Joinin Home vs BRmesh
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.
BRmesh
Control your Bluetooth smart lights with an intuitive app. Manage individual lights, groups, or all lights simultaneously. Create custom lighting scenes and schedule automatic on/off times for daily use or ambiance.
- Area-based light control
- Individual and group control
- Customizable scenes
- Scheduled on/off timers
- Control up to 240 lights
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Bluetooth smart light with APP control. Can be used for daily lighting and atmosphere lighting. Concise and practical control page: the lights can be divided into areas, the whole, individual or selective control of the light can be achieved through shortcut keys, which is very convenient and quick. Can control up to 240 lights. Built-in Newly Developed Timing Chips: You can set your favorite color to turn on and off on time everyday automatically. Scene: You can individually set the color or mode for each light, combine it into your favorite scene and save it, and one key to start when you need.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Joinin Home at 3.3 against BRmesh's 2.4. Joinin Home also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). BRmesh's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (25% vs 13%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Joinin Home holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 298 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of Joinin Home's written reviews are positive against 25% of BRmesh's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Joinin Home ships an update every 8 months, BRmesh fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Joinin Home | BRmesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (67 ratings) — better | 2.4 (298 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 25.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 298 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hangzhou Juxing Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | 坤明 杨 |
Customer experience
Joinin Home
BRmesh
Bugs and requests
Joinin Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BRmesh
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when selecting individual lights
- Sharing and QR code functionality not working as expected
- Inconsistent performance after app updates
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set custom colors for DIY modes
- More granular control over lighting effects and speed
- Integration with smart home platforms like Alexa and Google Home
- Improved music sync and rhythm modes
In-app purchases
Joinin Home
No in-app purchases
BRmesh
No in-app purchases
