Home+ 6 vs emblazee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home+ 6
This app enhances smart home control and management through advanced automation capabilities. It allows users to access all accessory characteristics, utilize widgets for quick control, and customize their smart home environment with wallpapers. The app also offers backup and restore functionality for HomeKit configurations.
- Powerful automations beyond the native Home app
- Access all accessory characteristics
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Smart home customization with wallpapers
- Backup and restore HomeKit configuration
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Home+ 6 is a full-featured HomeKit app which makes working with HomeKit easier. Home+ lets you control, manage and automate your smart home like never before. - You can create powerful automations which are not possible with the Home app. - You can access all characteristics of an accessory - You can control your accessories from your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets. - You can customise your smart home with wallpapers. - You can backup and restore your HomeKit configuration in case you need to. Home+ is a one-time purchase for your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
emblazee
Control your HomeKit compatible lights from your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Organize your lights into homes, rooms, zones, and groups, and create custom scenes. Automate your lighting with time-based triggers and voice commands via Siri.
- HomeKit light control
- Create rooms, zones, and groups
- Custom scene creation
- Time-based scene triggers
- Siri voice commands
- Apple Watch support
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emblazee lets you control your HomeKit compatible lights on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. You can manage your homes and create rooms, zones, groups and scenes. In addition, you can create triggers that activate your scenes at defined times. You can control your Lights, Rooms, Groups or Scenes with Siri. For example you can turn on your Living Room if you say: "Hey Siri, turn on lights in the Living Room". Follow emblazee on social to stay updated. Facebook: www.facebook.com/emblazee Twitter: @emblazee
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: emblazee at $0.99 against Home+ 6's $14.99. emblazee also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (75% vs 57%). Home+ 6's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.9) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On ads 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
Home+ 6 costs $14.99 and emblazee $0.99 up front. Home+ 6 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. emblazee asks for nothing beyond the download.
Home+ 6 holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home+ 6 has 1K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Home+ 6's written reviews are positive against 75% of emblazee's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Home+ 6 ships an update monthly, emblazee every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home+ 6 | emblazee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (1K ratings) — better | 3.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.2% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #117 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthias Hochgatterer | Marcel Dittmann |
Customer experience
Home+ 6
emblazee
In-app purchases
Home+ 6
- Nice Tip$1.99
- Kind Tip$4.99
- Generous Tip$14.99
emblazee
No in-app purchases
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