IFTTT - Automate work and home

Name: IFTTT - Automate work and home
Rating: 4.62634 (56461 reviews)

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IFTTT - Automate work and home

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User Reviews for IFTTT - Automate work and home

Used to be great

When I first joined IFTTT it was free and a great way to connect disparate services and devices, it helped bridge the different unnecessarily separated ecosystems of devices. When they forced me into paying or losing my applets, I complied, and I would still give a high rating except that there is an unreasonable limit keeping me from having more than one account per service, in this case the limit is due to the Abode Alarm system unable to accommodate more than one zone, meaning you need two Abode accounts with different email addresses in order to have two zones setup. Because of this I need to setup my Abode service in IFTTT with two accounts, but I cannot do that because of an artificial limit in IFTTT preventing each service from having more than one account. Having two IFTTT accounts which is the suggested solution won’t work because I need applets between Abode Accounts and interactions with already added other services. Thanks for the extra limits and forced subscription. Until I found this out, I would have given 5 stars, now you get 1. Fix it and I’ll update this review.

Batgirl69, Jul 11, 2021

Free Version Seemingly Has No Use

I have loved playing around w the native shortcuts app but the automation options are very limited and after looking around this app seemed like the most popular choice for folks interested in more complex and varied automations w far more integrations. I’ve had the free version sitting in my app library for about a month now and cannot use it at all. I understood that the free version had it’s limitations including a limited number of free applets, but it says I have a limit of zero. I can’t use or create any. It’s very frustrating. Before I downloaded it I was betting I would pay for the pro, but the fact I’m unable to even test the functionality at all with the free version puts me off paying for pro. I figured that a zero applet limit was a bug, especially since the descriptions of the plans, along with the FAQ, explicitly state that even with the free version you can use an (unspecified) limited amount of applets. I also considered that it was possible I was doing something wrong. So, I reported my issue (which was also a difficult process through their webpage but it seems that if you’re pro it’s much easier). It’s been a month and I haven’t heard back at all, and I’ve also seen this bug mentioned on the Reddit. I’ll probably just try the trial for pro to actually see what I can do with the app, but the lack of support really has soured my first impressions.

Dani2497, Apr 26, 2023

To limiting to our trol an average home with full SmartHome implementations

This app had great potential however I am eliminating it entirely from my home control apps. You cannot count on it to control a home with over 250 devices including g Alexa, SmartThings, Somfy, Hue and many other devices. You will hit the max limits long before you could ever benefit from this app. Just opening and closing our 16 shades once a day puts you over limit not to mention doors motion sensors lighting etc Notofications just quit when you hit limit thus you cannot depend on it for smoke/co2 messages etc. The SmartHome industry in general is in a sad state of affairs because they have made it too expensive to manage even a small home and hit max limits forcing you to use multiple workarounds to get anything done. This will put them out of businesssoo. Instead of them making minor but powerful improvements that would make their products useful and make them able to handle the needs of their customers.

db2ace2, Aug 31, 2020

Pretty Great (for notifications)

I got this app to basically send notifications to myself throughout the day ! It does have a lot of other features that ‘connect’ things together, but keep in mind that’s not what I use this app for! All I really use it for is to send myself reminders/notifications, and it works great for that. I get notifications when it’s about to rain or snow, when the UV index is above a certain amount, and even when the sunset is about to occur! I also get daily quote notifications, hourly “drink more water!” notifications, hourly “smile!” notifications, a happy birthday notification, etc. The possibilities are endless! Every night before bed, I also get the weather forecast for tomorrow sent to my phone! Also, I made/programmed most of these notifications myself! It’s literally so easy to do! All in all, It’s great if you want to be reminded of things, but I can’t speak on how well it connects with other programs. Thanks so much for my notifications!

FancyCatherine, Jul 08, 2020

About the update

I agree with some of the reviews that the 3 applet limit is a bit low. I’d raise it to 10 and any more after that you need to pay. Some of the other reviews really sound very entitled. You used a service for free for many years which has worked well - it’s not greed if the developers want to make some money from it. They need to eat and having a subscription is them saying they can’t afford to continue this way. It’s either they charge or shut down. They even sent an email to give you a heads up. It’s an optional $10 a month whereas Zapier is $20 and Microsoft Flow is $15. I’ve yet to run across a cheaper option, unless you want to build your own and parse apis yourself. Maybe it’s because I’m a developer myself but people act like programming is simple and companies don’t deserve to make a profit. The whole point of a product is to make money. Get over yourself. Everything can’t be free, if you like a service pay for it.

Goatzz, Sep 13, 2020

Latest version is extremely frustrating and buggy

You cannot browse all your Applets anymore in one place. You cannot enable or disable applet notifications using the iPhone app anymore and the help article showing a screenshot of where that control should be is not there, at least for the applet I tried to disable notifications on. Tapping on a notification does not lead you to a page that is at all useful. The tapped notification and then disappears and it is nearly impossible to find the applet associated with the notification unless you remember which services it uses. Submitting a problem is an exasperating experience that tries your patience. You end up in an endless loop. All in all, what should take a handful of seconds takes over a half hour and ultimately results in not being able to accomplish what it is you tried to set out to do, Even though all you’re trying to do is turn off a notification of a specific applet. This latest version of IFTTT is much worse than previous versions.

