Comparison

YoLink vs Fourshadow

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

Head to head
About

YoLink

Control a wide range of smart home devices, including lights, switches, thermostats, and cameras, through a central hub. This application enables comprehensive home automation and management.

Highlights
  • Control smart lights
  • Manage smart switches and sockets
  • Automate watering systems
  • Monitor IP cameras
  • Integrate with YoLink hub
  • Home automation management
Features
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YoLink APP is released by YoSmart Inc. This APP can control all YoSmart equipment through YoLink hub, including the LED strip lights, smart switch, smart socket, Thermostat, automatic watering system, IP camera and so on. Smart Home is also called smart house, intelligent home, and home automation. It is some application of Internet of Things

About

Fourshadow

This app offers an atmospheric almanac that tracks seasons, nature, and celestial events at your location. It provides daily practices for presence, a curated guide to natural changes, and a nightly sky map. It also includes a creative check-in and a visual diary of your year.

Highlights
  • Generative sky reflecting real-time sun and moon positions
  • Curated nature observations keyed to your location and season
  • Nightly sky highlights with moon phase and meteor showers
  • Live sky map with planets and satellite tracks
  • Yearly visual diary with photo uploads for each month
  • Daily creative check-in with prompts and notes
  • Seasonal prompts for creative inspiration
Features
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Fourshadow is a quiet, atmospheric almanac for the year unfolding around you. It tracks the seasons at your exact location, points out what's happening in nature this week, shows you what's worth looking at tonight, and gives you a small daily practice for staying present to all of it. The home screen is a generative sky over the place you stand — sun where the sun actually is, moon where the moon actually is, season-appropriate light and ambient particles. As the year turns, the sky turns with it. WHAT TO WATCH A hand-curated almanac of what's changing in nature near you, keyed to your hemisphere, climate zone, and stage of the season. Bloom timing, bird arrivals, foliage shifts, the angle of late-afternoon light. Tap a card for a longer field-guide entry with where to look, when to look, and how to identify what you're seeing. TONIGHT A second almanac for after dark. A computed highlights card pulls together tonight's facts — moon phase, the end of astronomical twilight, active meteor showers, ISS pass nudges. Below it, a curated month-by-month editorial section: what's overhead right now, the bright star to find, the constellation just rising. Includes a live sky map with real planets and satellite tracks. THE PHENOLOGY WHEEL A year-of-photos rendered as a twelve-spoke wheel — a slow, visual diary of your year in nature. Drop a cover photo into each month as it passes. Pinch, pan, and rotate the crop. Build multiple wheels per year. Look back at five years of wheels and watch the seasons repeat themselves a little differently each time. CREATIVE CYCLE A daily in-or-out check-in for your creative life. Were you receiving today, or making? A year-at-a-glance heatmap shows the rhythm. Each day comes with a hand-curated seasonal prompt, and you can attach a photo and a note. A rolling reminder nudges you at the time you choose — and never on a day you've already marked. No tracking, no accounts, no ads Fourshadow won't make you more productive. It will make the year feel longer in the best way. Privacy Policy: https://fourshadow.pages.dev/privacy.html

Screenshots

YoLink4 screens
Fourshadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fourshadow at 5.0 against YoLink's 3.0. Fourshadow also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). YoLink's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). 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

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

Fourshadow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YoLink has 43 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YoLink ships an update every 3 weeks, Fourshadow daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
YoLink versus Fourshadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYoLinkFourshadow
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (43 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoSmartTinybits

Customer experience

YoLink

All ratings43 ratings
Positive48.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative51.2%
Written reviews182 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral20.9%
Negative36.3%

Fourshadow

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

YoLink

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App not working with iOS 15
  • Frequent disconnections of hub and sensors
  • Inability to save temperature alert ranges
  • Alerts not working as expected
  • Offline sensor issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add dark mode option
  • Improve temperature/alarm setting controls
  • Implement Apple Shortcuts support
  • Add iPad app version
  • Allow custom notification sounds

Fourshadow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

YoLink

No in-app purchases

None

Fourshadow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YoLink free?
YoLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fourshadow free?
Fourshadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, YoLink or Fourshadow?
Fourshadow is rated higher. YoLink averages 3.0 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Fourshadow averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do YoLink or Fourshadow have ads?
Neither YoLink nor Fourshadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YoLink or Fourshadow?
YoLink ships an update every 3 weeks, and Fourshadow daily. Most recently, YoLink was updated on October 15, 2026 and Fourshadow on October 7, 2026.

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