Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Aura Maintain

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

Aura Maintain

Features
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Aura Maintain simplifies home and vehicle maintenance so nothing falls through the cracks. Get personalized, AI-generated maintenance checklists tailored to your specific properties and vehicles, track warranties, manage supplies, and share responsibilities with your household. Key Features: - AI-powered maintenance tasks customized for your home, lawn, garden, and vehicles - Health scores that show how well-maintained your assets are - Warranty tracking with expiration reminders - Household sharing so everyone stays on the same page - Recurring chore tracking with a gamified household leaderboard - Printable maintenance and service reports - Service contact management and sharing - Vehicle service history tracking - Email and push notification reminders for overdue tasks Start with a free 14-day trial with full access to all features. Then choose the plan that works for you: Standard ($4.99/month) — Up to 2 properties and 3 vehicles, AI-generated tasks, warranty tracking, health scores, and maintenance reminders. Pro ($9.99/month) — Everything in Standard plus unlimited properties and vehicles, household sharing, printable reports, supplies management, service contacts, and AI-powered insights. Stop reacting to problems and start preventing them. Download Aura Maintain and take control of your home and vehicle care today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Aura Maintain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Controller for HomeKit at every 10 days against Aura Maintain's every 3 months. Controller for HomeKit also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Aura Maintain's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

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 and Aura Maintain sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, Aura Maintain every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Aura Maintain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitAura Maintain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHJustin Cohen

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

Aura Maintain

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
2 purchases

Aura Maintain

Subscriptions2
  • Standard$4.991 Month
  • Pro$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aura Maintain free?
Aura Maintain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Aura Maintain have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor Aura Maintain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Aura Maintain?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and Aura Maintain every 3 months. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 15, 2026 and Aura Maintain on September 30, 2026.

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