Comparison

Nomadic Wallpaper vs Controller for HomeKit

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

Head to head
About

Nomadic Wallpaper

Transform your screens into travel art with stunning photos and custom designs inspired by global adventures. Explore categories like beaches, cityscapes, and inspirational quotes. Enjoy slideshows, save favorites, and customize your viewing experience.

Highlights
  • Travel-inspired photos
  • Custom design quotes
  • Blend of images and designs
  • Slideshow mode
  • Save to photo library
  • Sleep mode timer
  • Adjustable slideshow speed
Features
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Get Nomadic Wallpaper Now So You Can Turn Your Screens Into Travel Art. Free For A Limited Time Only! *Also Available On Apple TV!* Created by travel lovers for fellow travel lovers. Nomadic is filled with gorgeous pictures and custom designs to get you excited for your next adventure. 3 Main Categories For Any Mood You're In: *PHOTO -- From beach vibes to cityscape nightlife. Pics of all sorts from all over the world. **TYPE -- Custom designs with travel inspired quotes. Beautiful words from famous vagabonds, writers, adventures and musicians. ***BLEND -- A trippy mix of designs and images. This adventure art will get you intrigued and make you think. Additional Features Include: ~ Use the design stacks as a slideshow or pick your favorites as your iPhone/iPad wallpaper ~ Save any of these pics to your photo library ~ Set a sleep mode to turn the slideshow off ~ Choose your slideshow speed: Slow, Medium or Fast ~ And More! Get Nomadic Wallpaper today and keep the travel bug alive! Thanks, The Nomadic Team If you have any ideas on how we can improve, or if you found a bug we should squash, please hit us up at support@berzapp.com and Makaela will get back to you (she's the best).

About

Controller for HomeKit

Enhance your smart home experience with advanced control and automation. Visualize your home with floor plans, track device performance with charts, and create complex automations tailored to your needs. Organize devices, store setup codes, and monitor your entire smart home ecosystem.

Highlights
  • Floor plan visualization with LiDAR
  • Device performance charts
  • Complex automations and workflows
  • Custom notifications
  • Smart folders and filters
  • Setup code storage
  • Device maintenance and logs
Features
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Get more out of your smart home. Your HomeKit and Matter devices can do more than on and off: Controller for HomeKit gives you dashboards you build yourself, workflows that run over several steps, months of history, and a floor plan you control directly. YOUR OWN DASHBOARD Your devices sit where you need them, instead of in a list. - Views you compose yourself from tiles: per home, per person, and if you want, per device. One for the iPad on the wall, one for the iPhone in your pocket. - More than 25 tile variants: devices, scenes, workflows, time, weather, calendar, charts, battery warnings. - Five standard sizes, or drag your own size on the grid. - Visibility conditions: a tile or a whole section appears only when you need it. - Plus widgets for your Home Screen and a view of your own on Apple Watch. CONTROLLER AI Describe what you need in plain language: a dashboard, a scene, an automation or a workflow. Controller builds it, and you adjust it however you like afterwards. MORE THAN A SCHEDULE Two devices become a sequence that thinks along. - Workflows: multiple steps, conditions and branches for sequences a single automation cannot express. - Automations with advanced triggers and conditions. - States: virtual switches that capture how your home currently stands and drive your workflows accordingly. - Custom notifications for anything you want to know about. - NFC tags: one tap and the workflow runs. YOUR SENSORS ARE ALREADY MEASURING Controller remembers the values and makes them readable. - Charts: see how temperature, humidity or battery level develop over weeks and months, across every device and brand. - Maintenance: which battery is empty, which device is unreachable, which automation is broken. - Logs: every activity and every change, traceable. - Smart folders: devices and automations grouped by filters you define. - Floor Plan: scan your home with the LiDAR sensor of your iPhone or iPad and control your devices right on the plan. - Controller Hub: a dedicated iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac runs your workflows automatically. Charts and States require Controller Hub. SHARE THE WORK, NOT JUST THE SWITCHES - Home Sharing: pass your entire setup to the people you live with. For each person you choose between the whole app or only the dashboards you share with them. - Setup codes: your HomeKit and Matter codes stay safe in the app and never get lost. - Backups: save your setup and restore it whenever you need to. TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS A week in your own home tells you more than any screenshot. Choose a yearly subscription to Controller Essentials or Controller Plus: the first 7 days are free, so you can see what Controller gets out of your devices. Rather pay once? Controller Lifetime gives you everything in Controller Plus, forever, with no subscription. Controller for HomeKit runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. You already own the devices. Controller for HomeKit brings out what is in them. More on our website: https://www.controllerforhomekit.com Privacy Policy: https://controllerforhomekit.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nomadic Wallpaper4 screens
Controller for HomeKit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Controller for HomeKit at 4.1 against Nomadic Wallpaper's 2.0. Controller for HomeKit also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 2). Nomadic Wallpaper's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 28%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). 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. Nomadic Wallpaper sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Controller for HomeKit sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Controller for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Nomadic Wallpaper's written reviews are positive against 28% of Controller for HomeKit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nomadic Wallpaper ships an update every 3 months, Controller for HomeKit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Nomadic Wallpaper versus Controller for HomeKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNomadic WallpaperController for HomeKit
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better28.4% of reviews
Number of ratings22.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB219 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJourno Inc.acasa Software GmbH

Customer experience

Nomadic Wallpaper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Controller for HomeKit

All ratings2,765 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.1%
Written reviews486 reviews
Positive28.4%
Neutral9.7%
Negative61.9%

Bugs and requests

Nomadic Wallpaper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Controller for HomeKit

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Backup and restore issues
  • Disappearing automations and accessories
  • Compatibility problems with iOS 16.2
  • Slow performance and unresponsiveness

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved documentation and tutorials
  • Better integration with Apple Home app
  • Support for more HomeKit device types
  • Ability to customize automation triggers

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Nomadic Wallpaper

One-time10
  • South Dakota$1.99
  • Skateboarding Stack$1.99
  • South Dakota Stack$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Unlock Skateboarding Stake$1.99
  • Save Big, Remove Ads and Unlock Everything!$2.99
  • Go Pro$2.99
  • Unlock South Dakota and Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock Skateboarding and Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock South Dakota & Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock Skateboarding & Remove Ads$2.99
7 purchases

Controller for HomeKit

Subscriptions6
  • Controller Essentials2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Essentials Lifetime - Plus Addon$4.991 Month
  • Controller Plus$8.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Essentials Lifetime - Plus Addon3 Months trial$39.991 Year
  • Controller Essentials7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
  • Controller Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Controller Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99

Questions

Is Nomadic Wallpaper free?
Nomadic Wallpaper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nomadic Wallpaper or Controller for HomeKit?
Controller for HomeKit is rated higher. Nomadic Wallpaper averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 from 2.8K ratings.
Do Nomadic Wallpaper or Controller for HomeKit have ads?
Neither Nomadic Wallpaper nor Controller for HomeKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nomadic Wallpaper or Controller for HomeKit?
Nomadic Wallpaper ships an update every 3 months, and Controller for HomeKit every 2 weeks. Most recently, Nomadic Wallpaper was updated on October 24, 2026 and Controller for HomeKit on October 29, 2026.

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