Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs SAMSUNG SLP

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

Head to head
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/

About

SAMSUNG SLP

This platform transforms LED lighting into smart, digital nodes for homes and buildings. It offers processing capabilities, connectivity, and an open architecture for data collection and new applications. Control lighting, dim output, and manage schedules remotely.

Highlights
  • CCT Tuning and dimming
  • Multi-phone connection
  • Reliable OTA updates via BLE mesh
  • Cloud-based account control
  • Synchronization with cloud
  • Remote control via WiFi/BLE bridge
  • Scene and schedule management
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Samsung Smart Lighting Platform (SLP) is an end-to-end solution for smart home, building and IoT environments. Samsung Smart Lighting Platform is designed for integration with LED lighting systems to make it much easier to transform luminaires into smart, digital nodes. This Internet of Things (IoT) platform incorporates processing capabilities, firmware, connectivity and an open architecture connected to sensors for collecting data and creating new applications. [ Key features ] -. CCT Tuning and light output dimming -. Multi-phone connection : N phone to 1 node -. Reliable OTA(over the air) functionality by BLE mesh network -. Control with cloud level account based App -. Synchronization between smart phones and Cloud -. WiFi/BLE bridge for remote control from outside via Cloud -. Scene, Schedule

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
SAMSUNG SLP3 screens

Verdict

The call

Controller for HomeKit and SAMSUNG SLP both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of SAMSUNG SLP's written reviews are positive against 28% of Controller for HomeKit's. SAMSUNG SLP also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is ratings volume (2.8K vs 6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating and ads 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. Controller for HomeKit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SAMSUNG SLP asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Controller for HomeKit against 4.0 for SAMSUNG SLP. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.8K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Controller for HomeKit's written reviews are positive against 100% of SAMSUNG SLP's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, SAMSUNG SLP monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Controller for HomeKit versus SAMSUNG SLP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitSAMSUNG SLP
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better4.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews28.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

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

SAMSUNG SLP

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

SAMSUNG SLP

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Controller for HomeKit

Subscriptions4
  • Controller Essentials2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Controller Plus$8.991 Month
  • Controller Essentials7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
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  • Controller Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Controller Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99
None

SAMSUNG SLP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SAMSUNG SLP free?
SAMSUNG SLP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or SAMSUNG SLP?
Controller for HomeKit is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while SAMSUNG SLP averages 4.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or SAMSUNG SLP have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor SAMSUNG SLP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or SAMSUNG SLP?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, and SAMSUNG SLP monthly. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on November 2, 2026 and SAMSUNG SLP on November 4, 2026.

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