Comparison

Yeelight Pro vs Placify

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

Head to head
About

Yeelight Pro

Control your smart lighting system for an optimal home ambiance. This app offers convenient smart control with low latency and local processing for a seamless experience.

Highlights
  • Whole-house smart lighting
  • Ideal lighting experience
  • Convenient smart control
  • Local processing
  • Low latency
  • Large-scale deployment
  • IoT platform integration
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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.

About

Placify

Consolidate travel ideas, saved places, and memories onto a single, personal map. Organize inspiration, plan efficient routes, and transform your journeys into animated videos. This app acts as a digital travel journal, keeping your experiences private and accessible offline.

Highlights
  • Save places from any source
  • Organize and filter saved locations
  • Plan and optimize routes
  • Create animated travel videos
  • Digital travel journal with memories
  • Offline access to data
  • Shareable trip posters and videos
Features
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The most beautiful things in life are not just things. They’re people, places, memories, and pictures. Placify is a personal map, travel planner, and itinerary maker for the places that matter to you. Save restaurants, hidden gems, travel ideas, and “places to visit” from anywhere. Turn social saves into real trip plans. Plan smarter routes. Turn routes into animated travel videos. Let your map become a living travel journal. In a world where places are scattered across apps, screenshots, messages, and links, Placify brings everything back to one map: yours. --- ※ Save Places from Anywhere Travel ideas are everywhere: a restaurant in an Instagram Reel, a viewpoint in a TikTok video, a cafe from a friend, or a saved pin from a map app. Instead of rewatching clips, digging through saved folders, or pinning places one by one, send them to Placify. Placify turns scattered social saves, map shares, links, screenshots, notes, and photos into saved places on your personal map. Search, filter, group, and plan around them when the next walk, weekend, or trip begins. --- ※ Search, Filter & See the Whole Map Search by place name or address. Switch between list and map views. See where your saved spots cluster across cities and regions. Create dynamic views like: ・ “Rooftop Bars in Tokyo” ・ “2026 Solo Trip” ・ “Places Visited Twice” Your world, organized the way you think. --- ※ Plan Routes from the Places You Find Turn travel guides, shared links, social saves, trip notes, and saved ideas into a route you can edit. Placify helps connect scattered places into one path, so you can adjust the order, stops, and route details as your plan takes shape. Add multiple stops. Reorder freely. Use Smart Route to optimize the most efficient order. Visualize distance and travel time instantly. Perfect for turning online inspiration into road trips, city walks, weekend plans, and multi-day itineraries. --- ※ Bring Your Routes to Life Turn a route into an animated travel video with the path, stops, and memories you saved along the way. Use it to share a trip, a city walk, or a favorite route with friends. Your map becomes a simple visual story that is easy to save, watch, and share. --- ※ Travel Journal, Memories & Stats Automatically link photos to places. See where you were “on this day” in previous years. Receive gentle memory reminders. Track visit counts for every location. Your map becomes a timeline you can return to. --- ※ Smart Organization Automatic categorization and tag suggestions keep your archive tidy and searchable. Future you can always find the places that mattered. --- ※ Private, Offline, Yours Your data stays on your device. Access saved places and itineraries offline. Your map belongs to you. --- ※ Share Beautifully Turn trips and collections into posters, image cards, story templates, and route videos. Share inspiration while keeping your own perspective. --- ※ Widgets & Reminders Access favorite views, routes, and memories directly from your home screen. Set reminders for places you want to visit again. --- Whether you plan trips with tools like Wanderlog or Tripsy, or discover inspiration through Instagram, TikTok, Rednote, Tabelog, or local map apps, Placify brings everything together into one elegant personal map. Built around your places, routes, memories, and the way you experience the world. Rediscover your world, one place at a time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Yeelight Pro4 screens
Placify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Placify at 4.3 against Yeelight Pro's 3.7. Placify also leads on review sentiment (59% vs 33%) and ratings volume (56 vs 10). Yeelight Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Placify sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Yeelight Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Placify holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Placify has 56 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Yeelight Pro's written reviews are positive against 59% of Placify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yeelight Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, Placify every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Yeelight Pro versus Placify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYeelight ProPlacify
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (10 ratings)4.3 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews58.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1056 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB247 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperQingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd.WHITESSPACE SDN. BHD.

Customer experience

Yeelight Pro

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative61.1%

Placify

All ratings56 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral8.8%
Negative32.4%

In-app purchases

None

Yeelight Pro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Placify

Subscriptions2
  • Placify Pro - Monthly Flexi$4.991 Month
  • Placify Pro - Annual Saving7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Placify Pro - Lifetime$29.99
  • Placify Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Yeelight Pro free?
Yeelight Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Placify free?
Placify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Yeelight Pro or Placify?
Placify is rated higher. Yeelight Pro averages 3.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Placify averages 4.3 from 56 ratings.
Do Yeelight Pro or Placify have ads?
Neither Yeelight Pro nor Placify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yeelight Pro or Placify?
Yeelight Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, and Placify every 2 weeks. Most recently, Yeelight Pro was updated on November 11, 2026 and Placify on November 14, 2026.

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