Home + Security vs Synchrosophe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home + Security
Monitor your home remotely with smart security devices. Receive instant alerts for visitors, break-ins, smoke, and carbon monoxide. Control cameras, doorbells, and alarms from your smartphone for peace of mind.
- Remote doorbell answering
- Intruder alerts with siren
- Person/animal/vehicle detection
- Smoke and CO detection alerts
- Door and window break-in alerts
- Smart indoor camera integration
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Leave your home with peace of mind thanks to the Legrand-Netatmo-Bticino smart security solutions! Receive an alert on your smartphone when a visitor rings your doorbell, if there is a break-in attempt, and if smoke or carbon monoxide are detected. The notifications are smart so that you can act as quickly as possible when necessary, avoiding false alarms. Create an environment adapted to your needs, install the products yourself or ask a professional installer and access all their features from the Home + Security app, with no subscription fees or extra costs. SMART VIDEO DOORBELL Allows you to see who's at your door and answer it from wherever you are. SMART INTERNAL UNIT WITH ALEXA BUILT-IN Receive notification when someone is calling, answer the call and open the gate from wherever you are. SMART OUTDOOR CAMERA WITH SIREN Alerts you and deters intruders with its siren. SMART OUTDOOR CAMERA Lights up and alerts you as soon as a person, animal or vehicle enters your property. SMART INDOOR CAMERA Alerts you as soon as a stranger enters your home. SMART INDOOR SIREN Works with the Smart Indoor Camera - Triggers automatically and scares away intruders. SMART DOOR AND WINDOW SENSORS Works with the Smart Indoor Camera - Fitted on the doors and windows of your choice, they alert you in the event of a break-in attempt. SMART SMOKE ALARM Alerts you if there is a fire, no matter where you are. You can take action even when you're not at home. SMART CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM Alerts you if there is carbon monoxide in your home, no matter where you are. You can take action even when you are away.
Synchrosophe
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The hardest part of a family meal is everyone being at the table at the same time. Synchrosophe is a family meal planner. It finds the meal times that bring the most of you to the table at once, which is the hardest part of any family meal. My daughter and I built it for exactly that. Tell it each person's day (when they wake, sleep, nap, which meals they take, and how long each meal keeps them full) and it finds the meal times that bring the most of you together. Drag a meal to try another time and watch how many can make it. Keep separate rhythms for weekdays, weekends and holidays, and adjust when a meal runs late or someone has to turn in early. Meals come with their little jobs, too. Chores (cook, set the table, clear it) rotate fairly among whoever is present, following each person's preferences, and a balance screen shows who has done what, week by week, with one tap to even out the coming assignments. The plan is truly shared: each member of the family can use the app on their own device, see their own day and duties, note a late wake-up, and propose changes for a planner to approve. For the holidays, you can even share a day type with another family, so joint meals are planned across both households. It's the ·sophe family's way of adding a little wisdom (sophía) to the meals we share. The same app works on iPhone, iPad, Mac (in the menu bar) and Apple Watch, with widgets and complications showing the next family meal, plus optional reminders before each one. You can also ask Siri (or run a Shortcut) to skip a meal, mark yourself away, set your wake-up time, or read out your chores. No account, no ads, no tracking, and your family's rhythm stays on your devices. Syncing and sharing travel through your own iCloud, never through us. (Activity calendars you subscribe to for a member can be fetched on request; nothing about you is ever sent.) One purchase: no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Home + Security at Free against Synchrosophe's $0.99. Synchrosophe's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Home + Security is free to download; Synchrosophe costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home + Security | Synchrosophe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (379 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 379 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Legrand - Netatmo – Bticino | THOMAS MAURICE LEWINER |
Bugs and requests
Home + Security
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes when selecting camera type
- Geolocation-based automation not working
- Dropbox integration not functioning properly
- Shortcuts integration broken after recent update
- Delayed or missing motion notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Add option to disable video call notifications
- Improve notification scheduling and customization
- Implement multi-camera management and filtering
- Allow control of floodlight brightness and automation
- Expose object detection to HomeKit for automations
Synchrosophe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Home + Security
No in-app purchases
Synchrosophe
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Home + Security free?
Is Synchrosophe free?
Do Home + Security or Synchrosophe have ads?
Which is updated more often, Home + Security or Synchrosophe?
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