Yeelight Pro vs HOTO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yeelight Pro
This app offers a comprehensive smart lighting solution for your home, providing an ideal lighting experience and convenient control. It features low latency, localized control, and broad compatibility with major IoT platforms.
- Whole-house smart lighting environment
- Low latency and localized control
- HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Matter integration
- Works with Sonos certified partner
- Control Sonos speakers via app
- Use Sonos in automations and scenes
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The Yeelight Pro product line is dedicated to creating the best quality whole-house smart lighting environment, bringing users the most ideal lighting experience and the most convenient smart control. The Yeelight Pro control system has performance characteristics such as localisation, low latency, and controllable large-scale deployment, while the system natively accesses IoT platforms such as Homekit, Google Home, Alexa, Smarthings, Matter, Xiaomi. Yeelight is the certified partner of Works with Sonos. The Sonos + Yeelight Pro integration allows users to control Sonos speakers via the Yeelight Pro App and also enables them to use Sonos speakers in automations and scenes with other Yeelight Pro devices in their home.
HOTO
Connects to a smart laser rangefinder to manage device settings, control functions, and update firmware. It allows for data recording and measurement drawing.
- Device pairing
- Device control
- Firmware updates
- Data recording
- Measurement drawing
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可以连接小猴智能激光测距仪Pro，提供设备配网、设备控制、固件升级、数据记录，绘制测量
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yeelight Pro at 3.7 against HOTO's 2.7. Yeelight Pro also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 20 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 24%). HOTO's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yeelight Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Yeelight Pro's written reviews are positive against 24% of HOTO's.
Yeelight Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, HOTO every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yeelight Pro | HOTO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (10 ratings) — better | 2.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 23.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 194 MB | 190 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd. | Shanghai HOTO Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Yeelight Pro
HOTO
In-app purchases
Yeelight Pro
No in-app purchases
HOTO
No in-app purchases
