Home Widget for HomeKit · HW User Reviews

Name: Home Widget for HomeKit · HW
Rating: 4.1 (151 reviews)

Home Widget for HomeKit · HW

Clement Marty

🔧 Utilities

🌟 Lifestyle

Customer Experience

Positive experience72.4% of reviews

Neutral13.2% of reviews

Negative experience14.4% of reviews

~ Based on 174 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Home Widget for HomeKit · HW. Based on 151 reviews and a 4.1/5 average, it highlights the 8 positives and 6 negatives reviewers mention most about this Utilities app.

Positive things

🚀Great auxiliary options
🚀Insanely useful
👍Awesome
👍Beautiful widgets
👍Plenty of customization options
👍Fills a huge HomeKit gap
👍Compliments HomeKit
👍Doing what Apple can't be bothered to do

Negative things

🐛Stopped working
🐛Doesn't update
🐛Doesn't refresh
🐛Freezing widgets
🔋Draining battery
🔒Settings locked behind paywall

Is Home Widget for HomeKit · HW Safe?

Home Widget for HomeKit · HW appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Home Widget for HomeKit · HW is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 151 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

73.5% of ratings point to a safe experience

9.3% of ratings suggest some concerns

17.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 151 App Store ratings for Home Widget for HomeKit · HW.

Is Home Widget for HomeKit · HW Legit?

Home Widget for HomeKit · HW appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Home Widget for HomeKit · HW is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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A Gem!

Brilliant app for Home widgets! I like it!

mchu_01

5 months ago

Great auxiliary options!

This app adds what apple should have. Only suggestion is to add ability to pinch to zoom on viewing video.

cynicalcitizen

8 months ago

如果有VP，真的要试试

一直在寻找可以在Vision Pro上控制HomeKit的小组件App，AR+智能家居真的没话说！如果你有Vision Pro，并且也用Homekit，那真的得尝试一下！虽然以兼容性App运行，但一切顺利，感谢开发者，软件挺棒的，动效也挺高级，希望持续优化，比如控制灯泡颜色和亮度的交互可以再改进一下，现在每次点击都会跳转控制面板，来回切换确实容易懵，而且有时会因此增加操作交互次数。不过其他的都挺棒的，最重点是达到了我一直想要的AR+HomeKit的效果，值得五颗星！

ZayneZanen

8 months ago

Should be standard with HomeKit

Works well, crazy this functionality isn’t included in HomeKit. Widgets occasionally become unresponsive but for me it’s always an issue with my Z-Wave or Ikea integration and it needs a reboot for HomeKit and this widget to see it again. If HomeKit is unresponsive with a device, this widget will be as well.

Thi$@ppsuck$

9 months ago

Leider aktualisieren seit längerem die Widgets nicht mehr

Alles ist eingestellt wie empfohlen mit 30 min aber trotzdem aktualisiert es nicht mehr selber. Zeigt deswegen immer falsche Zustände an.

Habe jetzt mal den Support angeschrieben ob da was zurück kommt Mal sehen.

Seit 4 Monaten keine Updates ist auch ungewöhnlich, soll aber erst mal nix heißen.

KEMALO93

a year ago

Response from developer

Es tut mir leid, dass Sie so lange auf eine Antwort warten mussten. Version 1.10.0 steht kurz vor der Veröffentlichung. Apple erlaubt Drittanbieter-Widgets keine sofortige Aktualisierung nach jeder HomeKit-Änderung, aber mit der empfohlenen Standardeinstellung sollte die Aktualisierung normalerweise zuverlässig funktionieren. Ein Tippen auf einen beliebigen Sensor oder eine Aktion lädt jederzeit frische HomeKit-Daten. Falls das bei Ihnen nicht geschieht, antworten Sie bitte erneut an contact@vision-apps.com mit iOS-Version und Zubehörmodell; ich werde den konkreten Fall untersuchen.

Stopped working

Stopped working after a while.

DAN13L83

a year ago

Insanely Useful & Great with Arlo and other cameras!

