SunKare vs BeoLiving
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SunKare
This application allows users to remotely control their heaters using Bluetooth Low Energy technology. It provides a convenient way to manage heating devices directly from a smartphone.
- Bluetooth LE control
- Heater management
- Remote operation
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Sunkare app can control heaters via bluetooth low energy.
BeoLiving
Control your smart home devices, including Bang & Olufsen audio and TV systems, lights, and cameras. Manage home automation devices like Lutron and Philips Hue, and create custom scenes for single-tap control. Remote access is available with the Pro version.
- Control Bang & Olufsen audio/TV
- Manage smart lights and curtains
- View security cameras
- Integrate with Lutron, Nest, Hue
- Create custom scenes
- Remote access (Pro mode)
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A finely crafted app that works as the interface to your smart home, which can control your Bang & Olufsen audio and TV systems, move curtains, dim lights, view cameras and do much more. The BeoLiving app is the companion of the all new BeoLiving Intelligence controller in either Essential or Pro mode. With BeoLiving Intelligence Essential you can integrate your Bang & Olufsen products. An upgrade to BeoLiving Intelligence Pro elevates the BeoLiving app allowing further integration to home automation devices like Lutron, Nest, Ecobee, KNX, Philips Hue, among many others. An extra added feature is remote access, meaning full command outside your home WiFi network. The BeoLiving app allows you to directly setup and control products as well as define user customizable scenes so you can control, with just a single tap, various devices at once. Requirements: - BeoLiving Intelligence controller in the same network as your iOS device. - Bang & Olufsen products connected via the BeoLink network. Please contact your Bang & Olufsen dealer for details on installation and compatibility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BeoLiving at 100% against SunKare's 0%. BeoLiving also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). SunKare's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BeoLiving holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SunKare's written reviews are positive against 100% of BeoLiving's.
SunKare ships an update every 6 months, BeoLiving every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SunKare | BeoLiving |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiangsu Liangdi Technology Co., Ltd. | Khimo |
Customer experience
SunKare
BeoLiving
In-app purchases
SunKare
No in-app purchases
BeoLiving
No in-app purchases
