Comparison

Homerise vs Dotchii

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

Head to head
About

Homerise

Control your smart home devices with intuitive gestures and spatial widgets. Visualize and manage your home's accessories through interactive floor plans and augmented reality.

Highlights
  • Spatial widgets with persistent placement
  • Wrist control with room awareness
  • Customizable dashboard
  • Interactive floor plan view
  • Augmented reality remote control
  • Preset configurations for scenes
Features
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Homerise leverages HomeKit to provide intuitive and expressive ways to control your smart home. IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Bring your smart home to life on Vision Pro with the new Immersive Experience! Spatial Widgets - Persistent Placement : Widgets stay exactly where you place them, even after a reboot. - Wall Snapping: Widgets feel like they’re truly part of your space. - Wall Occlusion & Proximity Activation: Widgets automatically hide or minimize to keep your field of view clear. Wrist Control - Seamless control: Lift your left wrist and control your smart home, just like in your favourite Sci-Fi! - Room Awareness: Walk into another room and the controls adapt automatically. DASHBOARD An overview of your entire home and fine control over your accessories! Build your ideal dashboard with a wide variety of customizable widgets. FLOOR PLAN Add markers and widgets to the floor plan of your home and easily interact with your devices. Choose which markers and widgets are shown according to the zoom level, this way you can seamlessly go from controlling a single device, room by room, up to your entire home. AR REMOTE Place markers in Augmented Reality in your actual living space and then interact with them just by pointing with your phone like a remote control. Magical! Here you can tap and swipe, but also tilt your phone to control your accessories. Naturally, you can also customize the actions behind each gesture. PRESETS Create templates of your favorite configurations and reuse them easily throughout the app in markers and scenes. With lighting presets you can easily create a colorful palette from a picture and set a lighting ambiance with just a tap :) Homerise main goal is to enhance the way you interact with your smart home. Privacy policy: https://www.homerise.app/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.homerise.app/terms

About

Dotchii

Features
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Dotchii helps you run focused training sessions and keep a clear history for every pet. Use a precise session timer, log what you practiced, tag tricks and skills, and review your timeline at a glance. Your training notes stay with you on iPhone and sync privately across your devices with iCloud—so staying consistent with your dog’s training is simpler. Helpful Dotchii features for pet parents and trainers: Session chronometer with start, pause, and restart for accurate training time Training log with editable duration, date, and the pet the session belongs to Tag tricks and skills on each session so you can see patterns over time Optional notes to capture context, wins, and what to improve next Beautiful training history timeline per pet—duration, tags, and notes in one place Switch between pets and keep each profile’s sessions organized iCloud sync so your logs follow you to your other devices (private database) Live Activities support to keep session timing glanceable while you train Designed with accessibility in mind, including VoiceOver-friendly controls A calm, focused training flow—no extra hardware required Some features may require Dotchii Premium (free trial available where offered). HOW DOTCHII SUPPORTS YOUR TRAINING Time every session Start the chronometer when training begins, pause when you need a break, and restart with confidence. When you’re done, save the duration and move straight into logging—so every minute you spend training is reflected in your history. Capture the full picture On the log screen, adjust duration if needed, pick the right pet, set the session date, attach multiple tags for tricks or exercises, and add observations. One place to record what happened and why it mattered. See progress over time Your training history shows past sessions in a clear timeline: when you trained, how long you spent, which tags you used, and your notes. Spot streaks, revisit successful sessions, and plan the next step with confidence. Train anywhere, sync everywhere Dotchii uses your personal iCloud to sync training data across devices signed in with the same Apple ID. Practice at home, review on another device—your timeline stays up to date. Stay in the flow Live Activities help you keep session timing visible without digging back into the app mid-session—so you can focus on your dog, not the clock. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pepocoding.dev/privacy-policies/dotchii

Screenshots

Homerise2 screens
Dotchii4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dotchii at daily against Homerise's every 3 weeks. Dotchii also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Homerise's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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. Homerise sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Dotchii sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Homerise ships an update every 3 weeks, Dotchii daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Homerise versus Dotchii: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeriseDotchii
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB23 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMATTERFUL STUDIOSPedro Henrique Sudario da Silva

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Homerise

Subscriptions4
  • Subscription small pack1 Month trial$1.991 Year
  • Subscription medium pack1 Month trial$3.991 Year
  • Subscription large pack1 Month trial$5.991 Year
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  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time4
  • Lifetime small pack5 variants$9.99
  • Lifetime medium pack2 variants$19.99
  • Lifetime large pack$29.99
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  • Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Dotchii

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Homerise free?
Homerise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotchii free?
Dotchii is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Homerise or Dotchii have ads?
Neither Homerise nor Dotchii shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Homerise or Dotchii?
Homerise ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dotchii daily. Most recently, Homerise was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dotchii on October 5, 2026.

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