Controller for HomeKit vs Fil
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/
Fil
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Fil est votre mémoire relationnelle. L'application qui vous aide à rester vraiment présent pour les personnes qui comptent, sans y penser en permanence. Nous voulons tous prendre soin de nos proches. Mais la vie va vite, et les bonnes intentions se perdent. Fil retient pour vous ce qui compte, vous rappelle au bon moment, et vous aide même à trouver les mots. CE QUE FIL FAIT POUR VOUS Une fiche par personne : notes, dates, événements et petites attentions, tout au même endroit. Des rappels au bon moment : ne manquez plus un anniversaire, une nouvelle à prendre, un moment important. Une frise de vie : gardez la trace des grands moments de chaque relation. Des messages prêts à envoyer : Fil vous propose le bon mot, dans le ton et la longueur que vous choisissez. Des mémos analysés : notez une pensée en un instant, Fil en fait ressortir l'essentiel. PENSÉE POUR VOTRE VIE PRIVÉE Vos données vous appartiennent. Elles sont d'abord stockées sur votre téléphone. La sauvegarde dans le cloud est facultative, hébergée en Europe, avec un chiffrement de bout en bout en option. Aucune publicité, aucune revente de données. GRATUIT, ET PLUS SI VOUS LE SOUHAITEZ Fil est gratuit pour l'essentiel : jusqu'à 10 relations, rappels, frise de vie et export vers Google Agenda. L'abonnement Fil Premium (4,99 € par mois) débloque les relations illimitées, les analyses de mémo et la génération de messages en grand nombre. Fil, pour devenir, tout simplement, le meilleur des amis. Abonnement Fil Premium : 4,99 € par mois. Le paiement est débité sur votre compte Apple à la confirmation de l'achat. L'abonnement se renouvelle automatiquement, sauf résiliation au moins 24 heures avant la fin de la période en cours. Vous pouvez gérer ou résilier votre abonnement dans les réglages de votre compte Apple. Politique de confidentialité : https://gertrudeetjosefa.fr/fil/confidentialite.html Conditions d'utilisation (EULA) : https://gertrudeetjosefa.fr/fil/cgu.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Controller for HomeKit at 5 against Fil's 2. Fil'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
Both are free to download. Controller for HomeKit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Fil sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Controller for HomeKit | Fil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | 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, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 232 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acasa Software GmbH | Roxane CADEIL |
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
Fil
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
Fil
- Fil Premium$3.991 Month
Questions
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