HomeGoods vs dear.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeGoods
Easily manage your TJX Rewards, access and redeem gift cards digitally, and find store locations with hours and directions. Discover savings on unique home goods.
- Manage TJX Rewards digitally
- Check points balance
- Access TJX Rewards credit card
- Upload and redeem gift cards
- Scan gift cards in-store
- Find nearby stores
- Check store hours and get directions
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Welcome to the HomeGoods app! You already love to save on amazing finds at HomeGoods. Now our updated app makes it even easier! Here’s how it works: Manage your Rewards - Explore our enhanced TJX Rewards experience! Now it’s easier than ever to access your earned Rewards Certificates digitally, check your points balance, manage your TJX Rewards credit card account on-the-go, and redeem your rewards in-store. Access Gift Cards Upload, buy, and scan to redeem in store. Yes, it’s that easy! Find Your Closest Store Get directions, check open hours, and more.
dear.
Digitally preserve and organize your cherished cards. Scan them to create a digital collection, sort by various criteria, and even generate PDFs. Never lose a memory again, even if you decide to discard the physical card.
- Scan and store cards digitally
- Organize cards by year, event, or category
- Create and share PDF collections
- Edit card details and images
- Create user profiles and card collections
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Open a sweet birthday card and don’t know what to do with it? Throw it away? Keep it in a box under your bed where it’s never to be seen again? Organize and preserve those memories with dear. Scan and keep all your cards in one place. Organize cards by year, event, holiday, category, person, or any other way you can think of. Create and share PDFs for your scans. Now you don’t have to feel bad about tossing that birthday card from Aunt Sally. To get started begin with the following steps: • Create a user profile • Create your first card collection • Create and scan your first cards • Upload a collection image • Edit a Card in the following ways: • Scan new images • Update the "from" field • Update the description field Thank you for using dear. Please email support@thedearapp.com with feedback or any questions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: dear. at 100% against HomeGoods's 6%. dear. also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). HomeGoods's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 39) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). 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.
dear. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeGoods has 2.1K ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of HomeGoods's written reviews are positive against 100% of dear.'s.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeGoods | dear. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (39 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HomeGoods | dearly LLC |
Customer experience
HomeGoods
dear.
Bugs and requests
HomeGoods
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes frequently
- Login and store selection issues
Requested features
3 requests- Add online shopping and delivery options
- Implement robust product search and browsing
- Improve app usability and navigation
dear.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HomeGoods
No in-app purchases
dear.
No in-app purchases









