Comparison

Garage Door Control vs 格物 Whence

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

格物 Whence

Features
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Whence lays open where the devices around you actually come from — what you are connected to, and what you are holding. ■ Looking outward: what your Wi-Fi actually is • Reads the BSSID of the access point you're on and resolves the manufacturer from the IEEE registry • When the BSSID is a locally administered address, it says so — such addresses do not identify a real manufacturer. The three possible causes are shown side by side rather than picking one for you. ■ Looking inward: what this iPhone is made of • Core split, native resolution and refresh rate, per-lens camera parameters, sensors and radios, storage and power — all measured directly • Model specifications from a bundled catalog, cross-checked against what was measured, with the result shown either way ■ Every value is labeled with where it came from Measured, catalog, inferred, unavailable — four distinct provenance levels. Anything inferred is visually de-emphasized and carries an explanation. You can see at a glance what was actually read. ■ We say plainly what cannot be read Battery health, cycle count, and the real suppliers of the display and battery are not available to third-party apps on iOS. This app tells you it cannot read them, rather than leaving a blank or filling in an estimate. Any app claiming to detect these directly on an iPhone is not telling you the truth. ■ Privacy • Makes no network requests at all — not merely no external ones. All manufacturer and model data ships inside the app. • Collects nothing, uploads nothing. • Declares exactly one permission: location. It is used solely to satisfy iOS's precondition for reading Wi-Fi information — no coordinates are requested, stored, or transmitted.

Screenshots

Garage Door Control4 screens
格物 Whence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 格物 Whence at none against Garage Door Control's 2. 格物 Whence also leads on ads (none vs shown). Garage Door Control's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. 格物 Whence asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Garage Door Control versus 格物 Whence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarage Door Control格物 Whence
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVitalij Schaefer立超 徐

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Garage Door Control

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

格物 Whence

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garage Door Control free?
Garage Door Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 格物 Whence free?
格物 Whence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garage Door Control or 格物 Whence have ads?
Garage Door Control shows ads; 格物 Whence does not.

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