LUX Control vs HomesRunner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LUX Control
Control GM Lighting's smart products to customize your home or workspace. Create preset scenes, set schedules, and adjust brightness and color for the perfect ambiance. Compatible with voice assistants.
- Control GM Lighting Smart Products
- Create preset scenes
- Set schedules
- Adjust brightness and color
- Voice assistant compatibility (Alexa, Google Home)
- Control RGBW and V120 tape lights
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LUX Control™ App allows you to control all of your GM Lighting's Smart Products and Controls to fully experience the quality and beauty that GM Lighting offering brings to your home or workspace. With the LUX Control™ App, you can create preset scenes, set schedules for your GM Smart Products, switch lights ON/OFF and control the brightness and color of your lights to create the ideal mood or ambiance that you desire and to compliment your circadian rhythms all from the convenience of your phone or tablet. LUX Control™ App is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Home voice assistants. The app allows you to control GM Lighting’s RGBW tape lights, line voltage V120 tape as well as our low voltage LED Tape and a variety of other GM Lighting’s Smart Products.
HomesRunner
Connects customers needing on-demand real estate services with providers who can fulfill those needs. Facilitates easy booking and payment for services.
- On-demand service booking
- Provider payment system
- Real estate service marketplace
- Customer-provider connection
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An app where customers can book on demand real estates services and getting providers can get paid on demand
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: HomesRunner at weekly against LUX Control's every 6 months. HomesRunner also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). LUX Control's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for LUX Control against 5.0 for HomesRunner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LUX Control has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LUX Control ships an update every 6 months, HomesRunner weekly. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.
| Parameter | LUX Control | HomesRunner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GMLighting | Tamadtech L. L. C. |
Customer experience
LUX Control
HomesRunner
In-app purchases
LUX Control
No in-app purchases
HomesRunner
No in-app purchases
