Comparison

LazyBone BLE vs Tap Relay

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

Head to head
About

LazyBone BLE

Control electrical devices like lamps and routers remotely using your smartphone via Bluetooth. This app provides an easy-to-use interface for managing power on/off for various appliances.

Highlights
  • Remote device power control
  • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Control lamps, routers, fans, and more
  • Stable performance
Features
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Do you want to control any electrical device on/off by your smart phone? If you also have this idea, ok, this 'Lazy Bone' is exactly what you need. ‘Lazy Bone’ is a new product of TinySine Electronics, which has a good performance of stablity and it's very easy to use. It can control a lamp, router, fan and other electrical equipments on and off by your iphone or ipad.This is a bluetooth APP for BLE lazybone.

About

Tap Relay

Features
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Press the button. Fire the webhook. That's it. Tap Relay turns your iPhone into a portable bridge between a Flic Bluetooth button and any HTTPS webhook endpoint. Press the button, the phone fires a POST, your backend gets the event. No hub required. Works wherever your phone works. Setup is one QR scan. The official Flic app makes you type webhook URLs on a phone keyboard, hand-format JSON headers, and navigate deep menus to wire everything together. One typo and the whole thing silently breaks. Tap Relay does it differently. Your endpoint provider generates a QR code with the webhook URL, auth token, and button binding pre-configured. You scan it. You're done. Setup time: under five seconds. Built to survive the background. Most webhook apps die quietly when iOS gets aggressive with memory. Tap Relay uses Core Bluetooth State Restoration and background URLSession the way Apple intended — so even if the app gets evicted, the next button press wakes it up and fires the webhook anyway. Lightweight, single-purpose, no consumer-app bloat. Behaves more like a system daemon than an app. Made for the people who need it most. Developers wiring Flic buttons into Zapier, Make.com, Home Assistant, or their own PWA Mobile professionals — field techs, real estate agents, delivery drivers — who need the button to work away from home, not just inside HomeKit range SaaS platforms shipping pre-provisioned hardware to non-technical end users Anyone who wants a clean, reliable, single-purpose alternative to the official Flic experience What's inside Pair any Flic 2 button via the official Flic iOS SDK Scan a backend-signed QR code to provision the webhook target in one tap Fire HTTPS POST requests on press, double-press, and hold events Background-survivable BLE via Core Bluetooth State Restoration Reliable delivery via background URLSession (webhooks complete even if you put your phone in your pocket) HMAC-verified QR payloads (no risk of a malicious QR rebinding your button) Keychain-stored credentials (your tokens never sit in plain text) Live event log so you can see exactly what fired and when Test-fire button to confirm the pipeline end-to-end Privacy and security Tap Relay sends button events directly from your phone to your configured webhook. No third-party cloud relay. No analytics. Your tokens never leave your device except in the outbound POST to your endpoint. Not affiliated with Shortcut Labs. Tap Relay is an independent utility for Flic button owners. Flic® is a registered trademark of Shortcut Labs AB. This app uses the official Flic iOS SDK but is not made, endorsed, or supported by Shortcut Labs. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://taprelay-web.pages.dev/privacy.html

Screenshots

LazyBone BLE2 screens
Tap Relay3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LazyBone BLE at 8.0 against Tap Relay's 17.6. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LazyBone BLE versus Tap Relay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLazyBone BLETap Relay
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer飞 吴ALLEN STURDIVANT

In-app purchases

None

LazyBone BLE

No in-app purchases

None

Tap Relay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LazyBone BLE free?
LazyBone BLE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tap Relay free?
Tap Relay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LazyBone BLE or Tap Relay have ads?
Neither LazyBone BLE nor Tap Relay shows ads.

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