Garage Door Control vs SMART GDO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
SMART GDO
Control home appliances remotely and simultaneously with one app. Share device access with family members and easily connect to your smart devices for a smarter living experience.
- Remote appliance control
- Simultaneous multi-device control
- Device sharing with family
- Easy device connection
- Smart living integration
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Smart GDO, smart life, smart living1. Remote control: control home appliances from anywhere2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App,such as camera, door sensor, alarm, lighting, fan, plug,etc.3. Device sharing: One tap to share devices among family members4. Easy connection: easily and quickly connect App to devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SMART GDO at 5.0 against Garage Door Control's 3.9. SMART GDO also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Garage Door Control's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 3). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Garage Door Control sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SMART GDO asks for nothing beyond the download.
SMART GDO 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Garage Door Control's written reviews are positive against 50% of SMART GDO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Garage Door Control ships an update every 2 months, SMART GDO every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garage Door Control | SMART GDO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 197 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vitalij Schaefer | 强 陈 |
Customer experience
Garage Door Control
SMART GDO
In-app purchases
Garage Door Control
- Remove Ads$17.99
- Unlock the Watch App$17.99
SMART GDO
No in-app purchases
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