Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs HAVEN

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

HAVEN

Control a smart door lock using your smartphone's Bluetooth to lock and unlock your home. Grant scheduled guest access remotely and receive notifications for unauthorized entry attempts when paired with a gateway hub.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth lock/unlock
  • Guest pass management
  • Scheduled guest access
  • Remote access (with hub)
  • Attack detection notifications
Features
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The HAVEN app is used to control HAVEN Connect, a preventative smart lock for doors. The HAVEN app uses BlueTooth in your smart phone to lock and unlock HAVEN Connect. Additionally, the app allows you to send guest passes to allow others to access your home. You can even schedule guest passes for certain days and times. Add the HavenLock Gateway Hub and have access remotely to your lock and receive attack detection notifications for any unwanted forced entry attempts.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
HAVEN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HAVEN at 4.8 against Controller for HomeKit's 4.1. HAVEN also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 376). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. HAVEN asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HAVEN holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.7K ratings behind it against 376, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Controller for HomeKit's written reviews are positive against 17% of HAVEN's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, HAVEN every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Controller for HomeKit versus HAVEN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitHAVEN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings)4.8 (376 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.5% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.7K — better376
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHHaven Lock, Inc.

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

All ratings2,742 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews461 reviews
Positive26.5%
Neutral9.8%
Negative63.8%

HAVEN

All ratings376 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.3%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

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

HAVEN

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

HAVEN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HAVEN free?
HAVEN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or HAVEN?
HAVEN is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while HAVEN averages 4.8 from 376 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or HAVEN have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor HAVEN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or HAVEN?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and HAVEN every 2 months. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 15, 2026 and HAVEN on October 4, 2026.

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