Comparison

HomeSense vs YNOT Now

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

YNOT Now

This premium dating app prioritizes user privacy and combats dating app fatigue with unique features. It offers unlimited visible likes, temporary matches that expire, and a commitment to not selling user data, fostering genuine connections.

Highlights
  • Unlimited and visible likes
  • Temporary matches
  • No match backlogs
  • Total privacy
  • Enhanced security
  • Free core features
Features
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YNOT Now is a high-end, premium dating app that redefines modern romance by eliminating paywalls on core features, banning data selling, using basic tools to increase privacy and introducing temporary matches. All connections being temporary helps solve app fatigue and visibility imbalances. By making all sent likes visible, YNOT Now creates a sense of urgency meant to drive real connection. The YNOT Now Philosophy Free Expected Features: Enjoy core features and basic communication services for free. Total Privacy: Your personal data stays secure and is never sold to third-party brokers. Enhanced Security: Advanced verification ensures a safe, authentic dating pool. Key Features & Innovation Unlimited & Visible Likes: Send as many likes as you want, and always see who liked you. Temporary Matches: All matches expire after a set time to create real urgency and spark actual conversations. No Match Backlogs: The temporary design stops women from drowning in old likes, giving new profiles a fair chance to be seen. Why App Stores Love Us User-First Ethics: Transparent monetization and strong data privacy excede modern privacy guidelines. Combats Burnout: Innovative expiration mechanics solve the dual problem of end-users just collecting likes, and those earnestly looking unable to be seen due to sheer amount of old collected like. High Engagement: Built-in urgency drives genuine in-app activity over passive hoarding.

Screenshots

HomeSense4 screens
YNOT Now4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: YNOT Now at 5.0 against HomeSense's 4.3. YNOT Now also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). HomeSense's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1). 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. HomeSense sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and YNOT Now sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

YNOT Now holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeSense has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeSense ships an update every 5 weeks, YNOT Now daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HomeSense versus YNOT Now: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeSenseYNOT Now
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (80 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings80 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRevery CodesYNOT Now Labs LLC

Customer experience

HomeSense

All ratings77 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

YNOT Now

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

HomeSense

Subscriptions2
  • HomeSense One Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • HomeSense One Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • 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
10 purchases

YNOT Now

One-time10
  • Extend Chat Time$1.99
  • 7 Approaches$3.99
  • 1 Bump$3.99
Show 7 more
  • 1 Month Premium$9.99
  • 25 Approaches$11.99
  • 6 Bumps$14.99
  • 50 Approaches$19.99
  • 12 Bumps$26.99
  • 6 Months Premium$49.99
  • 12 Months Premium$69.99

Questions

Is HomeSense free?
HomeSense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is YNOT Now free?
YNOT Now is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HomeSense or YNOT Now?
YNOT Now is rated higher. HomeSense averages 4.3 out of 5 from 80 ratings, while YNOT Now averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HomeSense or YNOT Now have ads?
Neither HomeSense nor YNOT Now shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeSense or YNOT Now?
HomeSense ships an update every 5 weeks, and YNOT Now daily. Most recently, HomeSense was updated on October 24, 2026 and YNOT Now on October 16, 2026.

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