“Permanent Notification — If you don't click through 10-15 advertisements every few days, you're stuck with a red alert in the app. No way to clear the red alert. This company is psychotic.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 537 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.
4.8 ★202,670 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
588 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The ecobee by Generac app connects your home’s comfort, security, and energy systems into one intelligent experience. Powerful on their own and brilliant together, ecobee and Generac products learn your home’s patterns, adapt automatically, and help keep you comfortable, protected, and prepared, wherever you are.
Comfort and energy savings · Control your smart thermostat from anywhere. · Save energy automatically with devices that adapt to your schedule, occupancy, and comfort preferences. · Track energy use and savings with easy-to-read reports. · Get alerts for HVAC maintenance and air filter changes. · Lower utility bills with solar products that use stored energy when utility prices peak, saving you money automatically.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 26.17.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.17.0, updated 2026-09-18.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 537 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Omg ads! — App isn’t well done. Too many ads. Bugs galore!!! Why can’t weather be the standby screen?”
“Too many ads, no customer support contacts — The app is riddled with advertisements and I can’t find any way to contact customer service.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.17.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.