Comparison

Fruitstand vs LightLayout for Philips Hue

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

Head to head
About

Fruitstand

Catalog your entire Apple device collection, including specifications, condition, and serial numbers. Organize, search, and analyze your collection with powerful tools. Syncs across devices and offers robust security options.

Highlights
  • Store Apple product details
  • Track specifications and condition
  • Powerful search and sorting
  • Customizable attributes
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Collection statistics and charts
  • Import/export CSV data
  • Biometric security options
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Fruitstand is the one place to store your entire Apple collection on all the Apple products you love. Store info about Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, iPod, HomePod, Apple Vision, and accessories. YOUR COLLECTION: Add info about each of your Apple products to Fruitstand. When you add a product to Fruitstand, you can add info about that product's specifications, color, condition, warranty status, activation lock status (if applicable), and serial number. You can also add additional comments and custom attributes. Fruitstand will automatically organize your collection by product type and model, with additional sorting options. Edit your collection at any time, and hide products from the main view. POWERFUL SEARCH: Search your entire collection with ease. Search with keywords and/or filters to find just the products you want. Sort search results by product value or year acquired. CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES: Add custom attributes to any of your products. These attributes can have a name, value, and optionally a color, font type, and one of over 6,000 SF Symbols associated with them. Once a custom attribute is added to one product, it will be available for use on all your products. Custom attributes are also searchable across the app. SYNC ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES: Fruitstand will automatically sync your collection across all your devices with iCloud. Any additions, edits, or deletions to your collection will be reflected on the other devices connected to your Apple Account. COLLECTION STATISTICS: Fruitstand provides helpful statistics about your entire collection, with charts illustrating total and average collection value data. IMPORT AND EXPORT YOUR COLLECTION: You can easily import your collection from formatted CSV files into Fruitstand. You can also export your collection to CSV at any time. SECURITY BUILT IN: Secure your collection with Face ID, Touch ID, or Optic ID. Fruitstand provides you the option to specify your level of security; you may choose to enable biometrics when launching or resuming the app, deleting products, adding/loading products, and/or editing products. WIDGETS: See your collection at a glance with widgets. The small widgets show your total collection size or total collection value. Medium widgets break down your collection size and collection value by product type. The large widget will show even more statistics about your collection value.

About

LightLayout for Philips Hue

Features
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Your home isn't a list. LightLayout turns your Philips Hue rooms into an interactive floor plan, so controlling your lights is as easy as tapping the room you see on the screen. See your whole home at a glance, spot which rooms are lit, and control them straight from the plan — at home or away. Tap a room for brightness, colour, white temperature, and the Hue scenes you already use. Long-press to toggle the whole room. Lift the plan into a 3D dollhouse view for a different perspective. Creating your layout is quick and guided. LightLayout imports rooms and lights from your Hue Bridge and helps you place them on a simple grid — no drawing skills required. Add floors, cut doorways, drop windows, and place each lamp roughly where it sits so the plan glows like your home does. Furnish rooms with beds, tables, sofas, and chairs so each one is recognisable at a glance, and add Outdoor Areas — grass, decking, or asphalt — to give patio and garden lights a place on the plan too. You can even trace over a scan, photo, or PDF of an existing plan. No Hue Bridge yet? Try the built-in demo home first. Control - Interactive floor plan for rooms and individual fixtures - Brightness, colour, and white temperature for compatible Hue lights - Recall the Hue scenes you've already created - 2D plan or a rotatable 3D dollhouse view - Optional remote access over mobile data or another Wi-Fi network - Home Screen and Mac desktop widgets, plus Siri and Shortcuts support Design your plan - Guided editor: multiple floors, doorways, windows, room merge, split, and lock - Indoor and Outdoor Areas — grass, decking, asphalt - Furnish rooms with beds, tables, sofas, and chairs, in natural tones or your theme's colour - Trace an existing plan from a scan, photo, or PDF Everywhere you are - Sync your floor plan across your Apple devices with iCloud - Share one plan with your household, across Apple Accounts - Keep working locally when iCloud is unavailable - Reconnect automatically after network changes, sleep, or Bridge restarts - Now available in English, Finnish, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese Simple by design - Try the demo home without a Hue Bridge - One purchase for all your iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac devices - No LightLayout account. No subscription. No ads or tracking. At home, LightLayout talks directly to your Hue Bridge over your local network. Optional Remote access uses a secure LightLayout gateway and the Philips Hue cloud when your Bridge cannot be reached locally. It is off by default and requires you to authorize your Philips Hue account. Each device pairs with the Bridge and authorizes Remote access separately. Local Bridge credentials stay in secure storage on that device; remote Hue authorization is stored encrypted by the gateway. A shared floor plan never grants anyone access to your Bridge or Hue account. Requirements: a Philips Hue Bridge and compatible lights. Initial setup requires the device and Bridge to be on the same local network. Remote access requires a separate Philips Hue authorization and an internet connection. LightLayout uses Hue Rooms (not Zones). Automations, entertainment areas, Sync Box, and gradient effects stay in the official Hue app. LightLayout is an independent third-party app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Signify. Philips Hue is a trademark of Signify Holding. Privacy Policy: https://www.lightlayout.app/privacy/ Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Fruitstand4 screens
LightLayout for Philips Hue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LightLayout for Philips Hue at none against Fruitstand's 5. LightLayout for Philips Hue also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). Fruitstand's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $7.99) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads and iOS requirement 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

Fruitstand costs $4.99 and LightLayout for Philips Hue $7.99 up front. Fruitstand sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. LightLayout for Philips Hue asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fruitstand ships an update every 6 weeks, LightLayout for Philips Hue every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fruitstand versus LightLayout for Philips Hue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFruitstandLightLayout for Philips Hue
Price$4.99 — better$7.99
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1817.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArmand SarkaniAppsolute oy

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Fruitstand

One-time5
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Extra Large Tip$19.99
  • Max Tip$49.99
None

LightLayout for Philips Hue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fruitstand free?
Fruitstand costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is LightLayout for Philips Hue free?
LightLayout for Philips Hue costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fruitstand or LightLayout for Philips Hue have ads?
Neither Fruitstand nor LightLayout for Philips Hue shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fruitstand or LightLayout for Philips Hue?
Fruitstand ships an update every 6 weeks, and LightLayout for Philips Hue every 3 days. Most recently, Fruitstand was updated on October 8, 2026 and LightLayout for Philips Hue on October 2, 2026.

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