Comparison

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.

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. 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

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.

Highlights
  • Unified device control
  • Group device management
  • Voice control integration
  • Device sharing
  • Real-time alerts
  • Scheduling
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
itek Smart Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, itek Smart Home every 14 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Controller for HomeKit versus itek Smart Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKititek Smart Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings)4.5 (161 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews34.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better161
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB204 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHMidwest Trading Group Inc

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

All ratings2,742 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews468 reviews
Positive26.7%
Neutral9.6%
Negative63.7%

itek Smart Home

All ratings161 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive34.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative55.2%

User reviews

Controller for HomeKit

From 2.7K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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
Show 20 more
  • 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

8 purchases

Controller for HomeKit

Subscriptions6
  • 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
One-time2
  • Controller Essentials Lifetime$99.99
  • Controller Essentials Lifetime$139.99
None

itek Smart Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is itek Smart Home free?
itek Smart Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or itek Smart Home?
itek Smart Home is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while itek Smart Home averages 4.5 from 161 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or itek Smart Home have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor itek Smart Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or itek Smart Home?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and itek Smart Home every 14 months. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 15, 2026 and itek Smart Home on October 15, 2026.

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