Smartz Eaze

Review by eFreeware

Managing a property usually means juggling several apps, a handful of logins and a set of keys that keeps changing hands. Smartz Eaze is built around the idea that one account can hold the whole picture. It comes from Smartz Inc. and sits in the Lifestyle category on Google Play, where it has been available since July 2022.

The pitch covers three roles at once: landlord, tenant and homeowner. That is a wide net, and it shapes what the app tries to do. Rather than a single-purpose remote for one brand of gadget, it positions itself as the layer that sits above cameras, thermostats, locks, lighting, sensors and detectors, keeping them in one place.

It is free to install and carries no advertising, though in-app purchases exist for premium features. The score on Google Play sits at a 1.5 average across 952 ratings, which is worth keeping in mind as you weigh what the app promises against how it has landed with the people who have tried it.

Running a rental from one screen

For a landlord, the appeal is consolidation. A lock and a thermostat in the same place is a small thing until you are managing more than one property.

Access is the other half of that job. The app lets you share device access with tenants, which is the practical alternative to passing around physical keys or handing out a code that never gets changed. What makes this workable for a landlord is that permissions stay adjustable, so the owner decides what each person can reach and can revise that later.

I would expect this to matter most to someone with a small portfolio rather than a large operation. The tools described are about everyday oversight.

Devices, recording and the premium tier

The everyday use case is straightforward: one place to look at what is happening at home. Cameras, locks, lights, sensors and detectors in one account means a single check rather than five. For a homeowner who has accumulated a mix of smart devices, that is the core value on offer.

Cloud Recording handles video storage, and the developer ties it to a broader set of premium features that require an in-app purchase. The app is free to download and shows no ads, so the paid element sits alongside the free experience rather than interrupting it.

I would treat the video side as the feature to look at closely before committing. Stored footage is the part of a smart home setup that people lean on after something has already happened, so it is worth understanding the premium tier before you build habits around it.

What community living adds

There is a second layer for people whose building or neighborhood runs on Eaze. In those communities, the app is meant to deliver living experiences shaped around what that specific community needs, which suggests a setup where residents and managers are working from the same system rather than separate ones.

If your building or neighborhood runs on Eaze, the app is likely to be the natural front door to it. If it does not, that whole section of the product simply sits unused.

For a tenant in an Eaze community, the draw is having building-level features and personal device control in one account instead of two separate apps. That combination is the reason the tenant role gets its own mention alongside landlords and homeowners.

Getting set up

There is no advertising in the free experience, and premium features are available through in-app purchases. Setup revolves around bringing your devices into one account rather than configuring each one separately.

Sharing comes after that. Once devices are in place, you can grant access to friends, family, tenants or others, and the permissions attached to each person stay under your control. That order makes sense for a property: get the hardware connected, then decide who can see and operate what.

The most recent update, from October 2026, is described simply as improved overall performance. Anyone installing now is getting the same feature set with whatever tuning the developer has applied since.

Where it fits and where it does not

The strongest case for Smartz Eaze is a landlord or homeowner who wants one account for a mixed set of devices and needs to hand access to other people without losing control of it. The permission model is the centerpiece, and it is what separates this from a plain device remote.

A tenant inside an Eaze-powered community is the other clear fit, since the community features only mean anything to someone whose building has adopted the platform. For everyone else, the app is a general smart home hub with a video storage tier attached.

The rating is the caution here. A 1.5 average from 952 ratings is a low figure for an app with 50,000-plus installs, and it suggests that the experience has not matched expectations for a substantial share of the people who downloaded it.

The scope is also deliberately broad. Covering landlords, tenants and homeowners in one product means each group gets a general set of tools rather than a deep one built for their situation alone.

A hub for landlords with devices to share

The free download, the absence of ads and the adjustable permissions make it easy to evaluate against how you already run things.

It is also the obvious choice for anyone living in a community that already runs on Eaze, where the tailored community features have something to attach to.

My suggestion is to start with the device list and the sharing model, since those are the parts the app is built around. If they match how you run your property, the rest follows. If your needs are narrower, a single-purpose app may serve you with less to configure.

What's new in version 2.0.6

Improved overall performance