Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs X10 WiFi

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

X10 WiFi

This module enables remote control of X10 home automation devices via your home's WiFi network. Manage your X10 devices from any location with internet access, offering convenience and enhanced control.

Highlights
  • WiFi connectivity
  • X10 device control
  • Remote access
  • Internet connection required
  • Works with old and new X10 devices
Features
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This is the WM100 WiFi module for X10. This HUB communicates with your homes WiFi router. Control your X10 (both old and new) from anywhere you have an internet connection!

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
X10 WiFi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Controller for HomeKit at 4.1 against X10 WiFi's 2.7. Controller for HomeKit also leads on ratings volume (2.8K vs 66) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). X10 WiFi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). 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 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. X10 WiFi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Controller for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.8K ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 28% and 28% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, X10 WiFi every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Controller for HomeKit versus X10 WiFi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitX10 WiFi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better2.7 (66 ratings)
Positive reviews28.4% of reviews — better27.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better66
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHX10

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

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

X10 WiFi

All ratings63 ratings
Positive38.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative47.6%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive27.7%
Neutral14.9%
Negative57.4%

User reviews

Controller for HomeKit

From 2.8K 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

X10 WiFi

From 66 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Long-time X10 users appreciate the app
  • 👍 Easy setup for some users
  • 👍 Works well with older X10 modules
  • 👍 Adds flexibility to classic X10 system
  • 👍 Can control devices remotely

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent connection issues
  • 🐛 App not updated for newer iOS
  • 🐛 Unreliable performance
  • 🐛 Poor customer support
  • 🐛 Outdated interface

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

X10 WiFi

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • App doesn't work with newest iOS
  • Floodlight not working
  • Time changing incorrectly
  • Cannot turn lights on/off
  • App doesn't sync with internet time
Show 20 more
  • QR code scan fails
  • App fails to register user
  • WM100 not working with iOS 15
  • App only supports one X10 Wi-Fi unit per device
  • Daylight Savings Time not handled correctly
  • Hub WiFi problems, requires re-syncing
  • QR code configuration fails on newer iPhones
  • Wi-Fi module won't sync with current iPhone software v13
  • App no longer registers ON/OFF after firmware update
  • Device stopped connecting after a year
  • History and data sync only work intermittently
  • App will not set up using current operating system
  • App unable to identify home WiFi network
  • App not seeing SSID for Network
  • App doesn't connect to Wi-Fi
  • App broken after updating to iOS 11.3
  • App will not connect to home system after scanning QR code
  • iPad iOS 11.3 sync issues
  • Does not work on iPad iOS 11.3
  • Sync feature fails and errors out

Requested features

12 requests
  • Widget companion
  • Dark mode support
  • Support for newer iOS versions
  • Widgets for basic functionality/scenes
  • Ability to reorder devices
Show 7 more
  • Suspend timers function
  • Organize scenes and timers
  • HomeKit support
  • Local control option
  • More sophisticated programming (e.g., brightness levels, timed alarms)
  • Integration with other home automation systems (e.g., Wink)
  • Temperature control based on local weather

In-app purchases

7 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-time1
  • Controller Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99
None

X10 WiFi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is X10 WiFi free?
X10 WiFi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or X10 WiFi?
Controller for HomeKit is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while X10 WiFi averages 2.7 from 66 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or X10 WiFi have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor X10 WiFi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or X10 WiFi?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, and X10 WiFi every 6 weeks. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on November 1, 2026 and X10 WiFi on October 24, 2026.

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