Home Remote vs InVid View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home Remote
Consolidate control of your smart home devices with a single, feature-rich application. Automate actions with schedules, location triggers, and voice commands. Supports a wide range of popular smart home brands and protocols.
- Unified smart home control
- Schedules and geofencing
- Voice recognition support
- Native support for popular brands
- URL calls and TCP/UDP packets
- Location triggering with beacons
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Tired of all the different apps you need to control your smart home? Are they missing features you’d like to see such as schedules, geofencing or Today Screen access? Then Home Remote is for you. With native support for Milight, LimitlessLED, EasyBulb, LIFX, Belkin WeMo, Indigo, along with URL calls and TCP/UDP packets, there isn’t much that Home Remote can’t control. You can add attributes to any action, such as location triggering with beacons or geofences, schedules, even voice recognition. Home Remote - Great for any smart home with Home Automation. Sunrise and sunset times are provided by http://sunrise-sunset.org
InVid View
Access and manage your InVid surveillance products remotely. View live or recorded video feeds, receive important alerts, and control cloud-connected devices directly from your mobile phone.
- Remote surveillance access
- Live video streaming
- Recorded video playback
- Alarm notifications
- Cloud device management
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VIEW Tech Vision is a mobile surveillance client app. With this app, you can access InVid Tech Vision Series surveillance products through the network and view live or recorded video, receive alarms, and manage cloud devices using your mobile phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: InVid View at Free against Home Remote's $1.99. InVid View also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). Home Remote's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (25 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
InVid View is free to download; Home Remote costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
InVid View holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home Remote has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Home Remote ships an update monthly, InVid View every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and July 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Remote | InVid View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bouncing Ball Games | Innovative Video Technology, Inc |
Customer experience
Home Remote
InVid View
Bugs and requests
Home Remote
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes after iOS updates
- Geofencing stopped working after iOS 12
- MiLight compatibility broken in recent versions
- Brightness settings not working with older bridges
- Preset corruption when editing multiple actions
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- Apple Watch app crashes frequently
- Widget disappears from notification center
- Unable to send data via POST/PUT methods
- External URLs not working on iPhone (works on iPad)
- Light automatically turns off after Apple Watch commands
- Device status not displayed/updated
- Inconsistent command execution
- App unresponsive with too many voice controls
Requested features
20 requests- HomeKit and Siri integration
- Google Home integration
- Toggle buttons with visual status indicators
- Brightness slider in color picker
- Support for newer MiLight bridge versions (v6, iBox 2)
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- Ability to control multiple zones simultaneously
- Buttons accessible from Apple Watch glances
- Feedback confirmation for executed actions
- Cellular data support (3G/4G)
- Logitech Harmony integration
- FHEM support
- Image-based buttons instead of text
- Batch IP address updates
- POST/PUT method support
- French language voice recognition
- Italian language support
- Customizable widget appearance (size, color, shape)
- Action grouping/categorization
- Brightness percentage input for white light
- Smooth color transitions
InVid View
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Home Remote
No in-app purchases
InVid View
No in-app purchases
