Yarbo vs HOOKII
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yarbo
Control your robotic snow removal system with this app. Plan snow removal areas, manage operations, and monitor progress in real-time. Features include manual control, location tracking, and automatic charging.
- Area planning for snow removal
- Automatic plan creation
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Manual controller usage
- Location tracking
- Auto return charging
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This app allows you to control all the functions of Yarbo robotics, including: - Planning the total area for snow removal, - Managing the total area, - Creating automatic plans, - Monitoring the progress of Yarbo in real-time, - Using the manual controller, - Locating your Yarbo, - Managing your profiles, - Enabling auto return charging.
HOOKII
This intelligent platform allows users to schedule and monitor lawn mowing tasks remotely. It provides real-time updates on mower progress and location, with notifications for task completion or issues. The app features a user-friendly interface for effortless lawn management.
- Smart mowing scheduling
- Real-time progress monitoring
- Mower location tracking
- Task completion notifications
- Issue detection alerts
- User-friendly interface
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Neomow App is a intelligent lawn management platform developed by HOOKII. It enables users to effortlessly orchestrate mowing tasks and monitor real-time progress, thus offering a smart mowing service. The masterpiece’s features encompass: Smart mowing: Neomow App empowers users to designate mowing times and areas, facilitating autonomous mowing operations. Real-time monitoring: Users gain instant visibility into the lawn mower's progress and location, keeping them informed about lawn maintenance status. Notification reminder: Neomow App promptly sends alerts upon task completion or detection of issues, ensuring users are always updated on the current state of their equipment. User-friendly interface: Neomow App boasts a sleek and intuitive design, and is easy to operate, enabling a broad range of users to swiftly acclimate and relish the conveniences bestowed by smart mowing. Through Neomow App, managing your lawn becomes a breeze, allowing you to maintain a more organized and attractive lawn.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yarbo at 62% against HOOKII's 0%. Yarbo also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (725 vs 9). On price, update cadence, 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.
Yarbo holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yarbo has 725 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Yarbo's written reviews are positive against 0% of HOOKII's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yarbo | HOOKII |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (725 ratings) — better | 3.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 725 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 256 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yarbo | Orca innovation technology Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
Yarbo
HOOKII
Bugs and requests
Yarbo
Reported bugs
29 issues- Difficulty maintaining GPS signal
- Overheating issues
- Problems with blades
- Slow support response
- Frequent software bugs and errors
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- Unit goes out of boundaries
- GPS problems under trees
- Charging issues related to GPS
- Unit slips on hills
- Unit has problems going around obstacles
- Unit skips long sections
- Poor cut quality
- GPS signal drops
- Unit goes out of boundary
- Requires significant manual intervention
- Bad pathing
- Poor obstacle avoidance
- Poor person detection
- Shoddy UX
- Software issues
- Connection issues (Wi-Fi and data)
- App is dysfunctional and frustrating
- Impossible to operate continuously
- Requires constant reconnecting/deleting/reconnecting
- No technical support available
- Cannot map
- Tutorials are a joke
- Unit gets lost under a tree during mapping
- Mower never delivered
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to edit maps
- Ability to draw no-go zones without driving the unit
- More human-readable diagnostic info
- Ability to program mowing every other day or every three days
- Ability to see programs while the unit is running
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- More focus on resolving customer issues
HOOKII
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yarbo
No in-app purchases
HOOKII
No in-app purchases
