Comparison

Kichler Connects vs OpenYourInvite

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

Head to head
About

Kichler Connects

Effortlessly manage your outdoor landscape lighting from your smartphone or tablet. Create custom schedules, use preset options that adjust to daylight savings, or control your lights with your voice. Enjoy seamless integration with smart home devices and easy sharing with family members.

Highlights
  • Smartphone and tablet control
  • Customizable and preset schedules
  • Location-based and dusk-to-dawn scheduling
  • Daylight savings time adjustment
  • Voice control integration
  • Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity
  • On-board memory for offline control
Features
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Kichler Connects Digitally control your landscape lighting from your smartphone or tablet in minutes with the Kichler Connects ™ app. Designed to work with our Kichler® Smart Control Timer, this app allows you to utilize one of our preset lighting schedules, or create custom schedules of your own. Preset schedules can align with your location, dusk-to-dawn, and adjust to daylight savings time– allowing you to be in control of the beauty of your outdoors. Easy to use and install, the Kichler Connects App: - Connects to your Smart Control Timer via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth - Create customizable or select easy preset on/off schedules - Select cloud and location-based control, including astronomical scheduling, to align with the daylight savings hours and the changing seasons - Voice control via smart home devices for whole-home integration - Easily share and control among family members - For use with low-voltage landscape lighting transformers (compatible with most styles) - On-board memory to control your lights even if your Wi-Fi connection is interrupted - Can be set up by installers or homeowners quickly– just plug your timer into your transformer and set-up the app.

About

OpenYourInvite

Features
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OpenYourInvite is for the kind of invitation you want to open. Design your card, or start from a template. Choose the envelope: its paper, its liner, the wax seal. Your guests get a link. They open the envelope, read the card, and reply. For hosts - Design a card, upload your own artwork, or have one drawn for you - Send invitations by text or email, one at a time or one after another - Watch replies arrive, with headcounts and answers to your questions - Send reminders to the guests who haven't replied, or to everyone coming - Collect photos from the night on a shared photo wall For guests - No account, no app needed. Open the link and reply. - Answer the host's questions, say how many are coming, add a note Your guest list is yours. No ads, no selling anyone's details.

Screenshots

Kichler Connects4 screens
OpenYourInvite4 screens

Verdict

The call

Kichler Connects and OpenYourInvite are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Kichler Connects versus OpenYourInvite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKichler ConnectsOpenYourInvite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (704 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings704 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size243 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperL.D. Kichler CO..THEB CULLEN ROWE

Bugs and requests

Kichler Connects

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Schedules and presets not working as expected
  • Inability to control lighting system through app or voice assistants
  • Inconsistent performance, with lights not turning on/off as scheduled

Requested features

2 requests
  • Integration with Apple HomeKit
  • Simpler and more intuitive app design

OpenYourInvite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kichler Connects

No in-app purchases

None

OpenYourInvite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kichler Connects free?
Kichler Connects is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OpenYourInvite free?
OpenYourInvite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kichler Connects or OpenYourInvite have ads?
Neither Kichler Connects nor OpenYourInvite shows ads.

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