This app is insanely useful for anyone who uses the Home app as your main smart home application. Once you start building panels and creating widgets, this app instantly becomes your go to app! The Lock Screen widget is awesome! The active widgets are awesome! There is so much you can do with this app! Anyone who has cameras (Arlo in particular), this is a must have application. For some reason, accessing live feeds off your Arlo cameras is super fast with this app as compared with the Home app or even the Arlo native app. Not sure why or how but try setting up a camera live feed using this app’s widget and you will notice a significant decrease in the time it takes for the feed to start streaming. Finally, the battery sensors provide you with a simple glance to see all your camera battery levels in one place!

Quintus27

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you for this wonderfully detailed review! I’m especially glad the camera feeds feel fast and that the battery overview is useful with your Arlo setup. Turning a large HomeKit home into something you can understand at a glance is exactly why I built the app.

Awesome

Awesome!!!

i_am_man

a year ago

Does not update

Used to work great. Since 18.4 does not update. Manual update does not work either. Now widget panel is just a black square does not display widgets.

speedingcheetah

a year ago

Doesn’t seem to work anymore

The widgets just refuse to update.

timl2k9

a year ago

Worked great for years, broken in 18.4 betas and release

iPhone 14 with 18.4 public release. I’ve deleted and reinstalled and reset widgets. No response to tapping on any widgets for activities.

badm0j0

a year ago

Info application incomplète

Considérant ma note un peu sévère après utilisation sur une période plus longue, je peux dire que cette application est très bien conçue et offre un kit complet de solution pour gérer tous ses équipements HomeKit J’ai acheté cette application Lifetime pensant quelle répondrai totalement à mon besoin. Sachez qu’il faut 1 concentrateur Apple type Apple TV ou autres pour utiliser l’app hors du réseau Wifi de son logement. Ce point n’est pas précisé dans le descriptif de présentation. Comme l’application est incontournable, je vais en acheter 1
J’aimerais aussi savoir comment ou s’il y a une solution pour piloter les volets de toit VELUX ainsi que les prises SOMFY 1ère génération (RTS) ?

mcsaisai

a year ago

Response from developer

Merci pour ce retour très complet. L’accès hors du Wi-Fi exige effectivement un concentrateur Maison Apple (HomePod ou Apple TV) : c’est une règle HomeKit, mais elle mérite d’être mieux précisée. Home Widget pilote ce qui apparaît déjà dans l’app Maison ; les équipements VELUX ou SOMFY RTS doivent donc y être exposés via un pont compatible HomeKit/Matter. Écrivez-moi à contact@vision-apps.com si vous souhaitez vérifier votre installation.

Great App but doesn’t update!

I really like the layout and functionality of the app. I purchased a subscription for a while to test out the pro features …specifically the auto update feature every XX minutes. However this feature never really worked and I always had to click to refresh it. Really unfortunate as otherwise I would have loved the app.

jbutton97

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you, and sorry the feature you subscribed for didn’t meet expectations. The selected interval is a refresh request to iOS, not a guaranteed timer: WidgetKit ultimately decides when background updates run. Still, manual refresh should not feel like the only reliable option. Please email your device, iOS and app versions to contact@vision-apps.com so I can check your setup.

Home Widget

Not a bad concept but I didn't find this app very useful. I created a widget for my eve weather device but never utilized it. maybe Ill try it again in the future as I did pay for lifetime.

[--REDACTED--]

2 years ago

😉

Перестал появляться виджет в плашке выбора виджетов, программа теряет смысл(iOS 18

Nachdogs

2 years ago

1.9.2 totally messed up widgets on iOS 17

Not sure how things look like on iOS 18, but the widget layouts are totally messed up, please fix.

Nathaniel_Wu

2 years ago

Does not refresh

I wish the settings menu wasn’t held for ransom. After paying for a lifetime license and got the settings unlocked I find out the widgets are refreshed by time interval instead of immediately based on when a state of a switch changes other than from this app. Totally useless for my needs and I wished I would have read the reviews prior to dishing out my money.

Mr. O 🐢

2 years ago

Insanely Useful & Great with Arlo and other cameras!

Quintus27

2 years ago

family sharing

Hello friend, I would like to know about family sharing of this app.

I ‘m unable to share, it requires payment.

silvioberto

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello, Familly sharing is enabled on all puchases. It sometime takes some hours to sync across devices. Be sure that your family sharing settings are right (enable sub and app purchase sharing, use the right Apple IDs, etc). If you still struggle, please contact me contact@vision-apps.com Regards, Clement