Comparison

smart vs dS Smart Home

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

Head to head
About

smart

Monitor and control your home's energy flow in real-time. View reports, optimize solar energy usage with smart actions, and track historical consumption. MID-certified meters allow for billing in prosumer communities.

Highlights
  • Real-time energy flow monitoring
  • Historical energy use reports
  • Solar energy optimization tools
  • Smart If/Then action setup
  • Prosumer community billing
  • MID-certified metering
Features
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The smart-me app lets you monitor and control the energy flows of your apartment, home or building in real-time! The smart-me app uses the data from your smart-me energy metering device, which connects to your local Wifi network to transfer energy data to the cloud. You then find real-time reports and historical energy use on the app or alternatively on the smart-me web portal. Moreover, smart-me provides you with the tools to optimize the usage of self produced solar energy. For example, set up smart If/Then actions to use every ray of sunshine to the max. And since our meters are MID certified, you can even use them to bill energy to the participants of prosumer communities. To purchase the smart-me electricity meters, visit https://web.smart-me.com Customer support Website: https://doc.smart-me.com/home Email: support@smart-me.com

About

dS Smart Home

Control your smart home devices, including lighting, shading, and music, with this intuitive application. Monitor energy consumption, weather, and alarms. Easily manage rooms, create custom scenarios, and adjust settings for a more comfortable living environment.

Highlights
  • Device control (light, shading, music)
  • Energy consumption monitoring
  • Weather and climate readings
  • Custom scenario creation
  • Room and device management
  • SONOS speaker control
  • Heating control
Features
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• Simple and convenient The new dS Smart Home is the perfect app for the perfect smart home. Setting up and operating your digitalSTROM Smart Home has never been easier and more convenient. Whether light, shading or music - the app offers everything you need to make your life easier and more comfortable. • Clear structure The app has four tabs (Favorites, Cockpit, Rooms, Settings) that help you to quickly switch between different features: • Favorites: In the Favorites the most important scenarios of the whole flat are displayed. And you can add your personal favorites. These can be scenarios from the rooms, individual devices or user-defined actions. • Cockpit: the cockpit shows the current energy consumption and that of the last 7 days, weather and climate readings, current alarms and warnings, and user-defined states. In the detailed view of energy consumption, the individual circuits are displayed to the second. The climate data details show the temperature and humidity readings from the past days and weeks.. • Room overview: All rooms (including scenarios, devices and buttons) of your digitalSTROM Smart Home are displayed in the room overview and can be operated directly. • Settings: In the settings you can add further installations (for example your holiday home) and have direct access to the tutorials or the help page. • Custom actions Add custom actions to your favorites and retrieve them at any time. • Create and edit scenarios New scenarios can be easily and conveniently created and existing scenarios can be adjusted or deleted as needed. • Control of the SONOS speakers All SONOS speakers integrated into your digitalSTROM Smart Home can be operated via scenarios or the Play-Pause-function and the volume can be adjusted. • Overview of rooms, scenarios and devices Check the different measured values (e.g. temperature or humidity) and the current state of scenarios and all devices for "light" and "shading" for every room of your digitalSTROM Smart Home. Any changes made are displayed in the app immediately. • Make temporary settings Adjust the current brightness or color of lights and the position of shutters, blinds or awnings at any time easily. With a long click (3D-Touch) on a scenario or device you can open the temporary settings and make adjustments. • Control your heating Check the current temperature in the rooms, choose between Comfort and Eco mode in each room and set the desired temperature for each mode and room. • Assignment of buttons Try out how the various clicks on your light and shading buttons work and adapt the displayed scenarios to suit your requirements. • The home at a glance In the cockpit you will find information on current alarms and weather warnings, the user-defined states as well as the current energy consumption in your home.

Screenshots

smart3 screens
dS Smart Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: smart at 50% against dS Smart Home's 33%. smart also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

smart ships an update every 3 weeks, dS Smart Home every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
smart versus dS Smart Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersmartdS Smart Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.6 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersmart-me AGdigitalSTROM AG

Customer experience

smart

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

dS Smart Home

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

smart

No in-app purchases

None

dS Smart Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is smart free?
smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is dS Smart Home free?
dS Smart Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do smart or dS Smart Home have ads?
Neither smart nor dS Smart Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, smart or dS Smart Home?
smart ships an update every 3 weeks, and dS Smart Home every 2 months. Most recently, smart was updated on September 10, 2026 and dS Smart Home on June 8, 2026.

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