Controller for HomeKit vs itek Smart Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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. 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/
itek Smart Home
Manage all your smart home devices from a single application. Control devices individually or in groups, schedule their operation, and receive real-time safety alerts. Enjoy voice control integration with popular smart assistants.
- Unified device control
- Group device management
- Voice control integration
- Device sharing
- Real-time alerts
- Scheduling
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iTek Smart Home, Live Smart life with our Smart Devices • Control all iTek Smart Life Products using one App or Amazon Echo or Google Assistant • Add or control multiple devices at once with one App • Voice control via Amazon Echo and Google Home • Share Devices with your family members or friends and give them access to control your devices • Receive real-time alerts to ensure safety • Schedule when devices turn on or off to your convenience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: itek Smart Home at none against Controller for HomeKit's 10. itek Smart Home also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 161). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Controller for HomeKit sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. itek Smart Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
itek Smart Home holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.7K ratings behind it against 161, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Controller for HomeKit's written reviews are positive against 34% of itek Smart Home's.
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, itek Smart Home every 14 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Controller for HomeKit | itek Smart Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (2.7K ratings) | 4.5 (161 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 34.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 161 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acasa Software GmbH | Midwest Trading Group Inc |
Customer experience
Controller for HomeKit
itek Smart Home
User reviews
Controller for HomeKit
From 2.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Powerful automation features
- 📚 Helpful backup and restore functionality
- 🔍 Detailed logging and troubleshooting
- 🧠 Advanced HomeKit control and customization
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crash-prone
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🤖 Poor customer support
- 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive UI
itek Smart Home
From 161 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great value for money
- 👍 Excellent picture quality
- 👍 Many features for the price
- 👍 Good HD picture
- 👍 Can record on mobile
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work with newer camera models
- 🐛 Camera goes offline without subscription
- 🐛 Movement detection issues
- 🐛 No option to buy cloud storage
- 🐛 App doesn't work with bulbs
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
itek Smart Home
Reported bugs
25 issues- App update not working
- Update logged user out
- Device will not connect with Google Home
- App does not let control lights
- App doesn't work with bulb
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- Light won't connect to app
- App is completely useless
- App update doesn't work
- Cleared all devices after update
- Cannot group and control devices
- All devices disappeared after update
- Unable to connect to app after update
- 1.0.4 version is screw up
- Scheduled times stopped working
- Cannot turn light bulb on/off
- Smart light bulb will NOT connect to the app
- App crashes when scheduling
- App crashes when sharing devices
- Cannot connect to Google Home anymore
- Firmware needs update
- Cannot connect to Wifi
- Difficult to connect to Wifi
- Cannot add to Google Home
- Does not take whole Wifi password
- Not able to connect to Amazon Alexa
Requested features
3 requests- Modes Function for motion detection
- More preset color options
- Ability to edit color options
In-app purchases
Controller for HomeKit
- Controller Essentials2 variants$4.991 Month
- Essentials Lifetime - Plus Addon$4.991 Month
- Controller Plus$8.991 Month
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- Essentials Lifetime - Plus Addon3 Months trial$39.991 Year
- Controller Essentials7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
- Controller Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Controller Essentials Lifetime$99.99
- Controller Essentials Lifetime$139.99
itek Smart Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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