ADT Control is a home and business security hub: arm and disarm the system, watch live and recorded camera video, lock doors, control lights, garage doors, and thermostats, set automation scenes, and get alerts, all from one app. People look for alternatives if they switch monitoring providers, use a different security panel, or want a particular smart-home integration. Most of the picks below run on the same family of interactive-security platforms, so the screens and features feel familiar: remote arming, video monitoring, energy management, and automation routines. Some are ADT's own regional or sibling apps; others come from competing providers like Guardian, Resideo, and AT&T. We ranked these alternatives by embedding similarity to ADT Control, then weighed live App Store ratings and review volume so the proven, widely used apps surface above thin listings. A key caveat: these security apps only work with their matching monitored system and hardware, so the right pick depends on whose service you actually have.
How we ranked these 10 alternatives
Embedding similarity
Every app in our database carries a dense vector embedding derived from its title, subtitle, full description, and category metadata. To find apps similar to ADT Control ®, we compute cosine distance against every other app and surface the closest 60 candidates. The similarity score shown on each pick is 1 - distance/2 clamped to [0,1] — 100% means the embedding spaces are identical, 0% means orthogonal.
Re-ranking signals
We then re-rank the candidate set using current App Store rating and review-count signals so a 4.8-star app with 100,000 reviews ranks above a 4.5-star app with 200 reviews even when their embedding distance is similar. Apps that haven't shipped an update in 12 months are filtered out before re-ranking.
Refresh cadence
The similarity cache is recomputed weekly. Live App Store data (rating, review count) is verified every 6 hours.
What we don't do
No paid placements. No affiliate links. No sponsored picks. Read our full methodology.