SYLVANIA Smart Home vs itek Smart Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SYLVANIA Smart Home
Easily update your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit accessories to the latest firmware. This app ensures your smart home devices have the newest features and improvements without needing a separate hub.
- Firmware updates for SMART+ accessories
- HomeKit integration
- No hub required
- View accessory status
- Automatic update process
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The SYLVANIA Smart Home app allows Apple HomeKit users to easily update their SYLVANIA SMART+ accessories to the latest firmware version to incorporate new features and improvements as they become available. Setting up and upgrading your SYLVANIA SMART+ HomeKit-enabled accessories is quick and easy, with no hub required for use. After pairing your SMART+ accessories to HomeKit, use this app to check for firmware updates. Your paired SMART+ HomeKit accessories can be viewed within the app and a message will be displayed next to the accessory if an update is available. Select the accessory to update and the process will automatically begin.
itek Smart Home
Manage all your smart home devices from a single application. Control devices individually or in groups, schedule their operation, and receive real-time safety alerts. Enjoy voice control integration with popular smart assistants.
- Unified device control
- Group device management
- Voice control integration
- Device sharing
- Real-time alerts
- Scheduling
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iTek Smart Home, Live Smart life with our Smart Devices • Control all iTek Smart Life Products using one App or Amazon Echo or Google Assistant • Add or control multiple devices at once with one App • Voice control via Amazon Echo and Google Home • Share Devices with your family members or friends and give them access to control your devices • Receive real-time alerts to ensure safety • Schedule when devices turn on or off to your convenience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: itek Smart Home at 4.5 against SYLVANIA Smart Home's 1.6. itek Smart Home also leads on review sentiment (34% vs 11%). SYLVANIA Smart Home's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 14 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
itek Smart Home holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 231 and 161 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of SYLVANIA Smart Home's written reviews are positive against 34% of itek Smart Home's.
SYLVANIA Smart Home ships an update every 4 months, itek Smart Home every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SYLVANIA Smart Home | itek Smart Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (231 ratings) | 4.5 (161 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.8% of reviews | 34.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 231 — better | 161 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEDVANCE LLC | Midwest Trading Group Inc |
Customer experience
SYLVANIA Smart Home
itek Smart Home
User reviews
SYLVANIA Smart Home
From 231 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Works well
- 👍 Flawless
- 👍 Fairly good
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly disconnecting
- 🐛 Unresponsive
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy app
- 🐛 Firmware updates don't work
itek Smart Home
From 161 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great value for money
- 👍 Excellent picture quality
- 👍 Many features for the price
- 👍 Good HD picture
- 👍 Can record on mobile
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work with newer camera models
- 🐛 Camera goes offline without subscription
- 🐛 Movement detection issues
- 🐛 No option to buy cloud storage
- 🐛 App doesn't work with bulbs
Bugs and requests
SYLVANIA Smart Home
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on launch
- Firmware updates fail
- Devices disappear from app
- Inability to connect to Bluetooth
- Lights behave erratically
Requested features
6 requests- Remove annoying pop-up notification
- Add 'never see again' option for notifications
- Improve app responsiveness and stability
- Better integration with smart home platforms
- Add scheduling/timer functionality
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- Improve color control and customization options
itek Smart Home
Reported bugs
25 issues- App update not working
- Update logged user out
- Device will not connect with Google Home
- App does not let control lights
- App doesn't work with bulb
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- Light won't connect to app
- App is completely useless
- App update doesn't work
- Cleared all devices after update
- Cannot group and control devices
- All devices disappeared after update
- Unable to connect to app after update
- 1.0.4 version is screw up
- Scheduled times stopped working
- Cannot turn light bulb on/off
- Smart light bulb will NOT connect to the app
- App crashes when scheduling
- App crashes when sharing devices
- Cannot connect to Google Home anymore
- Firmware needs update
- Cannot connect to Wifi
- Difficult to connect to Wifi
- Cannot add to Google Home
- Does not take whole Wifi password
- Not able to connect to Amazon Alexa
Requested features
3 requests- Modes Function for motion detection
- More preset color options
- Ability to edit color options
In-app purchases
SYLVANIA Smart Home
No in-app purchases
itek Smart Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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