Not even a free tier? - Delete
Don’t bother. Unless you want to pay, the app is nothing more than an ad for their “premium services.” Offering functionality that HomeKit should just have shouldn’t be hidden behind a paywall. Shame on Apple for letting this kind of sleaze pick up their slack, but that’s where we’re at in late stage capitalism.
Forget your “free trial.” If you’re not going to let me have a bit of basic functionality for free, yes free, with no expiration date, then no chance I’m giving you a dime. Instant delete.
Forget your “free trial.” If you’re not going to let me have a bit of basic functionality for free, yes free, with no expiration date, then no chance I’m giving you a dime. Instant delete.
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Pure Greed
$150 for an unlocked life time version and even then, when further upgrades are released they are paywalled behind a $60 a year “PLUS” version.
Not the sign of a company you want to invite into your home.
Not the sign of a company you want to invite into your home.
Broken app
Was great until recently. Now notifications don’t work at all. And I pay for a premium subscription. 😒
Previously good, now pure cash grab
The newest version completely locks you out unless you buy the subscription. Doesn’t matter if you have made purchases before. Unacceptable.
Bait and Switch
Pay for a lifetime subscription, then offered a yearly subscription “upgrade” for what you already paid for. Stay away.
Misleading, nothing over the free apple home version
Tried the free trial, took money immediately and then… its rubbish. E.g. For homekit power extensions you cannot see the individual sockets, its juts all in or all off.
Cancelled immediately and contacting apple for refund.
Cancelled immediately and contacting apple for refund.
Can’t exit without starting a subscription
Sometimes you find an app that is uniquely annoying. Opaque pricing requires you to install the app to find out how much it costs. And then the developer blocks quitting the app until you agree to a 7 day trial. Had to kill -9 the thing to get it to close so it could be uninstalled.
Expand Apple Home’s Capabilities
This app is a great extension of Apple Home’s capabilities. It has allowed me to create more complex Automations with multiple conditions not possible just using the Apple Home app. The backup feature is also nice to have, especially if you have spent a lot of time customizing your setup. The recent addition of Workflows really ups the capabilities even further. I use an old iPad to run Workflows I have created using this app. What I like about the Workflows is that they run on the dedicated iPad, taking some load off of the Apple Home hub. The workflows allow If/then/else conditions, loops, and even more capabilities. All of these additional capabilities would not be valuable if the Workflows didn’t run reliably. But they do run reliably on my dedicated iPad! I have been using this app for years now and highly recommend it. It is the next logical step forward from the Apple Home app as your home’s setup expands. It doesn’t replace the Apple Home app, it complements it.
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Found Another!
I like many brought lifetime licence and now new features no access! Feel ripped off if honest and like others, I’d pay a little to bump up lifetime licence but no option! Prefer Apple Home visuals now and have dumped this app…..shame …. Greed is short term guys.
This App is MUST HAVE for Apple Home Users
Almost everything that Apple left out is in Controller for HomeKit. This is a serious app that is very easy to use along sideApple Home. Track down issues, logs, WAY, WAY better automation control in Workflows, in app states, great support … the list goes on. No Apple Home user should go without this app. P.S. not to be stereotypical about our Controller for HomeKit developers, but this app drips with solid German engineering.
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fake
says it’s free but needs a subscription to access it
Amazing
Best app to help with Apple HomeKit automations scenes and workflows could not be happier. Is a game changer simply amazing.
Paywall prevents app closure
Can’t even close the app because their macOS paywall has no close button; ridiculous this passed the review process by apple or the developer. Wasted 90 seconds of my life having to open activity monitor to force close the app since they couldn’t be bothered to test what they ship.
NOT FREE!!!
You can’t do anything without signing up for payment, Apple should really let you now that before you download. What’s worse, is after you first open the app, you can not normally quoting without agreeing to pay, you end up having to force quit the application. Major FAIL!!!!!
Update 9.0.1 messes up camera sorting
I updated to 9.0.1 and it has broken the ability to sort my camera order. I am able to sort them but when I click done the settings do nothing to the order of my cameras. Worked great before the update.
Amazing app
The most powerful HomeKit app there is.
SPAM marketing notifications
Recently, I got a pop-up notification with spam marketing from their app. I’ve reached out multiple times to their support team asking how this can be disabled with zero response. I regret spending money on this app.
Quitting on start-up
It’s a great app but the last couple of versions do not load on any of my devices and quit right at start-up. This happens on my iPhone16 Pro Max, My iPad M2 and my Mac Studio M2, all of which are running the latest OS’s respectively.
Pay out the nose forever
I love the app, but I hate the subscription model - $40/year is outrageous - so bye-bye!
Update deleted all Apple Watch scenes
Just when the button order by was fixed, a different update has now deleted all of the Apple Watch scenes.
