Alternatives to ADT Control ®
By App Store Tracker Editorial · Updated — live App Store data verified
The short version
ADT Control connects your home security system, cameras, locks, lights, garage doors, and thermostats on one screen to arm, monitor, and automate. The closest sibling is ADT Pulse, ADT's other interactive app with a huge user base. For a different provider on the same platform, Total Connect 2.0 and Guardian Protection offer near-identical control. The list ranks by embedding similarity and live App Store ratings.
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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.
Why it's similar
Both are ADT interactive security apps for arming and disarming, live camera viewing, managing connected devices, and custom scenarios from anywhere. The ADT control-your-home experience is shared.
How it differs
ADT Interactive is built for ADT customers in Argentina, with a Spanish interface and regional service. It currently has zero ratings and serves that market, so it is not aimed at US ADT Control users.
Why it's similar
Both are ADT security apps with a full control panel, full-screen cameras, accessory and thermostat control, history, and automation scenes. The ADT feature set closely mirrors ADT Control.
How it differs
ADT Smart Security is a Spanish-language regional ADT app for managing a home system. It has zero ratings on this store and targets a non-US market, so it is region-specific rather than a direct US swap.
Why it's similar
Both are ADT apps that let you arm the system, view surveillance cameras, and control lights, locks, and thermostats from virtually anywhere. As ADT siblings, the control-and-automate experience is nearly identical.
How it differs
ADT Pulse is ADT's other major platform and the most proven alternative here, with 850,734 ratings and a 4.8 average. Which one you use depends on the platform your ADT system runs on, since they back different equipment generations.
Why it's similar
Both deliver 24/7 interactive security with remote arming, live and recorded video, lights, locks, thermostats, garage doors, and event alerts. The all-in-one security control matches ADT Control almost feature for feature.
How it differs
Guardian Protection requires a Guardian-monitored system rather than ADT service, so it is for that provider's customers. With 12,573 ratings and a 4.74 average it is a well-established, very close functional equivalent on a competing platform.
Why it's similar
Both share the word Control in their name and let you manage settings remotely from a phone. That naming and remote-management angle is the overlap.
How it differs
ATC Control manages a home Wi-Fi network with parental controls and device management for one telephone company's customers, not home security. It is unrelated to alarms, cameras, or ADT, with just 7 ratings, so it is not a real alternative.
Why it's similar
Both let you remotely control and check the status of an intrusion security panel, arm or disarm it, and receive push alerts for events. The remote-security-panel control overlaps with ADT Control.
How it differs
Advisor Advanced Pro works with UTC and UltraSync security panels rather than ADT systems, aimed at specific commercial and residential installs. With a single rating it is barely reviewed and tied to different hardware.
Why it's similar
Both let you arm or disarm your system, view live and recorded video, answer the door, control locks, lights, thermostats, and garage doors, and build automation routines. The interactive-security feature set closely matches ADT Control.
How it differs
Total Connect 2.0 from Resideo (Honeywell Home) requires a Resideo-compatible system, not ADT service. It is heavily used at 280,141 ratings and a 4.63 average, making it one of the strongest like-for-like alternatives on a different platform.
Why it's similar
Both let you remotely control lights, plugs, temperature, and surveillance from your phone, including timers and grouping. The smart-home remote-control angle overlaps with ADT Control.
How it differs
DELTACO Smart Home manages DELTACO smart products rather than a monitored security system, so it lacks professional alarm monitoring and central-station alerts. With only 24 ratings it is a small DIY smart-home app, not a security-service replacement.
Why it's similar
Both offer interactive security, video monitoring, energy management, and home automation with real-time control from a phone or Apple Watch. The monitor-and-control-your-home experience closely matches ADT Control.
How it differs
A3 Smart Home runs on its own provider's monitored systems rather than ADT, with similar remote arming and scenes. At 1,594 ratings it is a solid, established alternative for that platform's customers.
Why it's similar
Both let you arm and disarm your security system, live stream and review recorded video, see a timeline of events, and get intelligent alerts. The security-control core matches ADT Control closely.
How it differs
AT&T Connected Life is AT&T's newer home-security solution requiring its own equipment and service, not ADT's. It shares ADT Control's 4.83 rating but has only 24 reviews, so it is a promising but unproven competitor on a separate platform.
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.
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.
The similarity cache is recomputed weekly. Live App Store data (rating, review count) is verified every 6 hours.
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