Gemstone Lights vs YourKey Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gemstone Lights
Control your smart lights with an intuitive interface. Create custom patterns, set sunrise/sunset timers, and sync your settings to the cloud. Transform your home's ambiance effortlessly.
- Real-time pattern status
- Sunrise/sunset timers
- Offline timer support
- Cloud syncing for folders and patterns
- Intuitive interface
- Customizable lighting patterns
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Revolutionize your lighting experience with the new Gemstone Lights Hub2. Seamlessly control your lights, create patterns, and transform your home into a personalized haven of brilliance. Experience lighting control like never before. Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive interface for customizing and managing your Gemstone Lights. Key features include real-time pattern status, sunrise/sunset timers with offline support, and cloud syncing for your folders and patterns. Our new app ensures effortless lighting management anytime and anywhere.
YourKey Plus
This app provides a digital key service for guests, simplifying check-in and property access using a mobile device. It aims to streamline the entry process for accommodations.
- Digital key service
- Mobile key access
- Simplified check-in
- Guest access management
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YourKey+, in its continuous quest to improve the experience, invites you to try out its new Digital Access service to simplify check-in and opening with a mobile key. Don’t wait any longer and try out our new service!
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Verdict
Gemstone Lights and YourKey Plus both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of Gemstone Lights's written reviews are positive against 50% of YourKey Plus's. Gemstone Lights also leads on ratings volume (4.3K vs 1). YourKey Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 4.9 for Gemstone Lights against 5.0 for YourKey Plus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gemstone Lights has 4.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Gemstone Lights's written reviews are positive against 50% of YourKey Plus's.
Gemstone Lights ships an update fortnightly, YourKey Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gemstone Lights | YourKey Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gemstone Lights | Operto Guest Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
Gemstone Lights
YourKey Plus
Bugs and requests
Gemstone Lights
Reported bugs
2 issues- Missing folders and patterns
- Sway pattern not working the same as original hub
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Fireworks folder and ISO folder to be complete
- Adjusting speed should not start over, and most flow settings should have no pause
YourKey Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gemstone Lights
No in-app purchases
YourKey Plus
No in-app purchases
