TailWind Smart

After years of fairly good reliability, the team made a big update to the app in Aug 2025 that seems to basically ruined it. I was signed out after installing it, which is mildly annoying, but the real trouble started after that. The iOS widgets I rely on daily no longer work. Yet worse is being frequently signed out of the app and having to re-authenticate to access my doors. Most recently when I was signed out for the umpteenth time both of my garage doors were deleted from the app. This simply isn’t worth it. The product used to be passably reliable, but is now worthless. Super frustrating to have to hunt down a hide-a-key to get into my house after relying on Tailwind for years. No longer.

I picked this up for automating my garage door. It works well. No issues with the door opening/closing as we approach or leave our driveway. As a system administrator by day and general programmer for funsies, I found this app and execution of to be really well planned. My only complaint would be the massive battery drain for IOS users due to “always on” location services, but like you, I was mostly aware of this prior to purchase. I would recommend this to a friend that didn’t want a monthly subscription

Overall this is a very well polished app and device. My only hiccup so far was not being able to paste my password from a password manager during a password reset. Other than that, for the past week, my garage door has been much smarter, and I continue to be just as dumb. Luckily I don’t have to worry about leaving it open anymore. It just shuts itself. Feature request! Use location services to allow me to disable notifications while I’m home. The schedule feature is cool, but I’m not on a set schedule.