Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Absolute Humidity

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

Absolute Humidity

This app calculates and displays absolute humidity using temperature and relative humidity data from connected devices. It helps users understand their environmental comfort level with numerical values and visuals. A Pro version offers weather forecasts for any location.

Highlights
  • Absolute humidity calculation
  • Supports HomeKit & SwitchBot meters
  • Comfort level visualization
  • Weather information (Pro version)
  • Volumetric & gravimetric humidity display
  • Ad-free experience (Pro version)
Features
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Support your comfortable environment! “Absolute Humidity” is an application that calculates and displays absolute humidity using temperature and relative humidity data obtained from a thermohygrometer. It is designed so that the comfort level can be understood at a glance with numerical values ​​and visuals. In addition, you can get weather information of any area you set and display the current absolute humidity and forecasts (Pro version only). ■ Thermo-hygrometer device SwitchBot Meter, SwitchBot Meter Plus, SwitchBot Meter Pro, SwitchBot Meter Pro (CO2 Monitor), SwitchBot Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer, SwitchBot Hub 2, and HomeKit accessories registered in the Home app are available. If you using SwitchBot devices without a hub, data is displayed only within the range of Bluetooth communication with the thermo-hygrometer. Outside the Bluetooth communication range, such as on the go, data will be displayed only when the SwitchBot cloud service is set to cooperate. ■ Absolute humidity method The absolute humidity display supports both volumetric absolute humidity (g/m3) and gravimetric absolute humidity (g/kg). ■About subscription In the free version, the number of thermo-hygrometers that can be displayed is limited to 4, and advertisements are displayed in the app. The paid subscription “Absolute Humidity Pro” has no display restrictions or advertisements. As an Amazon Associate “Absolute Humidity” earns from qualifying purchases.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Absolute Humidity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Absolute Humidity at 80% against Controller for HomeKit's 27%. Absolute Humidity also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Absolute Humidity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Absolute Humidity 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 2.8K ratings behind it against 2, 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 80% of Absolute Humidity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, Absolute Humidity every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Absolute Humidity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitAbsolute Humidity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHYuta Hirobe

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

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

Absolute Humidity

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

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

Absolute Humidity

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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$139.99
2 purchases

Absolute Humidity

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$1.991 Month
  • Annual Plan1 Month trial$17.491 Year

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Absolute Humidity free?
Absolute Humidity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or Absolute Humidity?
Absolute Humidity is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Absolute Humidity averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Absolute Humidity have ads?
Absolute Humidity shows ads; Controller for HomeKit does not.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Absolute Humidity?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and Absolute Humidity every 5 weeks. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 23, 2026 and Absolute Humidity on October 18, 2026.

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