Comparison

Home vs SafeCards

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Remote appliance control
  • Simultaneous device management
  • Customizable timers
  • Family device sharing
  • Easy device connection
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Home4 screens
SafeCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Home versus SafeCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeSafeCards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews23.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEduardo Gonzalez Trotter1st Quarter, Inc.

Customer experience

Home

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral5.8%
Negative71.2%

SafeCards

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Home

No in-app purchases

None

SafeCards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Home free?
Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SafeCards free?
SafeCards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Home or SafeCards?
Home is rated higher. Home averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while SafeCards averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Home or SafeCards have ads?
Neither Home nor SafeCards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home or SafeCards?
Home ships an update every 17 months, and SafeCards every 3 days. Most recently, Home was updated on November 2, 2026 and SafeCards on November 3, 2026.

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