Bond Home vs The Uplift
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 ceiling fans, motorized shades, and fireplaces remotely. Seamlessly integrate with popular voice assistants and home automation platforms for a connected smart home experience.
- Control Smart By Bond ceiling fans
- Operate motorized shades
- Manage remote-controlled fireplaces
- No hub required for fans
- Integrates with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
- Works with home automation platforms
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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.
The Uplift
This app guides users through daily intention-setting, reflection, and mindset-shifting exercises to foster well-being and attract positive outcomes. It features an AI companion for support, guided meditations, and practical manifestation tools.
- Morning intention setting
- Evening reflection
- AI companion for support
- Guided meditations
- Manifestation exercises
- Vision board
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The Uplift is a daily manifestation and digital journal app built around one simple idea: how you feel matters. When you feel good, you attract good. This app helps you build the daily habits to live a joyful, intentional life. Every day, The Uplift guides you through a morning intention-setting practice, an evening reflection, and small exercises designed to shift your mindset and raise your vibration. Your AI companion is available anytime to help you work through resistance, reframe your thoughts, and stay connected to what you actually want. You'll also find manifestation exercises to help you get clear on your desires and an audio "story" to help you really feel into your desire and draw into your life faster. What's inside: Morning check-in — Start each day with a clear intention and a practice to get into alignment, whether that's an affirmation, a visualization, or a short meditation. Evening reflection — End each day with gratitude, a look at what went well, and a moment to release anything you'd like to let go of. AI companion — A warm, thoughtful guide available anytime. Not a chatbot — a real conversation that meets you where you are and helps you move toward better-feeling thoughts. Daily wisdom — A short, grounding reminder each day about who you are and what you're capable of. Guided meditations — Audio meditations to help you connect with your inner self and allow your natural well-being to flow. Manifestation exercises — Practical tools to help you get clear on your desires, build belief, and shift your perspective. Vision board — A space to hold your desires visually and return to them often. The Uplift is for anyone who's ready to live more intentionally — whether you're new to manifestation or have been practicing for years. 7-day free trial. $8.99/month. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.getupliftapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.getupliftapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bond Home at none against The Uplift's 1. Bond Home also leads on ratings volume (4K vs 4). The Uplift's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. The Uplift sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. Bond Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Uplift holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bond Home has 4K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bond Home ships an update monthly, The Uplift fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bond Home | The Uplift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 207 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Olibra, LLC | Kaley Coffield |
Customer experience
Bond Home
The Uplift
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
The Uplift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bond Home
No in-app purchases
The Uplift
- The Uplift7 Days trial$8.991 Month
