Bond Home vs Lychee Watch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bond Home
Control your Smart By Bond devices, including ceiling fans, motorized shades, and fireplaces, remotely. Seamlessly integrate with popular voice assistants and home automation platforms for convenient smart home management.
- Control ceiling fans
- Operate motorized shades
- Manage fireplaces
- Voice assistant integration (Alexa, Google, Siri)
- Home automation platform compatibility
- Remote device control
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Bond Home is a leading platform for Smart By Bond ceiling fans (no hub required), remote-controlled motorized shades, ceiling fans and fireplaces (Bond Bridge is required). Bond Home connects your devices with Amazon Alexa, Google assistant, Siri and other popular home automation platforms.
Lychee Watch
Remotely manage your smart sliding doors and windows with this companion app. It allows control from any location, but requires initial setup via a separate mobile application.
- Remote control of sliding doors and windows
- Control from any location
- Companion app for SmartSlydr device
- Requires mobile app for initial setup
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Control your Sliding Doors and Windows from anywhere using the SmartSlydr Watch app. No need to take This is the secondary app to control the SmartSlydr device. The login and onboarding is not supported from the Watch App. Please use the Mobile app first for setting up a new account and onboard the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bond Home at 95% against Lychee Watch's 0%. Bond Home also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.5) and ratings volume (4K vs 2). Lychee Watch's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Bond Home holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bond Home has 4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Bond Home's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lychee Watch's.
| Parameter | Bond Home | Lychee Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Olibra, LLC | Lychee Things Inc. |
Customer experience
Bond Home
Lychee Watch
Bugs and requests
Bond Home
Reported bugs
3 issues- Remotes going out of sync
- Alexa integration issues
- Unreliable device control
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to rearrange device tiles
- Real-time device status updates
- Improved group/scene management
- Expanded device type compatibility
- Enhanced scheduling and automation options
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- Customizable button/command mapping
Lychee Watch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bond Home
No in-app purchases
Lychee Watch
No in-app purchases
