Pi vs SunFounder Controller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pi
Control your Raspberry Pi-connected devices remotely. Open gates, garage doors, or capture images from connected cameras. Requires a compatible backend installation on your Raspberry Pi.
- Connect to Raspberry Pi
- Control gate doors
- Control garage doors
- Capture images from cameras
- Customizable backend API
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Pi-Home is a home automation app for tinkerers. Connect directly to your Raspberry Pi and open gate doors, garage doors, or take a picture with a camera board connected to your raspberry pi. To get started, install the phpCake backend to your Raspberry Pi, or implement your own backend that exposes the same API.
SunFounder Controller
This app acts as a virtual remote control for robot kits powered by ESP32 and Raspberry Pi. It offers customizable controls like radar ranging, tracking, sliders, buttons, and arrow keys for interactive robot operation.
- Virtual remote control
- ESP32 and Raspberry Pi compatibility
- Radar ranging control
- Three-channel tracking
- Customizable control layout
- Sliders, buttons, and arrow keys
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Sunfounder Controller is a virtual remote control APP, used to control ESP32 and Raspberry Pi-based robot kits. The APP integrates controls such as radar ranging, three-channel tracking, sliders, buttons, and arrow keys. Users can customize the arrangement of these controls according to their own preferences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pi at 5.0 against SunFounder Controller's 4.4. SunFounder Controller's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SunFounder Controller has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Pi | SunFounder Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 94.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axel Esselmann | Shenzhen Maker Stars Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Pi
SunFounder Controller
Bugs and requests
Pi
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SunFounder Controller
Reported bugs
2 issues- App disconnects and requires reinstallation to reconnect
- Link button is off-screen on iPhone XS Max
Requested features
2 requests- Add a list-box or radio-button widget class
- More warm functions
In-app purchases
Pi
No in-app purchases
SunFounder Controller
No in-app purchases
