Comparison

Planar Home vs Code

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

Head to head
About

Planar Home

Control smart lighting fixtures within a 100m radius using Bluetooth. Adjust brightness, color, and scenes with real-time synchronization and enhanced security.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth 4.0 control
  • 100m control radius
  • Real-time synchronization
  • On/off switching
  • Dimming
  • Tuneable white
  • RGBW control
  • Lighting scenes
Features
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Planar Home APP is a Lighting Control Application based on Bluetooth 4.0 Radio Technology. A new Generation Intelligent Control up to 4 billion pixels with a new level of high security and privacy protection. With a single touch, customers can control billions of light fixtures within an extensive 100m radius that synchs in real time with no intermittent signal. The APP corresponds through on/off switch, dimming, tuneable white, RGBW and lighting scenes.

About

Code

This app allows you to encode and send private messages using custom formats. Choose between coding a message to send or decoding a received message. Select from text, numbers, or symbols for your coded communication.

Highlights
  • Code messages
  • Decode messages
  • Custom message formats
  • Text, numbers, and symbols encoding
  • Send coded messages via phone number
Features
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This App is all about privacy in sending messages by coding it. How to code and send your messages: ================================== In the launch screen you get two choices either the Blue Button "Code a Message" Or the Yellow Button "Decode a Message". If you click on the Blue "Code a Message" you will get a blank text box and you will be asked To "click in the red box to type". After you type your message you need to click on the blue button "Code it" to code your message. That will take you to another screen with 3 different format for your message, you then click on the "send my message" to send it. A sheet will be presented to you asking you to enter a phone number, and you need to Select the format for the message (text, numbers, or symbols). How to Decode the received messages: =================================== On the launching screen if you click on the yellow button "decode a Message" you are going to get a screen with 2 text boxes one to paste your message if it's in Symbols or Numbers format and the other text box is going to display the message in Text format when you click on the Decode the message button.

Screenshots

Planar Home4 screens
Code4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Planar Home at 5.0 against Code's 3.0. Planar Home also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Code's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). 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

Planar Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planar Home ships an update every 3 months, Code every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Planar Home versus Code: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanar HomeCode
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEYARD & PLANAR SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITEDKHALED HABIB

Customer experience

Planar Home

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Code

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Planar Home

No in-app purchases

None

Code

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planar Home free?
Planar Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Code free?
Code is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planar Home or Code?
Planar Home is rated higher. Planar Home averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Code averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Planar Home or Code have ads?
Neither Planar Home nor Code shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Planar Home or Code?
Planar Home ships an update every 3 months, and Code every 5 days. Most recently, Planar Home was updated on September 19, 2026 and Code on September 14, 2026.

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