Comparison

iHere 3 vs Sengled Home

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

Head to head
About

iHere 3

This app helps you locate misplaced items like keys and your phone within a 75-foot range. It also functions as a remote camera shutter and voice recorder, allowing you to capture moments from a distance.

Highlights
  • Find keys and other items
  • Locate your iPhone
  • Save and find your car's location
  • Remote camera shutter
  • Remote voice recorder
Features
Read full description

The iHere gadget combines with the iHere3 app to help you find your most important items easily within a 75-foot range. iHere also offers a remote camera shutter and remote voice recorder function to help you capture important memories. 1) Find your keys: Attach iHere to your keys or any item. Tap the item you wish to find on the iHere3 app to ring iHere. iHere also will beep when you are moving 2) Find your iPhone: Press the button on iHere to ring your iPhone. This works even when your phone has been muted. 3) Locate your car: Click the button on iHere to save your car's location to the iHere3 app before leaving your car. Later, use the app to locate your car. 4) Take photos remotely: Take the perfect photo and selfie. No need to stretch your arms or ask someone. Click the button on iHere to remotely control your device's camera. 5) Record voice remotely: Click the button on iHere to control your device's voice recorder remotely. Easily record voice memos, music and performances from a distance without holding your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Sengled Home

Control and manage all your smart home devices from a single app. Adjust colors, set schedules, and automate actions based on sensor events. Integrate with voice assistants for seamless control.

Highlights
  • Remote control of smart devices
  • Customizable color and temperature settings
  • Room and device grouping
  • Sensor-triggered automation
  • Scheduling and scene creation
  • Wake-up and sleep routines
  • Integration with voice assistants
Features
Read full description

Sengled Home is the latest smart home control app that replaces the earlier version -- Element Home. Sengled Home is a residential smart-products management platform, which provides you with an integrated mobile app to control, manage and monitor your Sengled smart products. With easy set-up, Sengled Home is able to quickly connect your smart products to the Internet, implement real-time communication between your cell phone and household devices through the cloud platform, and achieve remote controlling and monitoring. Moreover, it is able to customize a fully automatic control system based on your personal habits. CONTROL YOUR LIGHTS FROM ANYWHERE ON THIS PLANET Either 1 foot away from your Sengled smart device, or 10,000 miles away from your home, as long as you have internet, you can control or check the status of your devices. COLOR, COLOR TEMPERATURE AND BEYOND Transform your mobile device into a color palette, and your bulbs, your canvas. Choose from 16 million colors—or choose from Warm White to Day Light—and change the colors of your bulbs to match any mood you have. ROOM ARRANGEMENT AND GROUPING Sengled Home App enables you to easily bundle your smart LED lightbulbs into pre-set rooms, or create your own user defined rooms for grouping purposes. FRONT PAGE OR WIDGET CONTROLS MOST OF YOUR DEVICES With a simplified and optimized UI design, you can access and control most of the functions from the front page of the Sengled Home App. Scene control and Mobile home page Widget control even makes this process easier. SMART LED GETS SMARTER WITH SENSORS Sengled smart LED lights with built-in motion sensor can not only push notifications for any motion event, but also setup actions after detecting motion events. For example, turn on the lights in your bedroom when motion is detected in your backyard in the middle of the night. Sengled smart door sensor can also be used to link with your smart LED lights for event triggered actions. SCHEDULES, SCENES AND ROUTINES Either setup daily routines, such as waking or sleeping routines, for the convenience, or setup automation routines, such as turning lights on/off when sensor events were detected. Scenes can be created for multi bulb or multi room control. WAKE UP & SLEEP Sengled smart LED bulbs can be programmed for gradual brightening and wake you up with lights naturally. Sleep schedule will control the Sengled smart LED bulbs in night light for delayed dimming. LIGHT EFFECTS Six light effects would help users to have more fun with their Sengled products during parties or holidays like Halloween and Christmas. 3rd PARTY PROGRAM: After configuring the Sengled Home App, all the settings can be easily ported over to 3rd party programs, like IFTTT. You can expand your home automation with many more capabilities. HELP WITH ALEXA, GOOGLE ASSISTANT, APPLE HOMEKIT AND MORE: In-app help page can walk you through the process of setting up Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, and more. SAVE ENERGY Every time you turn your Sengled smart device on or off, an event will be logged. You can check the performance page to see your cumulative power consumption for different devices. Contact us: Our development needs your support. Your opinions and suggestions will be appreciated. Want to know more about Sengled smart products? Follow us on: Official Site: sengled.com Facebook: @Sengled Twitter: @SengledUSA Instagram: sengled YouTube: Sengled WeChat: Sengled生迪

