HomeSense vs Weiser Premis Smart Lock
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.
Weiser Premis Smart Lock
Control your smart lock remotely and manage user access. Integrate with Apple HomeKit for voice commands via Siri and monitor lock activity from anywhere.
- Siri Voice Control
- Remote Access
- Lock Monitoring
- User Code Management
- Scheduled Access
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Download the Premis app for use with the Premis Touchscreen Smart Lock, made by Weiser. This app will guide you through the installation, set up, and overall customization of your Premis Smart Lock. This lock and app will work with the Apple HomeKit platform so you can use your iPhone, iPad, or iTouch to control and manage your lock! • Siri® Voice Control – Lock and unlock your door using Siri voice commands. For example, “Siri unlock my front door.” • Remote Access – Control and monitor lock status from anywhere using the Premis app and Apple TV®. • Lock Monitoring – View lock activity, history, and status notifications when lock is used via the Premis App • User Code Management – Easily send, add, delete, or disable user codes. Schedule access for certain times/days.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HomeSense at 50% against Weiser Premis Smart Lock's 3%. HomeSense also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 35 months). Weiser Premis Smart Lock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Weiser Premis Smart Lock asks for nothing beyond the download.
HomeSense holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeSense has 77 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of HomeSense's written reviews are positive against 3% of Weiser Premis Smart Lock's.
HomeSense ships an update every 5 weeks, Weiser Premis Smart Lock every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeSense | Weiser Premis Smart Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (77 ratings) — better | 1.5 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 3.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revery Codes | Weiser Lock Corporation |
Customer experience
HomeSense
Weiser Premis Smart Lock
Bugs and requests
HomeSense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Weiser Premis Smart Lock
Reported bugs
21 issues- Constantly goes offline
- App crashes
- Lock unavailable
- Wifi issues
- Remote access not working
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- Battery drain
- App not connecting
- Lock not detected
- Random connection failures
- Notifications not working
- Cannot lock door
- Losing locks
- Device pairing issues
- User invitation failure
- Low battery readings inaccurate
- Remote connection lost
- Cloud sync errors
- Touchscreen malfunctions
- App resets settings
- Incompatibility with iOS versions (13, 15, 16, 26)
- HomeKit integration problems
Requested features
9 requests- Update app for latest iOS versions
- Improve remote access reliability
- Fix HomeKit integration issues
- Provide timely app and firmware updates
- Improve battery life alerts
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- Allow sharing devices with multiple users
- Update app for iPhone X screen size
- Add new features
- Fix the ability to switch homes on iOS 13
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
Weiser Premis Smart Lock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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