Comparison

IKEA Home smart vs Garnly

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

Head to head
About

IKEA Home smart

Automate your home with smart lighting, speakers, blinds, and air purifiers. Create personalized scenes for everyday moments like waking up or entertaining. Control devices individually or in groups for a smoother, smarter living experience.

Highlights
  • Create personalized smart home scenes
  • Control lighting, speakers, and blinds
  • Monitor air quality
  • Group devices for room-wide control
  • Schedule scene activation
  • Integrate with voice assistants
Features
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With IKEA Home smart app and DIRIGERA hub, it's easy to create smarter everyday moments with lighting, speakers, blinds and air quality products. Picture yourself waking up as your smart lights gently rise. Your favourite songs play on the speakers and you still haven't gotten out of bed. How lovely, right? Smart products like lighting, speakers, blinds and air purifiers can make a lovely addition to your everyday life. When you improve the IQ of your home, life itself runs a bit smoother. The magic happens when you combine two or more smart products from IKEA, tell them what to do in the app and save it as a 'Scene'. A great scene is one you will use often. Think about waking up and going to bed, cooking and eating, date night and family time, or leaving and coming home. All everyday moments when we can support you with the best lighting, sound that suits your mood, and cleaner air. When it comes to control, we think of everyone, from young to old and even visitors. So while the app gives you total control to customise your smart home, our range of remotes make it easy for everyone to live with and use a smart home. In control • You can control products individually or in groups. You can turn whole rooms on and off or the whole home, all at once. • Dim and change light colours, adjust blinds, speaker volume, and much more. • Set the scenes you need and trigger them with schedules, a shortcut button or use the app. Easy to use • The home screen gives a fast overview of your whole home. Quickly control products, access rooms, or start/stop scenes. This is also where you add new products, rooms, and scenes. Organised and personal • Organising your smart products in rooms gives fast access to the products you want to control. • Personalise the app with your choice of icons, names and colours for rooms and products • Create personal scenes, for example your own combination of cosy lighting and your favourite music. Integrations • Connect to Apple Home, Amazon Alexa or Google Home to use a voice assistant.

About

Garnly

Features
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Garnly is the home of your knitting. A space where inspiration comes first. Save the pieces, textures, and colors that define your style, and turn them into projects that feel considered and personal. Garnly brings together everything that shapes your knitting - in one refined place. Whether you follow patterns or create your own, Garnly gives you structure without limiting your creativity. It is designed to support a more intentional way of making, where every detail matters. Organize your patterns by importing PDFs and keeping everything accessible in one place. Follow your progress, add notes, and move through each project with clarity and control. Make each piece your own by adding modifications, sizing adjustments, and personal notes directly into your patterns. Build a system that reflects how you work, and keep track of what defines your style. Keep an overview of your yarn and tools with a clean, structured stash. Know what you have, what you need, and how everything works together across projects. Integrated tools support your process as you knit, from calculations to project tracking, designed to fit naturally into your workflow. Save inspiration and plan what comes next. Garnly allows you to collect references and ideas, and translate them into finished pieces without losing direction. Garnly is made for knitters who value aesthetics, structure, and a more elevated way of creating. Terms of Service: https://www.garnly.no/terms-of-service

Screenshots

IKEA Home smart4 screens
Garnly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IKEA Home smart at none against Garnly's 2. Garnly's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Garnly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. IKEA Home smart asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IKEA Home smart ships an update fortnightly, Garnly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
IKEA Home smart versus Garnly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIKEA Home smartGarnly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInter IKEA Systems B.V.EMBRIK SKRINDO

Bugs and requests

IKEA Home smart

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to remove devices
  • Scenes not working as expected
  • Inconsistent device discovery
  • Shortcut buttons not functioning
  • HomeKit integration problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Gradual lighting transitions
  • Sunrise/sunset automation
  • Remote access functionality
  • More customization options
  • Improved energy monitoring

Garnly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

IKEA Home smart

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Garnly

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$2.991 Month
  • Premium yearly14 Days trial$22.991 Year

Questions

Is IKEA Home smart free?
IKEA Home smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Garnly free?
Garnly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do IKEA Home smart or Garnly have ads?
Neither IKEA Home smart nor Garnly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IKEA Home smart or Garnly?
IKEA Home smart ships an update fortnightly, and Garnly weekly. Most recently, IKEA Home smart was updated on November 5, 2026 and Garnly on October 31, 2026.

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