Comparison

Loxone vs Shelly Smart Control

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

Shelly Smart Control

Remotely monitor and control smart home devices from anywhere, either through the cloud or your local network. Manage lights, appliances, and sensors, and create custom automation scenes. Supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LAN connectivity for seamless integration.

Highlights
  • Remote device control
  • Local network control
  • Device monitoring
  • Custom scheduling
  • Scene creation
  • Energy consumption monitoring
  • Real-time alerts
Features
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This app offers the possibility to control all Shelly devices remotely. You can monitor and control your devices from anywhere (by using the cloud option) or, if you do not want the Cloud option, you will still be able to monitor and control your devices from within your local network. Shelly devices do not need to be connected to the cloud or to send data there. The Shelly Home Automation portfolio includes a variety of relay switches, sensors, plugs, bulbs, and other controllers, all connected and controlled through your Wi-Fi network. The new Shelly Plus and Shelly Pro lines of products additionally support Bluetooth connectivity for faster device inclusion and communication, and the new Shelly Pro line offers LAN and Wi-Fi usage simultaneously. The entire Shelly portfolio is available at https://shelly.cloud/ Shelly devices are suitable to control lights, garage doors, curtains, window blinds, or other appliances, trigger actions based on certain parameters from sensor devices. Devices provide near real time notification on changes of the parameters they are measuring - energy consumption, temperature other environment values. All Shelly devices have: - Embedded Web server - Wi-Fi control and connectivity - APIs for observation and control A user account is required to access, include, and control Shelly devices through the application. Once Shelly account is registered, you can: - Connect the devices to an existing W-Fi network or use their Access Point mode locally to control other Shelly devices; - Include, manage, and operate as many Shelly devices as you need; - Configure devices and manage individual settings on every device; - Configure custom scheduling for automatic actions; - Create personalized rooms for more convenient organising and control of the devices; - Define custom Groups of devices to control multiple devices with one command within the app; - Build simple and complex scenes by combining Shelly devices to trigger certain actions in your home automation; - Monitor current and past electrical power consumption of the electrical circuit(s) and loads (for Shelly devices equipped with Power-measuring capabilities); - Build complex automation solutions for improved energy and operational efficiency; - Receive real time alerts and notifications based on your preference. Shelly devices are compatible with other widely used both local and cloud-based home automation platforms like Google Home or Alexa.

Screenshots

Loxone4 screens
Shelly Smart Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Loxone at 4.0 against Shelly Smart Control's 3.2. Shelly Smart Control's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

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

Loxone holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 87 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Loxone's written reviews are positive against 47% of Shelly Smart Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loxone ships an update monthly, Shelly Smart Control every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Loxone versus Shelly Smart Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoxoneShelly Smart Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (31 ratings) — better3.2 (87 ratings)
Positive reviews49.3% of reviews — better47.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3187 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB255 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoxone Electronics GmbHSHELLY EUROPE EOOD

Customer experience

Loxone

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

Shelly Smart Control

All ratings87 ratings
Positive51.7%
Neutral9.2%
Negative39.1%
Written reviews146 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral13.0%
Negative39.7%

In-app purchases

None

Loxone

No in-app purchases

None

Shelly Smart Control

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loxone free?
Loxone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shelly Smart Control free?
Shelly Smart Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Loxone or Shelly Smart Control?
Loxone is rated higher. Loxone averages 4.0 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Shelly Smart Control averages 3.2 from 87 ratings.
Do Loxone or Shelly Smart Control have ads?
Neither Loxone nor Shelly Smart Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loxone or Shelly Smart Control?
Loxone ships an update monthly, and Shelly Smart Control every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loxone was updated on October 18, 2026 and Shelly Smart Control on October 17, 2026.

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