HomeSense vs Hubitat
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.
Hubitat
Control and monitor your smart home devices remotely. Set up location-based automation and receive important alerts directly to your phone. This app enhances your existing home automation system.
- Access Dashboards
- Monitor and control devices
- Arm/disarm Safety Monitor
- Change Modes
- Define Geofence for Presence
- Receive Push Notifications
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Hubitat Elevation Mobile App is an accessory to the Hubitat Elevation home automation system. Users of Hubitat Elevation can use the Mobile App to: - Access Dashboards to monitor and control devices, arm or disarm Hubitat Safety Monitor, change Modes and more. - Define a Geofence for Mobile Presence detection based on phone location. The Geofence center defaults to your hub location but can be dragged to any location and the radius set. - Receive Push Notifications from Hubitat Elevation apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HomeSense at 4.4 against Hubitat's 2.8. HomeSense also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 28%). Hubitat's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Hubitat asks for nothing beyond the download.
HomeSense holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 163 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of HomeSense's written reviews are positive against 28% of Hubitat's.
HomeSense ships an update every 5 weeks, Hubitat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeSense | Hubitat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (77 ratings) — better | 2.8 (163 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 28.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 163 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 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 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Revery Codes | Hubitat, Inc. |
Customer experience
HomeSense
Hubitat
Bugs and requests
HomeSense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hubitat
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup consistently
- Geofence detection fails to send events to hub
- Geofence shows incorrect location (off by km)
- Login screen keyboard covers continue button
- App hangs at 'Loading User Data' screen
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- Dashboard doesn't load after backgrounding
- Local LAN mode not working, stuck on cloud
- Hub discovery doesn't work on iOS
- Duplicate rooms and devices displayed
- Incorrect device status reporting
- Notifications show 'invalid token' error
- App doesn't support screen rotation
- Email verification code not received
- Presence detection broken after updates
- App unable to connect to hub after updates
- Geofence size resets to default
- What's New screen cannot be dismissed
- Layout issues with overlapping buttons on iPhone 7
Requested features
15 requests- Native iOS app with proper UI/UX design
- Dark mode option
- Widget support for quick device access
- Ability to add/discover devices from mobile app
- Automation and scene creation from app
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- iPad landscape view support
- Drag-and-drop dashboard tile customization
- Multiple geofence locations
- Motion sensor activity logging in dashboard
- Improved dashboard responsiveness and layout
- Manual IP address entry for hub connection
- SMS-based account verification
- Battery usage optimization for geofencing
- Real-time notifications with better visibility
- Detailed user manual and in-app help
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
Hubitat
No in-app purchases









