Ylight vs HF Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ylight
This smart home app connects to your desk lamps via Bluetooth, offering enhanced color options and expanded functionality. It focuses on simplifying user interaction with your lighting.
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Extended color options
- Enhanced lamp functions
- Easy user interaction
- Smart home control
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HF Smart
Control your smart lighting fixtures with this intelligent lighting control application. Easily manage your lights for enhanced ambiance and convenience.
- Intelligent lighting control
- Control smart lighting fixtures
- Ambiance enhancement
- Convenient light management
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This app is an intelligent lighting control app that allows you to control smart lighting fixtures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ylight at every 3 days against HF Smart's every 2 months. Ylight also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). HF Smart's advantage is ratings volume (128 vs 4) and review sentiment (14% vs 0%). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.8 for Ylight against 1.7 for HF Smart. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HF Smart has 128 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Ylight's written reviews are positive against 14% of HF Smart's.
Ylight ships an update every 3 days, HF Smart every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ylight | HF Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (4 ratings) — better | 1.7 (128 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 13.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 128 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linhai Yixin Photoelectric Technology Co.,Ltd | 鉴深 徐 |
Customer experience
Ylight
HF Smart
Bugs and requests
Ylight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HF Smart
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not responding after recent update
- Unable to change language settings
- Pairing process not working consistently
Requested features
3 requests- Improve pairing instructions
- Add dark mode option
- Provide better language support
In-app purchases
Ylight
No in-app purchases
HF Smart
No in-app purchases
