Comparison

Loxone vs Basalte Home

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

Head to head
About

Loxone

Control your smart building's lighting, music, energy, and security from a single, intuitive app. Customize automations, create scenes, and receive real-time push notifications for alarms and reminders. Manage your home or office remotely with ease.

Highlights
  • Smart building control
  • Lighting management
  • Music control
  • Energy management
  • Security monitoring
  • Customizable automations
  • Real-time push notifications
Features
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With LOXONE, you get all the features for your smart building at a glance in a single app – clearly laid out and easy to use. Control lighting, music, energy management, security and much more anytime, anywhere. Your app. Your style: Make the LOXONE App truly yours. Choose between two Themes – our signature Highlight Theme with the bold green header, or the subtle Neutral Theme with a dark header. With the new Light Mode, the app adapts to your preference: light, dark, or automatically matched to your system settings. Tailored precisely to your needs: Set up the LOXONE App exactly how you want it: set your favourites, create your own automations and design practical scenes for your building. Push notifications: Whether critical alarms such as burglary or practical reminders such as an open window when leaving the house – the LOXONE App notifies you in real time on all devices where you want it. Automatic Designer: Easily create your own logic – no programming knowledge required. Example: "When the sun rises AND it is a weekday, THEN turn on the coffee machine." Important information: The LOXONE App is used in conjunction with a LOXONE Miniserver. We recommend having the LOXONE Miniserver installed and configured and the LOXONE App set up by a certified LOXONE Partner. To ensure external access to the LOXONE App, the relevant settings must be made by a LOXONE Partner.

About

Basalte Home

Effortlessly manage your smart home devices, including lights, shades, thermostats, and security cameras, all from a single, intuitive application. Enjoy synchronized multiroom audio and video, personalized playlists, and custom scenes to create the perfect ambiance.

Highlights
  • Control lights, shades, and thermostat
  • Monitor security cameras
  • Create custom scenes
  • Multiroom audio and video playback
  • Access streaming services
  • Personalized user profiles
Features
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Looking to control your home effortlessly from one intuitive app? Look no further than the Basalte app for Basalte Home! Our app gives you total control over your lights, shades, thermostat, and music. Plus, you can now monitor your security cameras all from the same app. With the added ability to set the perfect mood with our scenes feature, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it! The Basalte app has a vast array of music features that ensure crystal clear quality, so you can enjoy your music in any room, perfectly synchronized. • access your personal music library and create the perfect playlist • enjoy in-app access to major streaming services such as Deezer, TIDAL, and Spotify • search and save your favourite radio stations The app also offers a variety of unique multiroom audio and video features: • play any connected source (music, TV, Apple TV...) in any room • organize rooms by floor or category, like 'guest' and 'kids' • group rooms into a virtual zone to play music in all these rooms with just one touch • create individual user profiles with custom restrictions to music and rooms. Learn more about Basalte Home at www.basalte.be Don't forget to stay in touch by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Screenshots

Loxone4 screens
Basalte Home3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Basalte Home at 100% against Loxone's 49%. Basalte Home also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Loxone's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Basalte Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loxone has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Loxone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basalte Home's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Loxone versus Basalte Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoxoneBasalte Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (31 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoxone Electronics GmbHBasalte

Customer experience

Loxone

All ratings31 ratings
Positive67.7%
Neutral9.7%
Negative22.6%
Written reviews298 reviews
Positive49.3%
Neutral14.1%
Negative36.6%

Basalte Home

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Loxone

No in-app purchases

None

Basalte Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loxone free?
Loxone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Basalte Home free?
Basalte Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Loxone or Basalte Home?
Basalte Home is rated higher. Loxone averages 4.0 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Basalte Home averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Loxone or Basalte Home have ads?
Neither Loxone nor Basalte Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loxone or Basalte Home?
Loxone ships an update every 4 weeks, and Basalte Home every 4 weeks. Most recently, Loxone was updated on October 26, 2026 and Basalte Home on October 24, 2026.

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