Comparison

Controller for HomeKit vs CrystaryX To Do

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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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

CrystaryX To Do

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CrystaryX To Do bringt Ordnung in das, was in jeder Familie irgendwann zur Diskussion wird: Wer macht was, und was gibt es dafür? Eltern legen Aufgaben an. Kinder sehen auf ihrem eigenen Gerät – Handy oder Tablet –, was zu tun ist, und haken es ab. Die Eltern bestätigen, erst dann wächst das Guthaben. Es fließt kein echtes Geld: Alle Beträge sind Zahlen, die Auszahlung passiert bei euch zu Hause. DAS AUFGABENBRETT Alle Aufgaben untereinander, offene oben, erledigte unten. Bei jeder Aufgabe steht, welche Kinder mitmachen und wo sie gerade stehen. Ein Tipp bestätigt, ein zweiter gibt zurück. AUFGABEN, DIE WIEDERKOMMEN Täglich, wöchentlich oder einmalig. Erledigte Aufgaben verschwinden nicht, sie werden wieder freigegeben, wenn der nächste Tag ansteht. PFLICHTAUFGABEN Manche Dinge müssen einfach gemacht werden. Bleibt eine Pflichtaufgabe liegen, kann der Betrag abgezogen werden. Kein Konto rutscht dabei ins Minus, und vor jedem Abzug steht eine Nachfrage – es ist Geld, das Kindern weggenommen wird. MEDIENZEIT STATT ODER NEBEN GELD Eine Aufgabe kann Geld einbringen, Bildschirmzeit oder beides. Beides wird getrennt geführt und getrennt entschieden: Zwei Euro fürs Eis sind eine andere Frage als eine Stunde am Bildschirm. DER FAMILIENKALENDER Termine für alle an einem Ort: Arzt, Training, Elternabend. Eltern und Kinder tragen ein, alle sehen es, und rechtzeitig vorher bekommt jeder Beteiligte eine Erinnerung aufs Handy. Wer mag, ordnet einen Termin einem bestimmten Kind zu – dann wird auch nur dieses erinnert. Eltern können Termine zusätzlich nur für sich eintragen. GELD ANFRAGEN Kinder fragen in der App nach einer Auszahlung und schreiben dazu, wofür. Die Eltern entscheiden. Erst dann sinkt das Guthaben. BEIDE ELTERN Der zweite Elternteil kommt über einen Einladungscode dazu und hat dieselben Rechte. Wer bestätigt hat, steht an der Aufgabe. FÜR DIE KINDER Ein Kindergerät wird über einen sechsstelligen Code verbunden – ohne E-Mail-Adresse, ohne Passwort, ohne Konto. Ein altes iPad tut es genauso wie ein Handy. Das Kind sieht seine Aufgaben und sein Guthaben und darf an seinem Profil genau zwei Dinge ändern: Avatar und Farbe. Der Name gehört den Eltern, das Guthaben erst recht. WAS DIE APP NICHT MACHT Keine Werbung. Keine Analyse-Dienste. Kein Tracking. Keine Weitergabe an Dritte. Kein echtes Geld, keine Zahlungsdaten, keine Bankverbindung. Deutsch und Englisch, umschaltbar auf jedem Gerät einzeln.

Screenshots

Controller for HomeKit4 screens
CrystaryX To Do4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CrystaryX To Do at none against Controller for HomeKit's 8. CrystaryX To Do also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Controller for HomeKit's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, update cadence and ads 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. CrystaryX To Do asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, CrystaryX To Do every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Controller for HomeKit versus CrystaryX To Do: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterController for HomeKitCrystaryX To Do
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeracasa Software GmbHViktor Bergen

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

CrystaryX To Do

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
None

CrystaryX To Do

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Controller for HomeKit free?
Controller for HomeKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CrystaryX To Do free?
CrystaryX To Do is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Controller for HomeKit or CrystaryX To Do have ads?
Neither Controller for HomeKit nor CrystaryX To Do shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Controller for HomeKit or CrystaryX To Do?
Controller for HomeKit ships an update every 2 weeks, and CrystaryX To Do every 6 days. Most recently, Controller for HomeKit was updated on November 2, 2026 and CrystaryX To Do on October 11, 2026.

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