“New update makes you watch ads — App now requires you to watch ads before you can access your smart devices. Just had to watch an ad to turn my office light on. Terrible experience”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 519 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★437,466 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
277 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Meet Geeni. Your wish is Geeni's command. Control all Geeni smart home and smart health devices in one easy app, from ANYWHERE in the world. Geeni is easy enough for anyone to use and combines the SIMPLICITY of an on/off switch with PREMIUM features such as: - Easy, powerful control of each device.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 5.0.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.0.1, updated 2026-09-12.
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 11 distinct reviewers (2.1% of 519 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Adds — Since last Up-Date the Genni app is full of Adds! Also is not working properly. I cant se my inside camera since last Up-Date”
“Became Trash — Pop-Up adds has ruined the App. Now after creating groups, rooms, device labels, etc. The app updated and changed everything. Made it more cumbersome rather than more user friendly. Not long before all of my Merkury and…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.0.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.