Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Foresight Formula

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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Experience and control your Apple Home in a whole new way with Controller for HomeKit. Our app combines all the familiar HomeKit features with numerous additional enhancements, offering you a user-friendly interface, unparalleled control, and flexibility. * CONTROLLER AI: Describe a scene, automation, or workflow in everyday language – Controller builds it for you. * FLOOR PLAN: Create a detailed floor plan of your home using the LiDAR sensor on your iPhone or iPad and control your HomeKit accessories directly through the floor plan. * CHARTS: See how your Apple Home evolves over time. Charts in Controller for HomeKit show how values like temperature, humidity or battery usage change – across all your devices and brands. * COMPLEX AUTOMATIONS: Utilize advanced triggers and conditions for custom automations that are perfectly tailored to your needs. * WORKFLOWS: Optimize your daily routines with workflows that go beyond the capabilities of Apple Home. * NOTIFICATIONS: Create custom notifications to stay informed about important events in your home. * BACKUPS: Secure your setup and restore it easily when needed. * SMART FOLDERS: Organize your devices and automations effortlessly with smart folders and custom filters. * SETUP CODES: Securely store your HomeKit and Matter codes in the app, so they are always at hand and never lost. * MAINTENANCE: Keep track of your setup, quickly identifying which batteries need to be replaced, which devices are unreachable, or which automations are broken. * LOGS: Monitor all activities and changes in your smart home. * WIDGETS: Control your devices faster and easier with convenient widgets or quickly jump into your floor plan. Unlock the full potential of your smart home with Controller for HomeKit. Download the app now and experience how simple and intuitive home automation can be. For more information, visit our website: https://www.controllerforhomekit.com Privacy Policy: https://controllerforhomekit.com/privacy-en/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Foresight Formula

Features
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Foresight Formula Digital Succession: Digital inheritance planning made easy. What Is Digital Inheritance? Your digital inheritance is the ability to pass on assets securely to future generations. Foresight Formula Digital Succession provides an end-to-end encrypted, trustee-based release process to ensure your assets reach the right people at the right time. From important documents to estate planning, financial accounts to cryptocurrency keys and login credentials, cherished photos, videos or messages —Foresight Formula Digital Succession ensures your digital inheritance is safeguarded and delivered to your loved ones when the time is right. How It Works Create Your Digital inheritance Set up encrypted archives to securely store your assets, ready for future delivery. Assign Trustees & Recipients Designate trusted individuals as trustees to safeguard encrypted private keys. When the time comes, they will initiate the secure release of your archives to your chosen recipients. Zero-Knowledge Release Trustees can authorize the delivery without accessing their contents, ensuring ultimate security. Release When the Time Is Right Your trustees will combine their private keys to securely unlock and deliver your archives. Why Choose Foresight Formula Digital Succession? Secure by design with our umatched Security with "Trustee Factor Authentication" Our multi-person encryption safeguards your assets beyond the highest security standards. Combined with our user-generated private key, biometric verification, and a one-time in-app code, we offer the highest level of security available for a digital inheritance solution today.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Foresight Formula4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Foresight Formula at none against Controller for HomeKit's 10. Controller for HomeKit's advantage is device support (5 vs 1). On price, 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

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. Foresight Formula asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Foresight Formula: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitForesight Formula
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size212 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHUchi Advisory LLC

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

Foresight Formula

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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  • Controller Essentials7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
  • Essentials Lifetime - Plus Addon7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Controller Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • Controller Essentials Lifetime2 variants$99.99
None

Foresight Formula

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foresight Formula free?
Foresight Formula is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Foresight Formula have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor Foresight Formula shows ads.

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