HomeSense vs Sense Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Sense Home
Gain real-time insights into your home's energy consumption to reduce electricity bills and minimize environmental impact. Identify energy-wasting devices and receive custom notifications for enhanced home safety and efficiency.
- Real-time energy consumption monitoring
- Identify energy-wasting devices
- Personalized energy-saving tips
- Customizable real-time notifications
- Remote home monitoring
- Carbon footprint reduction
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→ Take control of your home energy use, in real time. Sense turns your home's electrical activity into real-time insight, so you can use energy more efficiently, spend less, and stay ahead of your electric bill. → Save energy. Save money. Most people only find out what they used once the bill arrives, when it’s too late to change anything. Sense shows you how much energy your home is using right now and how this month compares with the last, straight from your phone. You’ll see what’s driving your bill, get tips that fit your home, and start reacting less and planning more. → Find your home’s energy hogs. Minimize what you waste. A lot of devices in your home draw power even when they're off: some by design, some because they've grown less efficient over time. Sense helps you find what's quietly running in the background, so you can decide what's worth unplugging, fixing, or replacing. → Get real-time notifications. Keep your home running the way it should. Peace of mind starts with knowing. Worried about heavy rain? Get notified if your sump pump stops running. Forgot the oven was on? Sense will tell you. Customize your alerts so the people and things you care about stay looked after. → Check in from anywhere. Know what's happening at home. Whether you're at the office, running errands, or spending time with family, the Sense app keeps you connected: what's on, what it's costing, and whether anything needs your attention. → Small changes. Real impact. Understanding your home's energy use is one of the clearest ways to cut waste and lower your footprint. Sense gives you the visibility to make smarter choices, so saving energy and doing right by the planet can be the same thing. → Customer support Website: https://help.sense.com Submit a Ticket: sense.com/contact
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sense Home at none against HomeSense's 7. Sense Home also leads on ratings volume (2.3K vs 80) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). HomeSense's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 39%). On price, rating, ads 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. HomeSense sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sense Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sense Home holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sense Home has 2.3K ratings behind it against 80, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of HomeSense's written reviews are positive against 39% of Sense Home's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HomeSense ships an update every 5 weeks, Sense Home fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | HomeSense | Sense Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (80 ratings) | 4.5 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 39.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 80 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revery Codes | Sense Labs, Inc. |
Customer experience
HomeSense
Sense Home
Bugs and requests
HomeSense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sense Home
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes and freezes
- Notifications not working as expected
- Inaccurate device identification
- Sync issues between app and hardware
- Frequent disconnections from network
Requested features
6 requests- Allow manual device labeling
- Improve billing cycle tracking
- Add voltage and current monitoring
- Provide more detailed energy usage data
- Integrate with more smart home platforms
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- Offer Ethernet connectivity option
In-app purchases
HomeSense
- HomeSense One Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- HomeSense One Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- 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
Sense Home
No in-app purchases









