Comparison

HomeLink® vs DocIt

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

Head to head
About

HomeLink®

This app guides you through programming your vehicle's built-in buttons to control smart home devices like garage doors and gates. It integrates with popular smart home platforms for enhanced in-car automation.

Highlights
  • Program vehicle buttons for home devices
  • Control garage doors and gates
  • Integrates with smart home platforms
  • Activate smart home routines
  • Bluetooth-enabled control
Features
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Use the HomeLink app for your HomeLink-equipped vehicle! The HomeLink app provides detailed instructions on how to program the HomeLink buttons in your car to operate your garage doors, gates, and other compatible smart home devices. HomeLink works with popular smart home platforms - giving drivers with Bluetooth®- enabled HomeLink even more smart home control from the comfort of their cars. The HomeLink integration with your preferred smart home platform can activate entire routines, all from the HomeLink buttons in your car! HomeLink® is the most widely used and trusted car-to-home automation system, with over 100 million HomeLink-equipped vehicles on the road today. HomeLink consists of vehicle-integrated buttons that use radio frequency (RF) and/or cloud-based wireless control to operate compatible home automation devices. By offering a combination of RF and cloud-based wireless control, HomeLink remains the industry standard for comprehensive, reliable, vehicle-to-home automation. For more information on HomeLink, visit: https://www.homelink.com Terms of Use (EULA), visit: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DocIt

Transform your device into a powerful document scanner and organizer. Capture, sign, measure, and secure your paperwork with smart features and private iCloud sync. All on-device, with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Smart document capture with auto-detection
  • AR measurement tool for real-world objects
  • On-device OCR for text search and copy
  • Markup and signature tools
  • Secure document locking with Face ID/Touch ID
  • Nested folder organization with custom colors
  • Private iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Scan, sign, measure, and organize - every kind of paperwork, all on-device. Free, ad-free, with private iCloud sync. No subscriptions, ever. DocIt turns your iPhone camera into a full document workflow. Capture documents, IDs, receipts, books, photos, business cards, and passports with smart edge detection and the right filter for the type you picked. Sign them with your saved signature. Measure real-world objects in AR. Lock the private ones behind Face ID. Sync everything across your iPhone and iPad through your personal iCloud, the same encrypted storage as Apple Notes and Photos. No ads. No subscriptions. No data collection. Built by one person who actually uses it. FEATURES SMART CAPTURE Pick what you are scanning: Document, ID Card, Book, Receipt, Business Card, Photo, or Passport. DocIt auto-tunes edge detection, perspective correction, and color filter for the type you picked. AR MEASURE Tap two points on any real-world surface to get exact distances. Desks, doorways, picture frames, room dimensions. Results save alongside your scans with measurements baked into the photo. Choose imperial or metric in Settings. ON-DEVICE OCR Every scan is run through Apple text recognition automatically. Search your library by content, copy text from any page, or share recognized text as plain .txt. Tap Edit to correct misreads or add notes. MARKUP AND SIGN Pinch to zoom and draw with Apple Pencil or finger. Save signatures once and drop them onto any document. Drag to position, pinch or drag handles to resize, tap once for the remove button. Add editable text annotations alongside. MANAGE PAGES Reorder pages by drag, multi-select to delete or share specific pages, or duplicate a whole document into another folder. Page changes are non-destructive until you save. PRIVATE FILES Lock individual documents or whole folders with a 4-digit PIN. Optional Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID for one-glance unlock. The PIN lives in your device secure Keychain. Never synced to iCloud, never recoverable. One PIN, all your locked items. ORGANIZE Nested folders with custom colors, emojis, and categories. Drag scans between folders, multi-select for bulk actions, merge several PDFs into one, share whole folders as ZIPs. Anything you delete waits in the Trash for 30 days. SHARE EVERYWHERE Share any scan as PDF, individual JPG, JPG ZIP for multi-page, or the plain recognized text. Or use any other app share sheet to send PDFs and images straight into DocIt. ONE TAP FROM ANYWHERE Pin DocIt to your Lock Screen, Control Center, or the Action Button. Or ask Siri: Scan with DocIt. A fresh scan is one tap away. AUTO-UPLOAD TO YOUR CLOUD Send every new scan straight to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Box. Wherever you already keep your files. No third-party logins to manage. SYNCED PRIVATELY Folders, scans, and recognized text sync across iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud. No third-party servers. Ever. SIX APP ICONS Pick from Classic, themed colors, or the Liberty (USA) edition. Switch from Settings then App Icon. BUILT BY ONE PERSON DocIt is built and maintained by a single indie developer. No VC, no growth team, no ad partners. The optional Tip Jar in Settings keeps the lights on, only if you want to. We do not sell your data because we do not have your data. Everything happens on-device, syncs through your personal iCloud, and stays yours. Questions or feedback? contact@castleground.co

Screenshots

HomeLink®4 screens
DocIt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: DocIt at 100% against HomeLink®'s 40%. DocIt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). HomeLink®'s advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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. HomeLink® sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DocIt sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DocIt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeLink® has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of HomeLink®'s written reviews are positive against 100% of DocIt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeLink® ships an update every 5 months, DocIt weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HomeLink® versus DocIt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeLink®DocIt
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (33 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size238 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGentexCastleground LLC

Customer experience

HomeLink®

All ratings33 ratings
Positive60.6%
Neutral6.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

DocIt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HomeLink®

One-time1
  • One Year$1.99
3 purchases

DocIt

One-time3
  • Optional Small Tip$0.99
  • Optional Medium Tip$4.99
  • Optional Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is HomeLink® free?
HomeLink® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocIt free?
DocIt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HomeLink® or DocIt?
DocIt is rated higher. HomeLink® averages 3.5 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while DocIt averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do HomeLink® or DocIt have ads?
Neither HomeLink® nor DocIt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeLink® or DocIt?
HomeLink® ships an update every 5 months, and DocIt weekly. Most recently, HomeLink® was updated on September 14, 2026 and DocIt on September 7, 2026.

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