Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Cogworks

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

Cogworks

Features
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Cogworks is your garage's brain — a single home for tracking maintenance across every bike you own. Built for cyclists with more than one bike: the commuter and the weekend MTB, the road bike and the gravel rig, or the whole quiver of trail bikes you'd rather not admit to owning. WHAT COGWORKS DOES • Track wear — Live progress bars per component, calibrated to km, hours (suspension), or calendar months (tires, bar tape). See at a glance what's good, what's due, and what's overdue. • Log every service — Replacement, service, inspection, cleaning. Full history per component, never lost. • Get reminded — Daily reminder when anything crosses the threshold. No spam, just a heads-up before something breaks. • Bundled templates — Pre-built MTB, road, gravel, and commuter templates with sensible service intervals out of the box. Tweak freely or start blank. • Parts inventory — Track components across installs. A chain you pulled off the road bike keeps its lifetime km when you fit it to the gravel build. • iCloud sync — Your garage follows you across devices. End-to-end encrypted, on Apple's infrastructure. No accounts, no servers we control. DESIGN PRINCIPLES • Premium, not pushy — No ads, no nags, no fake urgency. The paywall triggers exactly once: when you add a second bike. • Privacy by default — Bike names, photos, costs, and notes never leave your device. Anonymous usage analytics only (off in Settings if you prefer). • Built native — SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit. No webviews, no cross-platform tax. Loads fast, feels fast. FREE TIER 1 bike, full feature access. No time limit. PREMIUM Unlimited bikes. $2.99/month or $19.99/year (save 44%). Made by a solo developer in the Netherlands. Feedback is read by a human. Terms of Use: https://et026.github.io/Cogworks/terms Privacy Policy: https://et026.github.io/Cogworks/privacy

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Cogworks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Controller for HomeKit at 5 against Cogworks'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

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 Cogworks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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, Cogworks every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Cogworks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitCogworks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size210 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHErenay Tozun

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

Cogworks

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

Cogworks

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cogworks free?
Cogworks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Cogworks have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor Cogworks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Cogworks?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 10 days, and Cogworks every 3 weeks. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on October 18, 2026 and Cogworks on October 17, 2026.

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