Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Threshold Care App

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

Threshold Care App

This app offers real-time monitoring for loved ones' well-being, providing 24/7 motion data for up to two weeks. It allows for comparison of daily motion history and easy setup of residences, motion zones, and devices.

Highlights
  • Real-time well-being monitoring
  • 24/7 motion data up to two weeks
  • Day-to-day motion history comparison
  • Residence, motion zone, and device management
  • Intuitive user interface
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The Threshold Care App provides an intuitive interface for real-time monitoring, ensuring that caregivers can stay informed about their loved one’s well-being. View 24/7 motion data for up to two weeks. Compare day to day motion history. Easily set up and manage residences, motion zones, and devices.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Threshold Care App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Threshold Care App at none against Controller for HomeKit's 10. Threshold Care App also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (50% vs 27%). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 4). On price 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. Threshold Care App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Threshold Care App 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 4, 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 50% of Threshold Care App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, Threshold Care App every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Threshold Care App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitThreshold Care App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHThreshold Care, Inc.

Customer experience

Controller for HomeKit

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

Threshold Care App

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Threshold Care App

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
None

Threshold Care App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Threshold Care App free?
Threshold Care App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Controller for HomeKit or Threshold Care App?
Threshold Care App is rated higher. Controller for HomeKit averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Threshold Care App averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Threshold Care App?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and Threshold Care App every 8 months. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 20, 2026 and Threshold Care App on September 30, 2026.

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