hepcat72-1, Oct 08, 2019

Good app but not necessary

' ' I started using IFTTT years ago and when it used to be either free or with lower fee. There were some issues here and there but overall I thought it was a great app that can automate and simplify almost anything. I’ve created bunch of buttons that I integrated into system share menu to use them so there wasn’t any need to open the actual app. I don’t know when but for a while I noticed the buttons didn’t work but I’ve been overlooking them as incidentals until a week ago when I took time to manage installed apps on my iPad and realized IFTTT changed the company and their pricing. I must have not received any notices that might have been filtered out by my Apple Mail app and was surprised to find that now I can’t no longer use any buttons nor the app (free account allows limited # of applets but I couldn’t even get 1 to work) unless I subscribe. I understand no good things come free so don’t have a problem with their pricing but I will no longer use IFTTT since it’s not really necessary. IFTTT is convenient but technically it’s doing what I can do with my iPad anyway. So I decided to uninstall the app and remove buttons (hopefully they will be removed or marked after uninstalling the app otherwise I’d go through each buttons which could be annoying). So this is my review before I uninstall IFTTT. It’s a good automation tool that can save time sometimes but it’s not essential.

NYWonderBoy, Jul 09, 2023

Support issues

I had been a user for almost a couple of years and was successfully using the app with accessing my Blink cameras. Unfortunately I needed to change my password within IFTTT and since then I am unable to access the account. Speaking with the Blink support folks they said that it is an issue with their servers and they have not yet been able to resolve the issue. This has gone on for over a week and its very disappointing. If there was ever a reason for not subscribing to an app this is it.Just read some of the hard to fine facts about this utility. If you are using a trigger to start something it will now take up to an hour for the trigger to occur but if you pay it will be there in around 5 minutes. Another strike against the free program. I guess they are ashamed to publish these changes to users after this last update. I guess they figured that waiting an hour was not a big deal. Well for users if Blink beware that if you are using the free version to arm your alarm system it won’t work for an hour. Surprise no wonder why when I leave the house for a short trip the alarms are not armed. Boy this change would have been nice to know. Thanks for the notification for your updates.

Papagoose23, Dec 15, 2021

I had to re-write a review based on just the pictures of the app

One of the preview images is of it saying if I’m in a meeting pause rumba! How lame is that pause my vacuum at home my robotic vacuum if I’m in a meeting. I don’t even know where to start with that if you don’t understand why that’s so stupid then I can’t help you. And someone on here saying it’s so nice today I’ll send you reminders throughout the day your phone will do that your phone will do that without this program you push your button you push the home button Siri pops up you say remind me every day at this time blah blah blah are you say let me know if it’s going to rain blah blah blah they’ll do it without this program. And as far as if it works with things that’s a joke every time I’ve tried it actually doesn’t work and the only things I can do or pathetic stupid things like you can have Alexa do some you ask Alexa and you can have your phones Bluetooth turned on or off or you can have the wallpaper change oh my God the wallpaper background can be changed if you say something to one of your home smart devices bite me whoever makes this program your prophetic it disgusts me

Robert951King, Jul 19, 2021

It was good while it lasted!

I have been using ifttt to link many of my smart home devices for about a year now and it has worked great, however with the introduction with ifttt pro, I don’t believe it is right for ifttt to restrict users to a certain limit that they can create when we were allowed create unlimited applets before. I think the pro plan should have only been for the new features that they introduced instead of forcing people to upgrade to pro if they want to create more than than three of their applets. Also, ifttt says that their free users will have unlimited access to already published applets, however no one uses these published applets because they do not do what we want them to do. Also, the lack of communication from iftt was outrageous as they had informed their users after they implemented all of these new changes and did not give us much time to switch to other solutions. I will looking towards switching all of my to smart home devices to an alternative solution like home assistant which will run locally on my network and highly recommend other people who don’t want to pay for the service that was once free to also switch.

Sahil-Singh, Sep 14, 2020

Description

Automation for business and home IFTTT (aka IF This Then That) automates your business and home so that you can save time and get more done. Over 25 million individuals have used IFTTT to automate workflows that save multiple hours out of a typical day. IFTTT’s simple, no-code interface, combined with 800+ of the most popular business, productivity, and smart home apps, allows you to quickly create powerful business and home automations.

Turn on any of the 100,000’s of pre-built time-saving automations, or get creative, and build your own personal automations. Here’s a few ideas to get you started: • Post content across multiple social media networks • Connect and control every aspect of your smart home • Create and summarize content by integrating IFTTT’s AI tools • Use IFTTT Location to trigger automations • Integrate more apps with IFTTT Webhooks Sign up today for a free or paid automation plan. Top 30 business apps on IFTTT: Acuity, Airtable, Buffer, Calendly, Clickup, Discord, DocuSign, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Facebook, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Instagram, iOS Calendar, LinkedIn, Mailchimp, Microsoft, Notion, RSS feed, Todoist, Trello, Twitter, Slack, YouTube, Webflow, WordPress and Zoom. Top 30 home apps on IFTTT: Alexa, Arlo, Coinbase, ESPN, FitBit, Google Assistant, Google Nest, Google Wifi, Home Connect, Husqvarna, iOS Shortcuts, iRobot, Midea, Nanoleaf, NZXT, LIFX, Philips Hue, Ring, Siri, Smart Life, SmartThings, Spotify, Strava, SwitchBot, Twitch, Weather Underground, WeMo, Withings, Wyze, Yeelight Get help https://help.ifttt.com Terms of Use: https://ifttt.com/terms