Screenshots

iHere 33 screens
Sengled Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sengled Home at 2.7 against iHere 3's 2.3. Sengled Home also leads on ratings volume (8.8K vs 34). iHere 3's advantage is review sentiment (30% vs 9%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sengled Home holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sengled Home has 8.8K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of iHere 3's written reviews are positive against 9% of Sengled Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iHere 3 ships an update fortnightly, Sengled Home monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iHere 3 versus Sengled Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriHere 3Sengled Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (34 ratings)2.7 (8.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews30.4% of reviews — better9.2% of reviews
Number of ratings348.8K — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNo NDA IncSengled Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

iHere 3

All ratings34 ratings
Positive29.4%
Neutral8.8%
Negative61.8%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive30.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative55.4%

Sengled Home

All ratings6,825 ratings
Positive52.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative43.8%
Written reviews1,472 reviews
Positive9.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative88.5%

User reviews

iHere 3

From 34 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Rechargeable fobs are useful
  • 👍 Works well for finding lost keys
  • 👍 Loud beep compared to competitors
  • 👍 Can find phone with device
  • 👍 Can find keys with phone

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Defective products frequently
  • 🐛 Hard to configure
  • 🐛 WiFi switching issues
  • 🐛 Frequent connection drops
  • 🐛 Poor customer service

Sengled Home

From 8.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to set up
  • 👍 Convenient scheduling and automation
  • 👍 Good value for price
  • 👍 Reliable performance
  • 👍 Integrates well with smart home platforms

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Connectivity issues after updates
  • 🐛 Unreliable pairing and reconnection
  • 🐛 Limited color/brightness control
  • 🐛 Buggy app with frequent crashes
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns around location data

Bugs and requests

iHere 3

Reported bugs

39 issues
  • Device not charging
  • Flashing green and red light
  • Device not holding a charge
  • Device not working unless plugged in
  • Device not working after charging
Show 34 more
  • Device loses contact with phone
  • Device shows incorrect location
  • Separation alarm beeps continuously
  • App running in background after closing
  • Device does not ring when button is pressed
  • Inaccurate battery percentage display
  • Apple Watch app displays in Mandarin
  • Bluetooth connection is inconsistent
  • Device randomly starts beeping
  • Separation alarm cannot be turned off
  • Button press inadvertently triggers phone ring
  • App crashes during firmware update
  • App stuck in update loop
  • Last seen location is outdated
  • No separation warning provided
  • App crashes on launch
  • App constantly requests to pair
  • App keeps installing updates
  • New menu is incomplete
  • Cannot locate car on map
  • Cannot locate iPhone on map
  • App consumes high battery percentage
  • App crashes when using voice recorder
  • No more find phone option
  • Map locator function is confusing and buggy
  • Map shows phone location, not device location
  • App requires Bluetooth to be open to work
  • App stats won't work with Bluetooth 4
  • Update disconnected users from devices
  • App crashes on iOS 9
  • App crashes on new iPod touch
  • App crashes on iPhone 4s
  • Map locator screen is buggy and difficult to use
  • App requires constant re-pairing

Requested features

25 requests
  • Fix bugs with charging and battery life
  • Improve customer service response time
  • Allow use without mic and camera access
  • Allow location access only while using the app
  • Make button less prone to accidental triggers (e.g., 3 consecutive clicks)
Show 20 more
  • Provide a push notification for low battery
  • Adjustable distance for separation alerts
  • Fix Apple Watch app language issue
  • Add volume control
  • Turn off beeping when Bluetooth connects/disconnects
  • Improve car finding explanation/setup
  • Add time delay for selfies
  • Fix app crashing issues
  • Fix update loop issues
  • Improve map locator functionality
  • Show last seen location of the iHere device on the map
  • Allow app to work in background without being open
  • Fix issues with finding car and iPhone on map
  • Fix voice recorder crash
  • Add find phone option back
  • Improve UI navigation
  • Add FAQ access within the app
  • Fix pairing and update installation issues
  • Fix issues with Bluetooth 4 compatibility
  • Allow turning off the 'phone finder' feature

Sengled Home

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent disconnection from WiFi
  • Inability to add or control new devices
  • Incorrect error messages and failed operations
  • Syncing issues between app and physical bulbs

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved app UI and UX
  • More granular control over lighting
  • Restore missing widget functionality
  • Better integration with third-party platforms
  • Reliable customer support

In-app purchases

None

iHere 3

No in-app purchases

None

Sengled Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iHere 3 free?
iHere 3 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sengled Home free?
Sengled Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iHere 3 or Sengled Home?
Sengled Home is rated higher. iHere 3 averages 2.3 out of 5 from 34 ratings, while Sengled Home averages 2.7 from 8.8K ratings.
Do iHere 3 or Sengled Home have ads?
Neither iHere 3 nor Sengled Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iHere 3 or Sengled Home?
iHere 3 ships an update fortnightly, and Sengled Home monthly. Most recently, iHere 3 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sengled Home on October 25, 2026.

Other comparisons