Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs Family Status Clock

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. 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/

About

Family Status Clock

Features
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Keep up with your household without constantly checking a live map. Family Status Clock turns the places and routines your family chooses into simple, glanceable statuses. See who is Home, at Work, at School, On the Way, or using a custom status—plus when each status was last updated. AT A GLANCE • A shared status clock for every family • Clear status and last-updated time for each member • Home Screen widgets for quick checks • Optional arrival and departure notifications YOUR PLACES, YOUR RULES Set places such as Home, Work, or School. With location permission, the app can update your status when you enter or leave a configured place. Precise location is processed on your device where practical; family members see a status and update time, not a continuous route history. BUILT FOR FAMILIES • Create a family or join with an invite • Define custom statuses and colors • Send simple messages to family members • Manage members and family settings START FREE Create one free family with up to four members and one custom status. Family Status Clock Plus offers unlimited families, members, and custom statuses through monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscriptions. Important: Background updates depend on iOS permissions, battery, connectivity, and system limits. Family Status Clock is not an emergency, medical, or real-time safety service. Privacy Policy: https://family-location-alerts.dollagon.com/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://family-location-alerts.dollagon.com/terms/

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
Family Status Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Family Status Clock at daily against Controller for HomeKit's every 2 weeks. Controller for HomeKit's advantage is device support (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Family Status Clock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, Family Status Clock daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Controller for HomeKit versus Family Status Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitFamily Status Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size232 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbH淑君 郭

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

Family Status Clock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Controller for HomeKit

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time1
  • Controller Plus Lifetime2 variants$179.99
2 purchases

Family Status Clock

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Family Status Clock free?
Family Status Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Controller for HomeKit or Family Status Clock have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor Family Status Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or Family Status Clock?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, and Family Status Clock daily. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on November 6, 2026 and Family Status Clock on October 31, 2026.

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