Comparison

SwitchBox App vs What's Better For Me?

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SwitchBox App

Remotely control electrical devices like heating, lighting, and appliances from anywhere. Ideal for smart home automation or simplifying routines for pilots by pre-heating engines or cabins. It uses text and phone calls via the Twilio service to manage connected devices.

Highlights
  • Remote control of electrical devices
  • Smart home automation
  • Control heating, lighting, and AC
  • Pilot-specific features (engine heater)
  • Control via phone calls and text messages
  • Save money on energy
Features
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Remote control any electrical device! The easiest, cheapest and safest way. For General Use: Your new 'Smart Home' with the easy automation from SwitchBox. Remote control your heating, lighting and air conditioning, from anywhere in the world. TIP: Turn On the A/C before you get home, or check to see if you left the lights On and turn them Off. Save Money! For Pilots: No more driving to the airport hours before a flight. Turn on your Engine Heater from your cellphone, and simplify your cold flying routine! TIP: Activate a 2nd device like a Cabin Heater for your sensitive avionics, or a Coffee Maker before you arrive! This app acts as an intermediary to send text and phone communications to your SwitchBox device using the Twilio internet telephone service. The SwitchBox contains electrical switches (max total power 1800W), which activate and Power On/Off connected electrical devices. Phone Calls and Text Messages control these connected devices, and sustain or interrupt continuous power to them. Visit http://switchboxcontrol.com/the-switch-box/ for more information on the SwitchBox. Contact support@switchboxcontrol.com for any questions or support.

About

What's Better For Me?

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Irreplaceable helper for different products with individual ratings will help you to call to memory and choose exactly what you need! Why do you need this app? You know that feeling when you are coming to the shop, looking at the shop-window and see a lot of similar products. And you ask yourself "what shall I buy? What have i bought last time? What was better? How did it look like? And where have i bought it?" And it's exactly when this app can help you! Just take a photo of the product, write a short description and rate it. And next time you come to the shop, just open the app, and it will help you to buy exactly what you need, or not to buy something you didn't like last time :) Possibilities Create different categories or delete them, rename categories, take photo or choose from gallery icon's picture (you can scale it and move by two fingers) If you have records in the category, you can tap to the number of records and it will open a list where you can sort records, move it to another category, delete it. Change a language. Now it's Russian and English. Only for full version: to print your records or to send PDF-file (AirDrop, Dropbox, iCloud, WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram e. t. c.). It’s possible to print one record, one category or everything. To leaf to the left/right pictures, to watch rating and your information By one tap you can change rating. To add new products or to delete products you don't need Quickly take a photo or choose from gallery (and it's easy to scale and move photo by two fingers). Every picture is stored in the screen format (to be compact in memory)

Screenshots

SwitchBox App4 screens
What's Better For Me?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SwitchBox App at none against What's Better For Me?'s 1. SwitchBox App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). What's Better For Me?'s advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 15.0). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. What's Better For Me? sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SwitchBox App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SwitchBox App ships an update every 3 months, What's Better For Me? every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SwitchBox App versus What's Better For Me?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwitchBox AppWhat's Better For Me?
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheviot Hills LLCDmitry Likhtarov

In-app purchases

None

SwitchBox App

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

What's Better For Me?

One-time1
  • Remove Ad's$0.99

Questions

Is SwitchBox App free?
SwitchBox App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What's Better For Me? free?
What's Better For Me? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SwitchBox App or What's Better For Me? have ads?
What's Better For Me? shows ads; SwitchBox App does not.
Which is updated more often, SwitchBox App or What's Better For Me??
SwitchBox App ships an update every 3 months, and What's Better For Me? every 7 months. Most recently, SwitchBox App was updated on October 21, 2026 and What's Better For Me? on October 6, 2026.

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