Lumi Life Plus vs CalixNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lumi Life Plus
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely with an intuitive interface. Automate your home, set schedules, and manage lights, temperature, and more with simple taps.
- Remote device control
- Home automation
- Schedule and repeat settings
- Control lights, locks, temperature
- User-friendly interface
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Lumi Life is an amazing smart home application that allows you to control and monitor your smart home devices from anywhere and at any time. With its intuitive and user-friendly interface, you can automate your home, set schedules and repeats, and control lights, locks, temperature, and other connected devices with just a few taps on your phone. This is an easy and convenient way to manage your smart home and make your life smarter and more active.
CalixNote
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CalixNote is a private notebook that keeps everything encrypted on your device. There is no account, no cloud and no tracking — your notes, photos and files never leave your iPhone unless you choose to export them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Every note, image and file is encrypted before it is written to storage. • Encryption keys are generated on-device and stored in the iOS Keychain — they never leave the phone. • No accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs and no cloud — your content is yours alone. LOCK IT DOWN • Protect the app with a 6-digit PIN (stored only as a salted hash) and unlock with Face ID or Touch ID. • Repeated wrong PIN entries trigger an escalating lockout. THREE SPACES, ONE VAULT • Notes — folders, tags, colors, pinning, search, Markdown preview, templates and reminders. • Images — store photos encrypted, view panoramas, and hide a secret text message inside any picture (steganography). • Files — keep documents encrypted and preview 3D .glb models in a built-in viewer that runs offline. WRITE FASTER • Dictation in 10 languages — prefers on-device recognition, so it stays private and works offline whenever your language supports it. • Scan text from photos with on-device OCR. • Read notes aloud with automatic language detection. ENCRYPTED BACKUP • Export a password-protected .clx backup and restore it on another device. The backup is protected with PBKDF2 + AES-256-GCM and never contains your private key. DESIGNED FOR YOU • 10 interface languages, automatic dark mode, and an iPad-ready layout. A note on encryption: CalixNote protects your data at rest using Apple CryptoKit (ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-256-GCM) together with the iOS Keychain and Data Protection. Encryption protects data stored on the device and is not a substitute for your device passcode.
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Verdict
Lumi Life Plus and CalixNote are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Lumi Life Plus ships an update fortnightly, CalixNote every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Lumi Life Plus | CalixNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LUMI VIET NAM JOINT STOCK COMPANY | Le Tan Phuoc |
In-app purchases
Lumi Life Plus
No in-app purchases
CalixNote
No in-app purchases









