App Features for IP Video Door Stations: • Live HDTV video (ultra wide-angle camera lens, night vision) • 2-way audio communication • Worldwide mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations • Push notifications on your iPhone or iPad when the doorbell is pushed or the motion sensor is triggered • Configurable motion sensor • Free visitor history • Secure door, garage or gate opener via the app • Different ringtones for push notifications • Geofencing • App is optimized for portrait and landscape format • WiFi and Ethernet (PoE) • Smart Home and NVR compatible
Messana
Manage your home's climate and energy from anywhere. This app offers fine-tuned control over temperature, air quality, and humidity for ultimate comfort. It integrates with complex hydronic systems and smart home platforms for seamless automation.
- Remote climate control
- Customizable schedules
- Apple HomeKit integration
- Indoor air quality monitoring
- System performance graphing
- Energy source management
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Messana - Complete climate control at your fingertips. The Messana App is an innovative energy management and climate control platform for luxury homes that provides an unique user experience for the owners of a Messana mControls hardware platform. The app allows users to control their conditioning system from anywhere in the world and fine-tune their environment to deliver the most comfortable temperatures, air quality, and humidity, to achieve true Thermal Wellbeing™. - Designed for complex hydronic systems integrating radiant floors, radiant ceilings, and fan coils. - Integrates with supplemental VRV/VRF systems (additional gateway required). - Simple and easy to use, equipped with fully customizable schedules that apply to various functionalities. - Integrates with Apple HomeKit to enable Siri voice control as an extra layer of control, creating powerful automation and scenes. - Customizable dashboard for full control of your energy sources, buffer tanks, hydronic systems, domestic hot water tanks, fan coils, and HRV units. - Controls indoor air quality (IAQ) and humidity. - Advanced heating and cooling changeover capability. Can be set to manual, weekly schedule, or automatic with adaptive logic. - Integrated graph tools to evaluate system performance and diagnose potential issues. - Connects to the Messana mConnect platform directly through the home local network or via the internet. This app fits seamlessly into your life to provide perfect climate control at your fingertips, precisely when and where you want it. NOTE: To work properly, the App requires a Messana mControls hardware platform with a user account. Contact us for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Messana at 5.0 against DoorBird's 4.5. DoorBird's advantage is review sentiment (37% vs 0%) and ratings volume (29K vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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.
Messana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoorBird has 29K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of DoorBird's written reviews are positive against 0% of Messana's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DoorBird ships an update every 3 weeks, Messana monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoorBird | Messana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bird Home Automation GmbH | Messana Radiant Cooling |
Customer experience
DoorBird
Messana
Bugs and requests
DoorBird
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Inconsistent connectivity and sync issues
- Unreliable device pairing and setup process
Requested features
4 requests- Siri/Google Assistant integration for voice control
- Improved push notification system with audible alerts
- Local storage option for video recordings
- Simplified app interface and settings
Messana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DoorBird
No in-app purchases
Messana
No in-app purchases









