Nice Mobile Viewer vs Crestron Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nice Mobile Viewer
Control your Nice home entertainment and management system remotely. Manage media, climate, lighting, security, and more from your iPhone or iPad. Access a live demo system to explore its capabilities.
- Home entertainment system control
- Home management system interface
- Remote access via iPhone/iPad
- Control media, climate, lighting
- Manage security and door locks
- View video cameras
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Nice Mobile Viewer for ELAN OS provides an interface to a Nice home entertainment and management system on an iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. ELAN OS integrates and provides control for media, home theater, distributed audio, security, door locks, climate, lighting, shades, video cameras, irrigation, pool/spa and more. Nice Viewer requires a Nice SC100/SC150, SC300/350 controller to be installed by a certified Nice installer. You can access our live demo system through this free App. To learn more about getting an ELAN OS by Nice system please visit - https://niceforyou.com/
Crestron Go
Control your smart home or workplace with a customized, intuitive interface. This app offers dynamic navigation, real-time feedback on various systems, and a sleek look consistent with mobile devices.
- Customizable user interface
- Dynamic navigation (swiping, knobs, sliders)
- Real-time feedback on system status
- Scalable buttons, sliders, and gauges
- Momentum scrolling toolbars and menus
- Support for Apple Super Retina display
- Integration with Crestron VC-4
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Whatever you do with your mobile device, you want the experience to be intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable. With the Crestron Go app, your Crestron dealer can provide you with a thoroughly satisfying and intuitive user interface, customized to meet your exact control needs in the home, workplace, classroom, or for any specialized application or market. Crestron Go leverages spectacular Crestron Smart Graphics™ to enable dynamic navigation that includes swiping, knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists. It includes a full set of scalable buttons, sliders, knobs, and gauges for controlling virtually any function with real-time feedback of audio settings, lighting levels, room temperature, and security system status. With Crestron Go, you get toolbars and menus that scroll with momentum at the flick of a fingertip, giving you easy access to all your controlled devices, functions, and media content. Crestron Go affords a look and feel that’s consistent with the mobile smart device experience, yet uniquely your own. With support for the Apple Super Retina® display, your UI will look its best, while support for the Crestron VC-4 gives you a centralized server based alternative to individual hardware based control systems in every room.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nice Mobile Viewer at none against Crestron Go's 1. Nice Mobile Viewer also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 10%) and ratings volume (339 vs 98). Crestron Go's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Crestron Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nice Mobile Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.3 for Nice Mobile Viewer against 2.2 for Crestron Go. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 339 and 98 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 26% of Nice Mobile Viewer's written reviews are positive against 10% of Crestron Go's.
Nice Mobile Viewer ships an update every 3 months, Crestron Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nice Mobile Viewer | Crestron Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (339 ratings) — better | 2.2 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 339 — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Core Brands LLC | Crestron Electronics, Inc. |
Customer experience
Nice Mobile Viewer
Crestron Go
User reviews
Nice Mobile Viewer
From 339 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and fluid
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
- 🔒 Robust and reliable
- 💡 Flexible and customizable
- 🚀 Responsive and quick to load
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes frequently
- 🔌 Connectivity issues and unreliable connections
- 🤯 Confusing and unintuitive interface
- 🔍 Limited functionality and features
- 🕰️ Slow and outdated
Crestron Go
From 98 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fully customizable system
- 👍 Works well when set up correctly
- 👍 Exceptional app for control systems
- 👍 Very practical and easy to understand
- 👍 Solid performance for controlling switchers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Setup is very difficult
- 🐛 Expensive purchase model ($99 per device)
- 🐛 Poor user interface and intuitiveness
- 🐛 Slow app updates and lack of maintenance
Bugs and requests
Nice Mobile Viewer
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues and password rejections
- Inability to access or control certain features
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
- Inconsistent performance and random crashes
- Syncing and data loss problems
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Better integration with smart home devices
- Improved camera and video functionality
- More customization options for layouts and themes
- Enhanced voice control and automation capabilities
Crestron Go
Reported bugs
27 issues- App crashes on iOS 16.4.1
- Project upload fails from VTProe
- Black screen on rotation or app re-launch
- App freezes upon opening
- App crashes constantly, especially on rotation
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- App hangs and crashes on iOS 16
- Keyboard not working in landscape mode
- Cannot enter credentials on new iPhone
- App breaks with OS 16 upgrade
- Family sharing not working
- WiFi IP address changing on new iPhone
- Volume bar not working
- App not working after transferring to new iPhone
- Settings page not showing completely
- Restore purchase directs to pay again
- App freezes when switching between apps
- Connection failures
- Cannot restore purchase through family share
- App fails to acknowledge prior in-app purchase
- Endless loop when migrating to new iPhone
- iTunes error during purchase recovery
- App stopped working after phone restore
- App doesn't work with new iPhone
- Intermittent issues with new iPhones
- App not working at all
- Setup issues on new iPhone
- App crashes before start
Requested features
9 requests- Fix restore purchase functionality
- Enable family sharing
- Improve app stability on new iOS releases
- Address keyboard issues in landscape mode
- Ensure settings transfer to new devices
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- Provide better consumer support
- Update app more frequently
- Fix volume bar functionality
- Improve app intuitiveness
In-app purchases
Nice Mobile Viewer
No in-app purchases
Crestron Go
- Crestron Go - Default$99.99
Questions
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