Comparison

HomeWatch vs Your Tracks

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

Head to head
About

HomeWatch

Monitor and control your HomeKit devices with a glanceable status display. This app offers customizable views for rooms, scenes, and individual devices across Apple platforms, including widgets and menu bar items.

Highlights
  • Glanceable room status with color-coded indicators
  • Control scenes and devices within rooms
  • View camera feeds, weather, and website content
  • Customizable home and lock-screen widgets
  • Menu bar items for Mac with real-time updates
  • Extensive interface customization options
Features
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I made an app for my Apple Watch to see a glanceable status of our home and to control our HomeKit devices. It worked so well on the watch, that I expanded it to a dashboard app for all our Apple devices. I have now added a configuration interface to make it compatible with any HomeKit enabled home setup. I hope some of you will find it useful. HOME VIEW The circle / grid with icons on the home view shows a color coded status of the rooms of the home: red when a door is open, yellow when a window is open, orange when the heating is on, cyan when lights are on and green when nothing is on. On the iPhone, iPad, tvOS and Mac the app also shows the time, date, cameras, feeds, events, reminders, a website and weather information. When there is rain, it will show a rain graph. ROOM VIEWS When a room is selected, the circle layout will show the scenes you can control in that room. The grid layout also shows the devices that can be controlled in that room. Additionally the room view has an information section. To the right it can show any characteristics from your devices. Below is a detail view that can show a camera view, a website, a temperature, humidity and climate history graphs. WIDGETS Fully customisable lock-screen and home-screen widgets. Tap / Clicking a widget item to go directly to a room view, execute a scene or launch any url-scheme. Customisable complications on the Watch can have actions to go directly to a room view and execute any scene. MENU BAR ITEMS On the Mac any HomeKit characteristic can be added to the menu bar and is kept up to date. CUSTOMISATION The interface can be fully customised. The user can add their own background images and icons from the photo library. Customise gradient overlays, icons, fonts, colours and more. Make it your own…

About

Your Tracks

Features
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Plan your brick train layout, run a train round it, then see it at real size on your floor. Ever spent an hour laying track on the living-room floor, only to find you're two curves short? Your Tracks is the design studio for brick-built railways — from a first oval with the kids to a two-table club layout. Snap real pieces together, let the app close the loop for you, and know it'll fit before you open a single box. NEW: SEE IT ON YOUR FLOOR Point your iPhone or iPad at the floor and drop your layout down at true 1:1 size. Walk round it, check it clears the sofa, then send a train round the track and tap the switches to change its route. Tabletop mode shrinks it to 1:8 for the desk, and snapshots save straight to Photos. NEW: CLOSE GAP Two loose ends that won't meet? Select them and Your Tracks finds up to three ways to join them with real pieces — adding a few gently bent flex sections when nothing else fits exactly. Preview each option, then add it with one tap. PLAN • Smart snapping — pieces join at their real connection points, rotations worked out for you, and you'll know the moment a loop closes • Brick-track library — straights, half and quarter straights, R40 curves, switches, crossings, the double crossover and flex track, all to true scale in studs • TrixBrix range — 100+ pieces: wide curves, switches, crossings, narrow and dual gauge • Baseplates — 32×32 and 16×16 plates in 11 colours, to plan the town around your railway • Areas — mark the space you really have: rectangles, circles or ovals, in centimetres or plates, with floors from carpet to wood EDIT • Select whole routes, or just the run between two pieces • Move, rotate, flip and duplicate whole sections at once • Copy and paste between layouts — even paste a mirror image • 50 levels of undo, shake to undo and the three-finger swipe RUN • Virtual train — steam, TGV or classic brick • Tap to go faster, flip switches as it runs, and watch it follow every curve and crossover KEEP & SHARE • Unlimited layouts, favourites and auto-save • Parts list — see exactly how many of each piece you need, so the shopping list writes itself • Crisp PNG exports for your group chat, forum or club • Three looks: cel-shaded, minimal or bricks Built for iPhone and iPad. No account. No ads. No in-app purchases. Designed by train builders, for train builders. TrixBrix is a trademark of its respective owner.

Screenshots

HomeWatch4 screens
Your Tracks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HomeWatch at Free against Your Tracks's $1.99. HomeWatch also leads on device support (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Your Tracks's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On 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

HomeWatch is free to download; Your Tracks costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeWatch ships an update every 2 months, Your Tracks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HomeWatch versus Your Tracks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeWatchYour Tracks
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPeter VogelsBryan Simpson

In-app purchases

None

HomeWatch

No in-app purchases

None

Your Tracks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeWatch free?
HomeWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Your Tracks free?
Your Tracks costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do HomeWatch or Your Tracks have ads?
Neither HomeWatch nor Your Tracks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeWatch or Your Tracks?
HomeWatch ships an update every 2 months, and Your Tracks fortnightly. Most recently, HomeWatch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Your Tracks on October 28, 2026.

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