Controller for HomeKit vs Paginor
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/
Paginor
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Paginor sorts your books the way you keep them on the shelf. CAPTURE Hold the barcode in front of the camera. Paginor reads the ISBN and fetches title, author, publisher, cover and blurb from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Open Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biblioteca Nacional de España or the Library of Congress. You decide which sources are asked. Several books one after another, without interruption. Or type the ISBN by hand. No match? Then photograph the cover yourself. If a book is already in your library, Paginor tells you right away — including the shelf it sits on. ORGANISE Create shelves the way you think of them: fiction, crime, non-fiction, the family shelf. A book can sit on several. Every shelf gets a name, a colour and a symbol. Filter by reading status, author and publisher. Keep track of what is on your wishlist, what you are reading and what you have finished, along with your rating. SHARE Publish single shelves as a finished web page. Paginor generates the HTML files and uploads them to your own server over SFTP — or packs them into a ZIP archive to pass on. The pages appear in your app language and carry your name. Through iCloud you share shelves with others. For each person you decide whether they only read or may contribute. GIFT CHECK In the bookshop, open someone's shared shelf, scan the barcode — and Paginor tells you whether the book is already there. Without browsing through their collection. BACKUP Once a day Paginor backs up your library to your iCloud. On top of that you can export a backup file or a CSV list at any time. NO ACCOUNT No sign-up, no servers of ours. Your data stays on your device and, if you want, in your personal iCloud. No tracking, no advertising, no analytics. PAGINOR PLUS For free you use one shelf with ten books — enough to get a feel for it. Paginor Plus lifts both limits, unlocks sharing over iCloud and allows write access on shared shelves. A one-time purchase, no subscription, Family Sharing included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Controller for HomeKit at 5 against Paginor's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Paginor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Controller for HomeKit | Paginor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acasa Software GmbH | Michael Schoenbeck |
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
Paginor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Controller for HomeKit
- Controller Essentials2 variants$4.991 Month
- Controller Plus$8.991 Month
- Controller Essentials7 Days trial2 variants$39.991 Year
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- Controller Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Controller Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99
Paginor
- Paginor Plus$3.99
Questions
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