Comparison

Discourse Hub vs Home

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Discourse Hub

Connect with online communities and manage discussions from anywhere. This app allows you to join multiple communities, discover new ones, and stay updated with instant notifications. Engage in conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Access multiple communities
  • Discover new communities
  • Receive notifications
  • Post and reply instantly
  • Seamless community switching
Features
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The official mobile app for Discourse, the leading open-source platform for building and managing online communities.  With Discourse, people around the world connect, share knowledge, and engage in meaningful conversations. Discourse makes it easy to stay connected wherever you go. FEATURES: ALL YOUR COMMUNITIES IN ONE APP Add multiple Discourse communities and switch between them seamlessly, so you’re always in the loop. DISCOVER NEW COMMUNITIES Use the Discover feature to find and join new communities that match your interests. STAY UPDATED ON THE GO Receive notifications for new messages, replies, and updates, so you never miss anything important. INSTANT POSTING AND REPLYING Join conversations, ask questions, and share insights effortlessly. Discourse keeps you connected to the discussions that matter most to you.

About

Home

Control all your home lights with a single tap. Organize lights by room, adjust brightness and color, and customize icons for quick access. Syncs preferences across devices and supports multiple homes.

Highlights
  • One-tap light control
  • Organize lights by room
  • Adjust brightness and color
  • Customizable light icons
  • Control grouped lights individually
  • Syncs preferences via iCloud
  • Supports multiple homes
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Home Lights gives you fast, one-tap control of every light in your home through a clean, compact interface. Each room is organized into a collapsible section with a grid of buttons that show every light's power state, brightness, and color at a glance. Tap a button icon to toggle a light, or tap the body of the button to open a detail panel with sliders for brightness, hue, color temperature, and saturation. Pick from 16 icons to make each button instantly recognizable, and long-press a room's badge to toggle every light in that room at once. Personalize every home. Set a unique background photo for each of your homes, with adjustable blur and separate dim levels for light and dark mode — so each home feels distinct the moment you open it. Arrange your space. Enter edit mode to drag and drop rooms into the order that matches how you actually move through your home, and rearrange lights within each room the same way. Your layout, your way. Run HomeKit scenes. Trigger any of your existing scenes — Movie Night, Good Morning, Dinner — straight from the top of the home view, with no extra setup. Talk to your lights. Use the built-in assistant, powered by on-device Apple Intelligence, to control your home in plain language: "dim the living room", "turn everything off", "make the kitchen warm white", or "run movie night". Nothing leaves your device. Grouped lights, no compromises. For grouped accessories, adjust all services together or fine-tune each one individually — without ungrouping anything in HomeKit. Switch between multiple homes from a single tap, and pull to refresh light states anytime. Your room order, light order, icon choices, and per-home backgrounds sync seamlessly across your devices via iCloud. Supports light and dark mode. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.

Screenshots

Discourse Hub4 screens
Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Discourse Hub at 3.9 against Home's 3.0. Discourse Hub also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Home's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Discourse Hub holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Discourse Hub has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Discourse Hub's written reviews are positive against 0% of Home's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Discourse Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, Home every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 28, 2026 and June 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Discourse Hub versus Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiscourse HubHome
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (10 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDiscourseFabio Policarpo

Customer experience

Discourse Hub

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews138 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral13.8%
Negative60.1%

Home

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Discourse Hub

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Notifications won't clear (red badge persists)
  • App freezes on launch requiring force quit
  • White page flash when returning to feed in dark mode
  • Post editing interface misaligned on iOS 26.1
  • Links open in Safari instead of in-app
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  • Login redirects to website instead of app
  • App crashes on iPad with iOS 17.7.10
  • Blank/white screen on app launch
  • Keyboard input stops working when switching apps
  • Attachment viewing requires app restart
  • Private message and flagged post notifications stuck
  • App hangs on login
  • Thread loading extremely slow with tracking protection enabled
  • Editing post jumps to wrong thread position
  • App loses place when backgrounded

Requested features

14 requests
  • Native app instead of web view wrapper
  • Font size customization
  • Tab support for multiple threads
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Forum naming/customization
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  • Forum list sorting options
  • Dark mode toggle reflecting OS settings
  • Split view support on iPad
  • Dual account support per forum
  • In-app support/feedback submission
  • Search functionality
  • Persistent scroll bar option
  • Back button in standard iOS UI position
  • Camera access support

Home

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Discourse Hub

No in-app purchases

None

Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Discourse Hub free?
Discourse Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Home free?
Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Discourse Hub or Home?
Discourse Hub is rated higher. Discourse Hub averages 3.9 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Home averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Discourse Hub or Home have ads?
Neither Discourse Hub nor Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Discourse Hub or Home?
Discourse Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, and Home every 3 months. Most recently, Discourse Hub was updated on July 28, 2026 and Home on June 21, 2026.

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