emblazee vs Fiks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
emblazee
Control your HomeKit compatible lights from your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Organize your lights into homes, rooms, zones, and groups, and create custom scenes. Automate your lighting with time-based triggers and voice commands via Siri.
- HomeKit light control
- Create rooms, zones, and groups
- Custom scene creation
- Time-based scene triggers
- Siri voice commands
- Apple Watch support
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emblazee lets you control your HomeKit compatible lights on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. You can manage your homes and create rooms, zones, groups and scenes. In addition, you can create triggers that activate your scenes at defined times. You can control your Lights, Rooms, Groups or Scenes with Siri. For example you can turn on your Living Room if you say: "Hey Siri, turn on lights in the Living Room". Follow emblazee on social to stay updated. Facebook: www.facebook.com/emblazee Twitter: @emblazee
Fiks
This app unifies control of various smart home devices into a single, user-friendly interface. It currently supports popular brands like Honeywell, Ecobee, Philips Hue, and Lifx, aiming to simplify your connected living experience.
- Connect smart home devices
- Unified control interface
- Supports Honeywell
- Supports Ecobee
- Supports Philips Hue
- Supports Lifx
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Fiks makes your smart life simpler. To fulfill this mission Fiks has been created to connect all of your smart home devices into a single simple to use app. Currently Fiks supports Honeywell, Ecobee, Philips Hue and Lifx devices. We are in early release so please bear with us as we grow and work to make your smart life even simpler. Currently we do not fully support Ipad. If you have feedback or Device requests please submit through the feedback submission form under settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fiks at Free against emblazee's $0.99. Fiks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). emblazee's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and device support (5 vs 3). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Fiks is free to download; emblazee costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fiks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of emblazee's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fiks's.
emblazee ships an update every 7 months, Fiks every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | emblazee | Fiks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Dittmann | duo2labs |
Customer experience
emblazee
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In-app purchases
emblazee
No in-app purchases
Fiks
No in-app purchases
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