Comparison

geeni vs LensSentry

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

Head to head
About

geeni

Manage all your smart home and smart health devices from a single, intuitive application. Control lights, switches, cameras, and track health metrics like weight and BMI. Automate actions with scenes and schedules, and share device access with family and friends.

Highlights
  • Control smart home and health devices
  • Track weight, BMI, and other health metrics
  • Sync health data with Apple Health
  • Group devices by room
  • Set smart scenes and schedules
  • Share device access with others
Features
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Meet Geeni. Your wish is Geeni's command. Control all Geeni smart home and smart health devices in one easy app, from ANYWHERE in the world. Geeni is easy enough for anyone to use and combines the SIMPLICITY of an on/off switch with PREMIUM features such as: - Easy, powerful control of each device. Choose a color or mood of our Color bulbs, schedule a smart switch, check in on your cameras, and track your weight, all from the same app! - Group devices and control by room - Smart Health products support tracking weight, BMI, Body fat percentage, basal metabolic rate, bone mass, visceral fat grade, and more, and track on the app or sync to Apple Health - Set smart scenes for automated actions - Schedule when devices turn on and off to allow more control and security - Choose which devices your friends, guests, roommates, or your family can control thanks to account sharing - Cloud based services so you can log in and control your home from any phone - HealthKit functionality for our new Smart Scale: synchronize your health data with Apple Health! - and more. Compatible with all Geeni-enabled smart devices. No complicated hub required; each Geeni device is smart enough to connect directly to your home wifi network.

About

LensSentry

Features
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Camera glasses are everywhere now, and you usually can't tell when one is pointed at you. LensSentry listens for the Bluetooth Low Energy signals that camera glasses broadcast — Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles, Amazon Echo Frames — and gives you a quiet, plainly worded heads-up. HONEST IN BOTH DIRECTIONS Most detectors hedge their alerts but let a quiet screen imply safety. LensSentry says both halves out loud, on the main screen, not buried in a help article: • A clear screen is not a guarantee. Glasses already paired and connected to a phone can go silent. • A detection is not proof anyone is recording. It means a matching signal is nearby. If that sounds like a product arguing against itself, it's the opposite. A privacy tool that overstates its own power is part of the problem. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES • Listens for the manufacturer identifiers and service UUIDs that camera glasses broadcast, checked against the Bluetooth SIG registry and public field captures • Three plain states: All clear, Possible, or Likely nearby, with a rough proximity estimate • A session log of what was heard — first seen, last seen, peak signal • Mute your own glasses so they never hold the room on alert • Detection signatures update over the air, so new fingerprints reach you without waiting for an app update ON IPHONE, SPECIFICALLY LensSentry checks while the app is open. iOS does not let a third-party app scan continuously in the background in a way we would be willing to describe as reliable, so we don't describe it that way. Open the app, check the room. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE These aren't policy promises we could quietly revise later. They're how the app is built. • No location. Bluetooth scanning is declared never-for-location at the operating-system level. The app cannot see where you are. • No accounts. Nothing to sign up for. • No ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind. • Works fully offline. Its only network use is downloading signature updates. • Optional, off by default: share anonymous radio fingerprints of detected glasses to improve detection for everyone. No hardware addresses, no location, nothing about you. WHAT THIS RELEASE IS NOT This is an early release and we'd rather say so than let you find out. The detection engine is covered by 145 automated tests, but no software can promise it will catch every device, and glasses that are already connected and quiet are genuinely hard to hear. Treat LensSentry as a second opinion. That is what we would say about a finished version too.

Screenshots

geeni4 screens
LensSentry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: geeni at Free against LensSentry's $2.99. geeni also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

geeni is free to download; LensSentry costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
geeni versus LensSentry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergeeniLensSentry
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (437K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings437K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size264 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMerkury Innovations LLCCurtis Vaughan

Bugs and requests

geeni

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Difficulty connecting devices to Wi-Fi
  • Cameras failing to record or playback footage
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Devices randomly going offline or unresponsive
  • Incompatibility with newer mobile OS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved app interface and user experience
  • Enhanced camera features (e.g., motion detection, cloud storage)
  • Better integration with smart home ecosystems
  • Ability to create custom lighting scenes and automations
  • Improved reliability and stability of devices and app

LensSentry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

geeni

No in-app purchases

None

LensSentry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is geeni free?
geeni is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LensSentry free?
LensSentry costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do geeni or LensSentry have ads?
Neither geeni nor LensSentry shows ads.

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