Home vs SafeCards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home
Control your home appliances remotely via Wi-Fi. Manage multiple devices simultaneously, set timers for automated functions, and easily share access with family members. The app offers a simple and quick connection process to your smart devices.
- Remote appliance control
- Simultaneous device management
- Customizable timers
- Family device sharing
- Easy device connection
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App to command through a Wi-Fi connection several home appliances. 1. Remote control: control home appliances from anywhere 2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App 3. Timer: set timer to perform multiple functions 4. Device sharing: One tap to share devices among family members 5. Easy connection: easily and quickly connect App to devices
SafeCards
Securely store and access sensitive documents like vaccine cards, passports, and licenses. This app offers end-to-end encryption and offline access, making it ideal for personal use and family sharing.
- Secure document storage
- End-to-end encryption
- Offline access
- Family sharing
- Built-in scanner
- No account required
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SafeCards is like a password manager for your most sensitive IDs and documents. Secure your vaccine card, passport, healthIDs, license, registration and more. Unlike other cloud storage apps, SafeCards is built with security and privacy in mind. Each vault is completely encrypted and stored on your device and in iCloud. No one - neither SafeCard or Apple - can read your files. SafeCards excels at collaboration with your close family members. Couples can access each other’s vaccine cards, licenses and passports; parents can share health records for their kids; and caregivers can securely hold directives and power of attorneys that can be accessed at a moments notice. Everything you normally keep in a filing cabinet is available everywhere you take your phone. As a result, SafeCards is also great for disaster preparedness. It works completely offline when the web isn’t available, so that you can take insurance IDs, licenses, prescriptions and more anywhere you go. SafeCards requires no account, email, username or password and stores no personal data. It is secured by Apple FaceID and iCloud. As a result, SafeCards keeps zero data about its users, making it one of the most privacy friendly applications available. SafeCards is dead-simple to use. Simply point and shoot your documents using the built-in scanner. Images are auto-adjusted before being encrypted and stored.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SafeCards at 100% against Home's 23%. SafeCards also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 17 months). Home's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 23% of Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of SafeCards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Home ships an update every 17 months, SafeCards every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home | SafeCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 205 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eduardo Gonzalez Trotter | 1st Quarter, Inc. |
Customer experience
Home
SafeCards
In-app purchases
Home
No in-app purchases
SafeCards
No in-app purchases







