Peoples vs Applets Center
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Peoples
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Company introduction Peoples Smart Living Limited (“Peoples”) is the exclusive partner of China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited for smart products solutions. Peoples is committed to providing customers with a comprehensive variety of smart products, software solutions, and 5G Enabled Innovations. As the exclusive partner of China Mobile, Peoples has abundant supply of smart hardware supplied by over 20,000 qualified manufacturers with over 400,000 IoT smart products. With smart products stocked in Hong Kong, Peoples can speedily install smart solutions. With Peoples App, the soul of our smart solution, all smart products can be controlled by one single app, smart products can activate other smart products to perform to achieve true automation of all smart products, and traditional devices and equipments can be “smartified’. Together with our dashboard platforms and software solutions, Peoples assists customers to work smarter, to improve their business, to streamline business processes, to automate repetitive tasks, and to save time and cost according to their wishes. Peoples’ goal is to understand customers’ wishes to provide tailor-made solutions · Most appropriate for their needs · Most simple to operate · Most affordable · Most speedy installation
Applets Center
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Smart Control Center is a general-purpose IoT application. With suitable collectors and controllers, smart scenes and smart control solutions can be quickly built. Main features: # Device Management - Add, delete devices - Device group management - Device information, group information management # Data Management - Real-time data viewing, such as temperature, humidity, current, voltage, etc. - View historical data # Equipment Control - Remote start and stop equipment, support forward and reverse control - Timing control device, such as turning on the device at 5 am every Monday - Cyclic control equipment, such as turning on the equipment for 5 minutes every 1 hour - Intelligent linkage, such as turning on the device when the temperature is greater than 25°C # Personnel Management - Manage personnel by role, administrator, operator, inspector - View personnel operation records # Other Functions - Receive alarms, such as high current, abnormal power failure, etc. - Handle alarms Supporting Data Sources: - All sensors with Modbus RTU protocol - All Collectors with Modbus RTU protocol - Third-party data submitted by s2s Supported Devices: - Smart distribution box - Intelligent greenhouse control box - Smart construction site distribution box
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Applets Center at every 9 days against Peoples's every 25 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Peoples ships an update every 25 months, Applets Center every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Peoples | Applets Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peoples Smart Living Limited | 桂花 陈 |
In-app purchases
Peoples
No in-app purchases
Applets Center
No in-app purchases









