Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Wine Cellar Manager

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

Wine Cellar Manager

Manage your personal wine collection with this multi-platform app. Track inventory, vintages, open bottles, and even wine consumed outside your cellar. Capture wine moments with photos and analyze your collection with statistics.

Highlights
  • Manage wine inventory and vintage data
  • Track open bottles and fill levels
  • Import wines from a database
  • Create virtual wine racks and fridges
  • Manage orders and subscriptions
  • Journal for cellar movements and consumed wines
  • Capture wine moments with photos
Features
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Our multi-platform wine cellar & lifestyle app is all you need for your personal wine experience! From basic management of bottles and vintages up to capturing your wine moments - the Wine Cellar Manager has you covered! Access your data on your iPhone, iPad & Mac with your iCloud Account. Key Features & Highlights: * Manage your wine inventory along with vintage specific data * Track your open bottles (for users of wine saver systems, including fill level & date) * Import wines from our Wine Cloud database * Create virtual wine racks and fridges - the Wine Cellar Manager supports multiple rooms and even houses for advanced use cases * Support for multiple currencies and bottle sizes * Mange your orders and subscriptions * The Journal tracks every cellar movement and allows you to track wines consumed outside of your cellar (e.g. restaurant) * Capture your Wine Moments by posting photos and connecting them with your Journal * Various filters for fast access * Different layouts and customization options * Statistics & graphics to analyze your inventory and purchases * Available for iPhone, iPad & Mac * Shared multi-user data access (Advanced Edition) Any questions? Just get in touch with our support: support@winemanager.app Cheers! Licence Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Wine Cellar Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Controller for HomeKit at 2.7K against Wine Cellar Manager's 5. Wine Cellar Manager's advantage is review sentiment (46% vs 27%). On price, rating, update cadence 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 and Wine Cellar Manager sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Controller for HomeKit against 4.2 for Wine Cellar Manager. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 27% of Controller for HomeKit's written reviews are positive against 46% of Wine Cellar Manager's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, Wine Cellar Manager fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Wine Cellar Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitWine Cellar Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings)4.2 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews46.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB504 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developeracasa Software GmbHTeck Apps UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

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

Wine Cellar Manager

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative38.5%

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

Wine Cellar Manager

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
13 purchases

Wine Cellar Manager

Subscriptions9
  • Advanced Edition1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Advanced 2 Months7 Days trial$5.992 Months
  • Basic Plus Edition$7.996 Months
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  • Basic Edition macOS$8.991 Year
  • Advanced 6 Months7 Days trial$14.906 Months
  • Advanced Cloud Edition1 Month trial$14.996 Months
  • Basic Plus Edition$14.991 Year
  • Advanced one year$22.991 Year
  • Advanced Edition1 Month trial$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Basic Plus Edition Unlimited$34.99
  • Wine Manager Basic$36.00
  • Basic Mac Version$36.00
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  • Advanced Unlimited Edition$44.99

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wine Cellar Manager free?
Wine Cellar Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or Wine Cellar Manager?
Wine Cellar Manager is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Wine Cellar Manager averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Wine Cellar Manager have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor Wine Cellar Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Wine Cellar Manager?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and Wine Cellar Manager fortnightly. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 18, 2026 and Wine Cellar Manager on October 16, 2026.

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