Garage Door Control vs Garadget
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.
Garadget
Securely monitor and control your garage doors from anywhere using this smart WiFi controller. It offers peace of mind by allowing you to check your garage status remotely and grant access when needed.
- Remote garage door monitoring
- Secure remote control
- Peace of mind
- Easy installation
- Grant access remotely
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Enjoy convenience and peace of mind by securely monitoring and controlling your garage doors from anywhere in the world with Garadget - easy-to-install open source WiFi smart garage door controller. Have you ever... - driven off forgetting your garage open or were unsure about it? - left your garage door open overnight by mistake? - found yourself without any way to enter your house? - needed to let somebody into your house when you were not there or were unable to get the door at that moment? Garadget addresses these and many other cases. To learn more and purchase the Garadget hardware please visit www.garadget.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garadget at none against Garage Door Control's 2. Garadget also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). Garage Door Control's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Garadget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Garage Door Control holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Garage Door Control's written reviews are positive against 50% of Garadget's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garage Door Control | Garadget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (20 ratings) — better | 3.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vitalij Schaefer | Softcomplex, Inc. |
Customer experience
Garage Door Control
Garadget
In-app purchases
Garage Door Control
- Remove Ads$17.99
- Unlock the Watch App$17.99
Garadget
No in-app purchases
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