Comparison

HomeGoods vs HomeSense

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

HomeSense

Transform your iPhone or iPad into a central hub for your smart home. Seamlessly integrate and manage devices from various brands, including lights, thermostats, and audio systems. Enjoy a convenient overview of your entire home and control individual devices or create custom scenes.

Highlights
  • Centralized smart home control
  • Integrates with multiple brands
  • Device and room overview
  • Customizable scenes and favorites
  • Today widget for quick access
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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HomeSense turns your iPhone or iPad into a command center for your automated home. HomeSense supports Caséta Wireless, Lutron RadioRA 2, Lutron RadioRA 3, Lutron HomeWorks QS, Philips Hue Personal Wireless Lighting, Sonos speakers, Honeywell Lyric Thermostat and HomeKit, providing seamless integration between these systems. See the state of your connected devices, rooms, and convenient summary of your whole home with the base version, and upgrade to control lights, fans, shades, thermostats, edit schedule and more. With Notification Center widget, favorites, home and room scenes, HomeSense is flexible, convenient and easy to use. Please note that device control and editing for scenes and schedules requires a purchase. Common Features - See and control lights, ceiling fans, shades, blinds and thermostats from the application. - Home overview shows the state of every room and makes it easy to see what rooms have lights or fans on. - Add often used controls or scenes to the Favorites. Any light, fan, shade, or even individual keypad button can be added to Favorites to appear on a separate screen. Tap to toggle, or tap and hold to open the detail view. - Create your own home and room scenes that can combine devices from different systems. - Turn off all lights and fans in a room with a single gesture - just choose “All Off” action on the room. - Set up additional actions for a room to be recalled quickly from actions menu. - Organize your home: manage rooms, rename controls and keypad buttons, hide unwanted devices. - Today widget lets you access selected controls or scenes without launching the app. - Change switch type - choose if switch controls an outlet, light or fan. - Adjust device defaults - set default brightness, fade-in and fade-out time for dimmers, set default speed for fans. - iCloud sync keeps your home configuration up-to-date on all of your devices. Caséta Wireless Features - View and edit Pico button programming and scheduled events. Lutron RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS Features - View and edit keypad button programming, scheduled events and thermostat schedules. - Change schedule and energy saving (“Green”) mode. Philips Hue Features - View and edit scheduled events, including events relative to sunrise or sunset. HomeKit Features - Supported devices include outlets, switches, lights, fans, shades, blinds, thermostats, door locks, garage door openers, faucets, and sensors. - Scheduled events support both weekly events, as well as time triggers with repeat intervals, from 5 minutes up to one month. Sonos Features - Play, pause, and control volume. - Select a playlist or a station to play from your Sonos favorites. - Group speakers to play music to more than one rooms. Requirements - For Caséta Wireless, Smart Bridge or Smart Bridge Pro connected to home WiFi network. - For Lutron, professionally installed system connected to home WiFi network. - For Philips Hue, Philips Hue lights with bridge connected to home WiFi network. - For Lyric, Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat, Lyric T5 or Lyric T6 Pro Wi-Fi Thermostat with working Internet connection. Trademarks Lutron, HomeWorks, RadioRA are trademarks of Lutron Electronics Co., Inc registered in the US and other countries. Caséta, RadioRA 2, RadioRA 3, GRAFIK RA are trademarks of Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Lyric, Lyric Round are trademarks of Honeywell International Inc. PHILIPS is a registered trademark of Koninklijke Philips N.V. Sonos and Sonos product names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonos, Inc.

Screenshots

HomeGoods4 screens
HomeSense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HomeSense at 50% against HomeGoods's 6%. HomeSense also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). HomeGoods's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 77). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HomeSense sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. HomeGoods asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HomeSense holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeGoods has 2.1K ratings behind it against 77, 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 50% of HomeSense's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeGoods ships an update every 3 months, HomeSense every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HomeGoods versus HomeSense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeGoodsHomeSense
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (2.1K ratings)4.4 (77 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.1K — better77
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHomeGoodsRevery Codes

Customer experience

HomeGoods

All ratings2,118 ratings
Positive37.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative55.4%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive6.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative90.1%

HomeSense

All ratings77 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

HomeSense

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

HomeGoods

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

HomeSense

Subscriptions2
  • HomeSense One Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • HomeSense One Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Control Access for Honeywell Lyric$4.99
  • Control Access for Sonos$7.99
  • Control Access for Philips Hue$9.99
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  • Control Access for Lutron$19.99
  • Control Access for Caséta Wireless$19.99

Questions

Is HomeGoods free?
HomeGoods is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HomeSense free?
HomeSense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HomeGoods or HomeSense?
HomeSense is rated higher. HomeGoods averages 2.6 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while HomeSense averages 4.4 from 77 ratings.
Do HomeGoods or HomeSense have ads?
Neither HomeGoods nor HomeSense shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeGoods or HomeSense?
HomeGoods ships an update every 3 months, and HomeSense every 5 weeks. Most recently, HomeGoods was updated on September 24, 2026 and HomeSense on September 10, 2026.

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