Hubitat vs Homey Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hubitat
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely. Set up location-based automation and receive important alerts directly to your phone. This app enhances your existing home automation system.
- Access Dashboards
- Monitor and control devices
- Arm/disarm Safety Monitor
- Change Modes
- Define Geofence for Presence
- Receive Push Notifications
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App is an accessory to the Hubitat Elevation home automation system. Users of Hubitat Elevation can use the Mobile App to: - Access Dashboards to monitor and control devices, arm or disarm Hubitat Safety Monitor, change Modes and more. - Define a Geofence for Mobile Presence detection based on phone location. The Geofence center defaults to your hub location but can be dragged to any location and the radius set. - Receive Push Notifications from Hubitat Elevation apps.
Homey Pro
Design and visualize your living space in 3D with real-time tools. Easily edit floor plans, change decor, and place furniture to create your ideal home or business environment. Enjoy a photorealistic experience that makes decorating feel like a game.
- 3D real-time design
- Photorealistic visualization
- Real-scale house viewing
- Floor plan editing
- Furniture placement
- Cloud rendering and saving
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HOMEY is a cross-platform digital space that revolutionizes the way people explore, create and improve their living space at home or for business. HOMEY Pro is a one-stop home decoration solution that provides the best home decoration solution for you. It has 3D real-time and real-scale design and visualizing tools. Very easy to use, makes the decoration process feel like playing a game. Features: Photorealistic visual experience 1:1 Real Scale House viewing, easy to operate Real-time decoration Floor plan editing Floor and wallpaper changing Furniture placing Cloud rendering Cloud save your own decoration plan Compatibility iOS 9.0 users
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Homey Pro at 100% against Hubitat's 28%. Homey Pro also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.8). Hubitat's advantage is ratings volume (168 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Homey Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hubitat has 168 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Hubitat's written reviews are positive against 100% of Homey Pro's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hubitat | Homey Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (168 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 343 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hubitat, Inc. | Studio-R Co., Limited |
Customer experience
Hubitat
Homey Pro
Bugs and requests
Hubitat
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup consistently
- Geofence detection fails to send events to hub
- Geofence shows incorrect location (off by km)
- Login screen keyboard covers continue button
- App hangs at 'Loading User Data' screen
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- Dashboard doesn't load after backgrounding
- Local LAN mode not working, stuck on cloud
- Hub discovery doesn't work on iOS
- Duplicate rooms and devices displayed
- Incorrect device status reporting
- Notifications show 'invalid token' error
- App doesn't support screen rotation
- Email verification code not received
- Presence detection broken after updates
- App unable to connect to hub after updates
- Geofence size resets to default
- What's New screen cannot be dismissed
- Layout issues with overlapping buttons on iPhone 7
Requested features
15 requests- Native iOS app with proper UI/UX design
- Dark mode option
- Widget support for quick device access
- Ability to add/discover devices from mobile app
- Automation and scene creation from app
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- iPad landscape view support
- Drag-and-drop dashboard tile customization
- Multiple geofence locations
- Motion sensor activity logging in dashboard
- Improved dashboard responsiveness and layout
- Manual IP address entry for hub connection
- SMS-based account verification
- Battery usage optimization for geofencing
- Real-time notifications with better visibility
- Detailed user manual and in-app help
Homey Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hubitat
No in-app purchases
Homey Pro
No in-app purchases
