It doesn’t matter if you get the best equipment at an unbelievable price—if the app stinks, you won’t be satisfied with the system.
You want a user-friendly app that doesn’t suffer from glitches every other day. We read reviews on the Apple App Store and the Google Play store to see which brand earned the highest app ratings.
The SimpliSafe app won by a significant margin, with 4.4 stars on Google Play and 4.8 stars on the Apple App Store. The Abode app earned 3.3 stars on Google Play and just 2.5 stars on the Apple App Store.
SimpliSafe also had over 221,000 combined ratings, whereas Abode had less than 750. (No, we didn’t forget any zeros.)