# Home Control – Explained — Your home, explained

> Your home, explained (iPhone/iPad app by Krister Hagman.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/home-control-explained/id6819718217 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Krister Hagman](https://appshunter.io/developer/6819718219)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish
- Released: 2026-10-27
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is Home Control?

Home Control is a HomeKit app that understands your home. It shows everything at a glance, explains why things happen, warns you before small problems become big ones, and helps the house run itself — on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch.

YOUR HOME AT A GLANCE
• A dashboard of what's going on now: what isn't working, lights on, low batteries, away and holiday mode, the price of electricity
• Your home as a floor plan — drawn, scanned with LiDAR or imported — with every light and sensor where it really is
• Lights by floor and room, with a dimmer and switch for each
• Climate per room with history, outdoor weather, rain and wind from a Netatmo station, and the week ahead
• Your calendar and shopping list from Reminders on the start screen

INSIGHTS: WHAT CHANGED, WHY, WHAT TO DO
• A daily briefing of what needs attention, and nothing when nothing does
• "Why?" on every device: what last changed it and how sure that is — also through Siri
• Comfort per room, damp and mould risk at cold corners, CO₂, airing out when the air outside is drier
• Devices that drop out, and whether it was the device, its bridge, the router or the home hub
• Follow-ups a week after you act: did it help?
• In your own language, on every device

ENERGY AND PRICE
• Live spot prices and the cheapest hours ahead
• Price-smart heating: a degree warmer when electricity is cheap and cooler when it's dear, never outside your comfort range
• When to run the dishwasher and washing machine for the lowest cost
• Power use by device and room, measured or estimated

YOUR NETWORK (UniFi)
• Who's on which network and band, signal strength, and which devices are in use
• Alerts when a hub, bridge or camera drops off, and insights when the router restarts or the Wi‑Fi is crowded
• Guest Wi‑Fi with a code to scan, vouchers, and controls to restart the router or block a device
• Phones count as being home: location and Wi‑Fi together, so "everyone left" is never a GPS glitch

THE HOUSE RUNS ITSELF
• Rules that know who's home, the weather, the price and the time of day
• Scenes when each person comes home, and when the last one leaves
• Holiday mode that makes the house look lived in, and turns itself on when everyone is away
• Warmer evening light in the dark months, and Advent lights from the first Sunday of Advent
• A weekly note of what was unusual, and a morning postcard from a second home or a van

HEALTH AND MAINTENANCE
• Batteries forecast to empty, grouped into one round with a shopping list and a reminder
• Firmware: devices running older versions than others of the same model
• Thread and Matter diagnostics: border routers, devices that don't answer, why pairing fails
• Leak, smoke and CO alerts that also reach your family

FREE TO TRY
Free to download. Home, the floor plan, your devices and the safety alerts are free. Try the rest free for 14 days, then unlock it once. One purchase, no subscription, shared with your family.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account and no tracking. Your home stays in HomeKit and your own iCloud. A Mac at home can run the rules and read the network around the clock; everything else works on its own.

WORKS WITH
Any HomeKit and Matter accessory, Thread, and HomePod temperature · UniFi (Ubiquiti) gateways · Thermia heat pumps · Netatmo weather station · Tibber, Octopus Energy and Nord Pool spot prices · weather from Open-Meteo, with warnings from SMHI, MET Norway and FMI. Those features need the device or account.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock Everything | $7.99 | one-time |
| 14-day Trial | Free | one-time |


## Is Home Control safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Home Control.

## Is Home Control legit?

Home Control – Explained has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Home Control is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-11-12

• Your real price: add the grid fee, energy tax and markup, and every price, cost and cheapest hour is the price on your bill. Earlier deals are kept, fixed or spot.
• Quarter-hour prices in today's chart, with the spikes marked.
• A price widget for the Home and Lock Screen, a network widget, and a Live Activity while electricity is at its cheapest.
• Wi‑Fi tune-up: what would make your Wi‑Fi better, with the evidence and the steps.
• Reports: a monthly home report, energy, a home inventory, health and an internet report card, as PDFs to keep or print.
• Home shows electricity and weather at a glance, and after ten days what the app found in your home.
• Calmer notifications: devices that drop out together share one notification, with quiet hours if you like.
• New tabs on iPhone (Home, Energy, Climate, Insights, More) and the iOS 27 colours.
• HomePod charts fill in on iPhone, and a device brought in by two hubs counts once.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-11-09

• Energy looks ahead: use and cost for today and tomorrow, hour by hour, from the weather forecast. And on a fixed price, see what spot would have cost you, month by month.
• Network opens with an overview and a picture of every device, the internet line's health, and the switches and access points from UniFi.
• A Tidy Up page for your set-up's loose ends, and weather warnings from SMHI and MET Norway.
• Your week shows where you are among its cards, and the Rain card goes back through earlier months.
• Watering follows the season, a greenhouse can have its own season, and HomePod rooms stay listed with when they last measured.
• Another home no longer shows the main home's insights and weather as its own.
• Faster: no more spinning wheel on the Mac or on the Energy page, and many fixes from TestFlight.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-04

• A new look. Home starts with what needs you, in words, then your rooms and scenes. On iPhone, tabs for Home, Rooms, Climate, Insights and More; on Mac and iPad, the system's own sidebar.
• Every room has its own page: how it feels, temperature and humidity against your range, the last day as a chart, and its lights a tap away.
• Every insight opens with a chart that explains itself, and what to do about it.
• Energy opens with the day's prices and what you can do; Network shows internet, router and Wi‑Fi at a glance.
• HomePod temperatures get charts, and Replay the day on iPhone uses your Mac's full history.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-28

• Home Control is now free to download. Home, the floor plan, your devices and the safety alerts stay free.
• Try everything else free for 14 days, nothing is charged, then unlock it all with a single purchase, shared with your family.
• Bought Home Control earlier? You keep everything, nothing to do.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-27

• Home replays your day on the floor plan, rooms coloured by temperature, with a ribbon of today: electricity price, daylight, who's home, lights and rain.
• Room tiles show humidity or CO₂, the year in rings and the week told as a story.
• New insights: how fast each room loses heat, what runs while the house sleeps, habits worth handing to Autopilot and devices wearing out.
• Ask your home: questions answered on your device by Apple's own model.
• Network: a living map of your Wi-Fi and readable device names.
• HomePod mini temperatures: the Shortcuts action Log Room Temperature, which Home Control on your Mac can run every three hours.
• A pressure graph, clearer legends and many fixes from testers.

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