Comparison

Loxone vs Karaf

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

Karaf

Features
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Karaf is a smart wine scanner and wine cellar app designed to help you organize, track, and understand your wine collection. Simply scan a wine label with your camera and instantly add bottles to your digital wine cellar. Karaf’s AI-powered recognition captures vintage, grape variety, region, and essential wine details, no manual entry required. Whether you're building a small home collection or managing a growing cellar, Karaf helps you know what you have, where it’s from, and when it’s best enjoyed. Scan Wine Labels Instantly Use Karaf as a powerful wine scanner to identify bottles and build your wine collection in seconds. Organize Your Wine Cellar Manage your wine collection with clarity:  • Track bottle count and vintages  • Filter by red, white, rosé, or sparkling  • Search by region, varietal, or year  • Browse your collection with a clean, visual layout Know When to Drink Your Wine Never open a bottle too early or too late:  • Ready-to-drink indicators  • Peak drinking window guidance  • Aging insights based on wine style and vintage Smart Wine Insights Karaf goes beyond simple wine tracking:  • Automatic tasting notes and wine details  • Alcohol level, acidity, body, tannins, sweetness  • AI-powered food pairing suggestions  • Informational collection value estimates Secure & Synced Your wine cellar stays secure with cloud sync across devices. Karaf is built for wine enthusiasts who want a clean, intelligent wine cellar app combining wine scanning, wine tracking, and cellar management in one beautifully designed experience. The app does not sell alcohol, does not facilitate alcohol purchases, and does not promote excessive consumption. Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Loxone4 screens
Karaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loxone at none against Karaf's 2. Karaf's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Karaf sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Loxone asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Loxone versus Karaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoxoneKaraf
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB54 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLoxone Electronics GmbHVanir Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi

In-app purchases

None

Loxone

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Karaf

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Loxone free?
Loxone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Karaf free?
Karaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Loxone or Karaf have ads?
Neither Loxone nor Karaf shows ads.

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