Home Lights Pro vs Hourly Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home Lights Pro
Precisely control HomeKit lights with advanced adjustments for brightness, hue, saturation, RGB, and color temperature. Easily copy settings, isolate lights for fine-tuning, and duplicate scenes in real-time. Offers seamless RGB to Kelvin and Mired conversions.
- Precise color and brightness adjustments
- Copy/paste color settings
- Solo light control
- Easy scene duplication
- Real-time light feedback
- RGB to Kelvin and Mired conversion
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Say goodbye to imprecise sliders and color pickers, and embrace precise control over your HomeKit scenes. With Home Lights Pro, you can adjust the brightness, hue, saturation, RGB and color temperature values of the lights in your scenes with pinpoint accuracy. Copy / Paste Color Settings: Found the perfect color setting? Home Lights Pro lets you copy it across multiple lights with a tap. Create a harmonious lighting environment throughout your home, effortlessly. Solo Lights: Ever struggled to figure out which light you're adjusting? Home Lights Pro makes it effortless. The identification feature lets you know exactly which light you're controlling, ensuring no more guesswork. Need to focus on one light? Easily 'solo' any light in your setup. Dim the rest and fine-tune your desired light without distractions. Perfect for setting up that ideal scene or adjusting a specific area of your home. Easy Scene Duplication: Creating and duplicating scenes is a breeze with Home Lights Pro. Start from an existing scene, make your tweaks, and save. It's that simple! Build a collection of scenes for every mood and occasion without starting from scratch. Real-Time Light Feedback: Unlike other apps, Home Lights Pro gives you real-time feedback as you perfect a scene. See the changes as they happen and save only when you're fully satisfied. RGB To Kelvin And Mired: Get creative with your lighting hues. The app offers advanced color temperature settings with an easy conversion between RGB, Kelvin and Mired. Home Lights Pro is the must-have companion to the Home app for anyone looking for perfection in their HomeKit scenes.
Hourly Journal
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Hourly Journal is a calm hourly check in journal for real life — a mood tracker, voice journaling app, energy tracker and stress journal in one place. Capture short journal entries every hour with mood, energy, stress, activity tags, photos and audio, then revisit your day and spot patterns without writing a novel. If long diary apps feel heavy, this is built for micro journaling: a quick mood log, an emotional check in, a feelings check in, or a short voice note when typing feels like too much. Open Hourly Journal, answer how the last hour went, and save. That is the whole habit. Why an hourly journal works Most journals ask for an evening essay. Life happens in hours. An hourly mood tracker and mood log hourly rhythm helps you notice what shifted after work, a walk, or a hard conversation — while the feeling is still fresh. Use it as a daily reflection journal, mindful moments journal, or quiet self awareness journal you can keep in under a minute. Hourly check in, made simple • Start an hourly check in for the current hour • Log mood with clear emotion choices • Track energy level and stress level on gentle sliders • Tag activity with an activity mood journal style chip • Write a short reflection — or skip text and still save • Add a photo for journal with photos / photo journaling • Record audio for journal with audio, voice journaling, or an audio diary journal moment Hourly Journal works as a voice journal app free experience for quick capture, and as a focused energy tracker app when you care more about vitality than paragraphs. It also supports a stress journal habit when pressure rises across the day. Voice journaling when words are hard Some hours need a voice journaling app more than a keyboard. Record, stop, and keep the clip with that hour. Whether you wanted a voice journal app, voice journaling app, or voice journal app free, the goal is the same: speak the check-in, save it, move on. Pair voice with a quick mood log and you still get structured data for later insights. Photos that mark the hour Attach a photo to remember the moment. Photo journal app style capture sits beside mood and notes — useful when a picture says more than a sentence. Use journal with photos for visual memory without a social feed. Mood, energy and stress together A mood journal is useful. Pairing it with an energy mood tracker and stress level tracker makes patterns clearer. See whether evenings look calmer, mornings spike, or exercise hours show a different energy tracker signal. Mood energy tracker views connect activity, feelings check in data and stress journal trends without spreadsheets. History and insights Browse past days, open any hour, and edit later. Consistency becomes visible: filled hours, missing hours, and your week’s story. Over time, Hourly Journal surfaces mood trends, tougher days, stronger hours and activity patterns — calm feedback for a daily reflection journal habit, not a score that judges you. Who it is for • Anyone who wants an hourly mood tracker without complicated setup • People who prefer voice journaling or photo journaling over long essays • Users looking for an emotional check in or feelings check in habit on busy days • Anyone tracking energy and stress alongside mood • Beginners who want micro journaling and short journal entries that stick Start your first hour Install Hourly Journal, set your name and wake rhythm, then log one hourly check in today. Add mood. Optionally add voice journaling or a photo. Save. Tomorrow, do it again. Small hourly journal moments become a clearer map of how you feel, where energy goes, and which hours deserve more care. Hourly Journal — a practical hourly journal time tracker for mood, voice, photos, energy and stress, built for honest check-ins without the weight of a traditional diary.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Home Lights Pro at 17.0 against Hourly Journal's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Home Lights Pro | Hourly Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arcana Media | Athar Gul Zaman |
In-app purchases
Home Lights Pro
No in-app purchases
Hourly Journal
No in-app purchases
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