Joinin Home vs dewenwils
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Joinin Home
Easily control your smart home appliances remotely. Turn devices on or off, adjust settings like brightness and color, and set timers directly from your smartphone. Setup is simple, connecting your smart devices to the app in a few quick steps.
- Remote appliance control
- Turn devices on/off
- Adjust brightness and color
- Set device timers
- Simple device configuration
- Rename smart devices
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Joinin Home products help you control home appliance.You can simply turn on or turn off your smart device. There’s no need to go to the switch to adjust your smart device - just use our app. After connecting Joinin Home to your smart device products in a few simple steps: (1). Download our "Joinin Home" app in App Store; (2). Register an account in our "Joinin Home" app; (3). You need to have some Joinin Home smart devices in hand; (4). Configure these devices in our "Joinin Home" app and change appropriate name for your devices which will be used in "Joinin Home Smart" skills; (5). Control the work of smart devices through the Joinin Home app, such as: brightness, color, timing (6). Now all setup is finished.
dewenwils
Control your smart home devices remotely and connect them for a seamless experience. Monitor device status from anywhere and share access with family members. Discover and purchase new smart products through the integrated online mall.
- Remote device control
- Smart home connection
- Family device sharing
- Real-time status feedback
- Online smart product mall
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Life is simple from now on. 1、Device Control: remote control, build a "smart family". 2、Smart Connection: fast connection, enjoy the extremely speed experience. 3、Shared Devices: make it easy for the whole family to enjoy smart life. 4、Information Feedback: gain insight into the status of your home devices, anytime, anywhere. 5、Online Mall: enter the mall to buy smart products.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: dewenwils at 4.6 against Joinin Home's 3.3. dewenwils also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 13%) and ratings volume (236 vs 67). Joinin Home's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
dewenwils holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 236 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Joinin Home's written reviews are positive against 32% of dewenwils's.
Joinin Home ships an update every 8 months, dewenwils every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Joinin Home | dewenwils |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (67 ratings) | 4.6 (236 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 31.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 236 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hangzhou Juxing Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | Dewenwils Inc. |
Customer experience
Joinin Home
dewenwils
Bugs and requests
Joinin Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
dewenwils
Reported bugs
16 issues- Device switch locations move on 'All Devices' page
- Timer switch consistently turns off on its own
- App constantly logs out users
- Astronomical mode doesn't work
- Cannot adjust for sunrise/sunset times
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- Scheduler interface is unordered and hard to check
- Connecting to WiFi requires disabling 5G
- App only turns transformer on and off, no circuit separation
- Schedule function doesn't work
- Timer function does not turn devices on or off
- GUI doesn't reflect zone changes
- Cannot turn zones off with the app
- App has stopped working for pool motor timer
- Cannot set on and off times anymore
- App loses the network consistently
- Scenes do not activate when saved
Requested features
7 requests- Indication on 'AllDevices' page if each is On or Off
- Bigger back arrow
- Clarify device prompt labels
- Widgets or shortcut commands
- Apple Home integration
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- iPhone widget for easy access
- Feature to set timer to turn on for a certain amount of time then go off
In-app purchases
Joinin Home
No in-app purchases
dewenwils
No in-app purchases
