HomeLink® vs Basis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Program vehicle buttons for home devices
- Control garage doors and gates
- Integrates with smart home platforms
- Activate smart home routines
- Bluetooth-enabled control
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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/
Basis
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Basis is a personal productivity tool that holds your tasks, notes, and reference material in one calm workspace. No more switching between a task app and a note app. One system for everything you want to do, remember, and save. WHY BASIS Your brain doesn't split "reply to Mike" from "the article I want to save" from "the recipe to try later." Different apps do, and every context switch is a tax on focus. Basis holds active tasks, captured notes, and your reference library in one place. Everything's cleanly organized, but nothing's walled off just because it happens to be a task versus a note. FEATURES - Tasks and notes in a unified interface - Reference library for articles, PDFs, photos, meeting notes - Notebooks to organize what you save, or leave things loose - Natural language capture: type "buy milk tomorrow p1 @errands" and Basis prioritizes, schedules, and tags it - Focus section to curate what you're working on today - Rich text editor with tables, lists, and inline images - Full keyboard support for power users DESIGNED FOR CALM Most productivity apps get louder over time. More badges. More features begging for attention. Basis takes the other path. Every design choice is against the noise, so your work stands out, not the app. WHO IT'S FOR For anyone who keeps their tasks in one app and their notes in another. Basis brings both together in one calm workspace.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basis at none against HomeLink®'s 1. Basis also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. HomeLink® sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Basis asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | HomeLink® | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gentex | Lance Hackney |
In-app purchases
HomeLink®
- One Year$1.99
Basis
No in-app purchases









