Controller for HomeKit vs Lychee Watch
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. 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/
Lychee Watch
Remotely manage your smart sliding doors and windows with this companion app. It allows control from any location, but requires initial setup via a separate mobile application.
- Remote control of sliding doors and windows
- Control from any location
- Companion app for SmartSlydr device
- Requires mobile app for initial setup
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Control your Sliding Doors and Windows from anywhere using the SmartSlydr Watch app. No need to take This is the secondary app to control the SmartSlydr device. The login and onboarding is not supported from the Watch App. Please use the Mobile app first for setting up a new account and onboard the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Controller for HomeKit at 4.1 against Lychee Watch's 2.0. Controller for HomeKit also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 1). Lychee Watch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Controller for HomeKit sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lychee Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Controller for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, 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 0% of Lychee Watch's.
| Parameter | Controller for HomeKit | Lychee Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (2.7K ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | acasa Software GmbH | Lychee Things Inc. |
Customer experience
Controller for HomeKit
Lychee Watch
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
Lychee Watch
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 Essentials Lifetime$99.99
- Controller Essentials Lifetime$139.99
Lychee Watch
No in-app purchases
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