Home Remote vs IpWay Cloud
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
IpWay Cloud
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IpWay Cloud is the new advanced cloud system that allow you to receive video intercoms calls from Farfisa DUO System. You need just a Farfisa account (username and password from cloud.farfisa.com) and you are able to receive calls from your entrance. You can also check your entrance (monitoring), open the door and enable some home automation function. All your settings are stored in your Farfisa account and you need to remember just your username and password and the videointercom service are ready to use. If you have no device in IpWay Cloud app, ask to your installer to configure properly the gateway in your system and ask him to invite you throw the gateway web configurator: find.farfisa.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: IpWay Cloud at Free against Home Remote's $1.99. Home Remote's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 13 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
IpWay Cloud is free to download; Home Remote costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Home Remote ships an update monthly, IpWay Cloud every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Remote | IpWay Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bouncing Ball Games | ACI srl |
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
IpWay Cloud
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Home Remote
No in-app purchases
IpWay Cloud
No in-app purchases
