DoorBird vs Crestron Go
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
Crestron Go
This app provides an intuitive and reliable user interface for controlling various aspects of your home, workplace, or classroom. It offers dynamic navigation with interactive elements and real-time feedback for functions like lighting, temperature, and security.
- Intuitive user interface
- Dynamic navigation with swiping
- Interactive controls (knobs, sliders, gauges)
- Real-time feedback on settings
- Customizable control needs
- Support for Super Retina display
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Whatever you do with your mobile device, you want the experience to be intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable. With the Crestron Go app, your Crestron dealer can provide you with a thoroughly satisfying and intuitive user interface, customized to meet your exact control needs in the home, workplace, classroom, or for any specialized application or market. Crestron Go leverages spectacular Crestron Smart Graphics™ to enable dynamic navigation that includes swiping, knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists. It includes a full set of scalable buttons, sliders, knobs, and gauges for controlling virtually any function with real-time feedback of audio settings, lighting levels, room temperature, and security system status. With Crestron Go, you get toolbars and menus that scroll with momentum at the flick of a fingertip, giving you easy access to all your controlled devices, functions, and media content. Crestron Go affords a look and feel that’s consistent with the mobile smart device experience, yet uniquely your own. With support for the Apple Super Retina® display, your UI will look its best, while support for the Crestron VC-4 gives you a centralized server based alternative to individual hardware based control systems in every room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DoorBird at 4.5 against Crestron Go's 2.5. DoorBird also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads 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. Crestron Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DoorBird asks for nothing beyond the download.
DoorBird holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoorBird has 29K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of DoorBird's written reviews are positive against 27% of Crestron Go's.
DoorBird ships an update every 3 weeks, Crestron Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoorBird | Crestron Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (29K ratings) — better | 2.5 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bird Home Automation GmbH | Crestron Electronics, Inc. |
Customer experience
DoorBird
Crestron Go
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
Crestron Go
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DoorBird
No in-app purchases
Crestron Go
- Crestron Go Tablet - Default$99.99









