HomeLink® vs Auto Work Hours
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/
Auto Work Hours
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Work Hours automatically tracks time at your workplace using efficient geofencing — not constant GPS drain. Arrive at work and a session starts. Leave, and it ends. Review pay-period totals, pace charts, and full session history. Manage multiple jobs, each with its own location and pay schedule. FEATURES • Automatic arrive / leave logging with workplace geofences • Multiple jobs (separate locations, sessions, and schedules) • Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or custom pay periods • Hours pace chart vs. prior period • Manual add, edit, and delete sessions • Pay period history with CSV download / upload • Home Screen widgets and Live Activity while on the clock • Optional arrive & leave notifications with sound choices Your work data stays on your device. Location is used only to detect workplaces you configure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Auto Work Hours at none against HomeLink®'s 2. Auto Work Hours also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support 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 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Auto Work Hours asks for nothing beyond the download.
HomeLink® ships an update every 5 months, Auto Work Hours daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeLink® | Auto Work Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (34 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gentex | FELIPE CORTES-JIMENEZ |
In-app purchases
HomeLink®
- HomeLink Cloud1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- HomeLink Cloud1 Month trial$29.991 Year
Auto Work Hours
No in-app purchases
Questions
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