Controller for HomeKit vs WristControl for HomeKit
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. 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/
WristControl for HomeKit
Control your HomeKit devices and scenes directly from your smartwatch. Manage scenes, favorite accessories, and all compatible devices with customizable views and icons. Run scenes directly from watch complications.
- Control HomeKit devices and scenes
- Scenes tab with grid or list view
- Favorites tab for quick access
- All accessories tab with hiding option
- Customizable icons for scenes and accessories
- Scenes as watch complications
- Standalone watch app functionality
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If the app does not show on your Watch after purchase please go to App Store on your watch (not phone) - scroll to bottom - Account - Purchased - and download from here. With this app you can control your HomeKit devices and scenes better than ever! The application consists of 3 tabs: - Scenes: Add any existing HomeKit scene, and trigger with a simple tap. You can choose between a compact grid view with icons only, or a more detailed list view with names too. - Favorites: Choose from list of compatible accessories for quick access. Tap on accessories to turn them on/off - All: All compatible accessories will be shown here, but you can hide any if you want - Option for list or grid view for accessories - For all scenes and accessories you can choose from over 270 icons - Reorder accessories and scenes - Every scene can be turned into a complication, using the complication to open the app will automatically run the scene. - Support for home selection - Standalone watch app: every functionality and setting available right on your watch, even when your phone is out of range - Complication with custom icon and color to launch the app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Controller for HomeKit at Free against WristControl for HomeKit's $0.99. Controller for HomeKit also leads on ratings volume (2.8K vs 26) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). WristControl for HomeKit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (58% vs 28%). On 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
Controller for HomeKit is free to download; WristControl for HomeKit costs $0.99 up front. Controller for HomeKit sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. WristControl for HomeKit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Controller for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.8K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of Controller for HomeKit's written reviews are positive against 58% of WristControl for HomeKit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, WristControl for HomeKit every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Controller for HomeKit | WristControl for HomeKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better | 3.8 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.4% of reviews | 57.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #179 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acasa Software GmbH | Andras Solyom |
Customer experience
Controller for HomeKit
WristControl for HomeKit
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
WristControl for HomeKit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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 Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99
WristControl for HomeKit
No in-app purchases
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