Comparison

Garage Door Control vs garage

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

Head to head
About

Garage Door Control

Control your garage door remotely using your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Connect to compatible Bluetooth relay modules to open and close your garage with ease. Manage multiple doors, customize settings, and even use Siri voice commands.

Highlights
  • Open/close garage door via Bluetooth
  • Control multiple garage doors
  • Assign custom names to modules
  • Set signal duration and relay number
  • Apple Watch control
  • Siri voice commands via Shortcuts
Features
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With this app, you can easily open and close your garage door using your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. To use the app, you will need a garage door with an electric drive as well as a 2-channel relay module with Bluetooth BLE (“2 Channel Relay Module Bluetooth BLE”). This module is inexpensive and available in many online shops. Use an Internet search engine to find it. More information about the app and the relay module can be found on this website: garage-door-app.com The app can be connected to any number of modules. This way, you can equip several garage doors with a relay module each and conveniently control them all through a single app. By assigning an alias, each module can be clearly named and easily identified – for example: “Home garage,” “Workshop garage,” “Left garage door,” “Right garage door,” or “Parents’ garage.” The app also lets you set the signal duration and choose the relay number individually. For a double garage with two doors, both relays can be controlled separately. In this case, two buttons will appear: one for Door 1 and one for Door 2. The default password for these modules is “12345678.” For added security, you can change the password directly in the app. The password must be exactly eight digits long. With this app, you can also open and close your garage directly from the Apple Watch. The connection to the relay module only needs to be set up once via the iPhone. Afterwards, the control works directly from the Apple Watch, even without the iPhone. The Apple Watch app must be unlocked via a one-time in-app purchase. Additionally, you can create a Shortcut to open and close the garage. This allows you to control the door with Siri voice commands or via a shortcut on the Home Screen. The best way is to create two Shortcuts – for example, one named “Open garage” and one named “Close garage.” That way, you can use these exact commands with Siri. To use Shortcuts, you must either remove the ads or unlock the Apple Watch app – both are done with a one-time in-app purchase.

About

garage

This open-source application allows you to control a DIY garage door opener directly from your smartphone. It requires a companion Node.js application running on a Raspberry Pi or similar device. Setup instructions are available on the developer's GitHub pages.

Highlights
  • Control DIY garage openers
  • Smartphone integration
  • Open-source software
  • Requires companion Node.js app
  • GitHub setup guides
Features
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Control a DIY garage opener from your phone. Requires a raspberry pi or similar running the following nodejs app: https://github.com/johntothee/garage. This app and the companion node app are open source. For info and setup see the readme pages at https://github.com/johntothee/garage_ios and https://github.com/johntothee/garage

Screenshots

Garage Door Control4 screens
garage1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: garage at 5.0 against Garage Door Control's 3.9. garage also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Garage Door Control's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1). 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. Garage Door Control sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. garage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

garage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garage Door Control has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garage Door Control ships an update every 2 months, garage daily. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Garage Door Control versus garage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarage Door Controlgarage
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (20 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVitalij SchaeferJohn Erhardt

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Garage Door Control

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$17.99
  • Unlock the Watch App$17.99
None

garage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garage Door Control free?
Garage Door Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is garage free?
garage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Garage Door Control or garage?
garage is rated higher. Garage Door Control averages 3.9 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while garage averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Garage Door Control or garage have ads?
Garage Door Control shows ads; garage does not.
Which is updated more often, Garage Door Control or garage?
Garage Door Control ships an update every 2 months, and garage daily. Most recently, Garage Door Control was updated on October 26, 2026 and garage on October 26, 2026.

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