Comparison

HomeWatch vs TagFrame

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

TagFrame

Features
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TagFrame is a modern app for inspecting, editing, and organizing MP3 ID3 metadata with confidence. Open a file, folder, playlist, or URL and explore everything inside the tag, from common album fields to chapters, artwork, raw frame data, and byte-level hex details. Built for podcasters, audiobook makers, collectors, and music library caretakers, TagFrame combines a clean interface with powerful batch tools. Features View and edit ID3 tags in Summary, Raw, and Hex views Inspect frame headers, body sizes, flags, and raw tag bytes Edit album, artist, title, track, genre, dates, URLs, comments, lyrics, and podcast fields Manage album artwork, chapter artwork, and embedded picture frames Import, edit, and visualize MP3 chapters View chapter markers on an audio waveform and jump through audio Batch-edit folders or selected files Look up album metadata with MusicBrainz Rename files from tag patterns and extract tags from filenames Find and replace tag text, including regex and case cleanup tools Import/export CSV tag data and M3U playlists Copy and paste tags between files Reveal, move, copy, or remove files from batch workflows Use Shortcuts/App Intents to add ID3 tags automatically TagFrame is designed to make metadata work feel visible, reversible, and precise, whether you are fixing one MP3 or preparing a full album or podcast release.

Screenshots

HomeWatch4 screens
TagFrame1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HomeWatch at none against TagFrame's 1. HomeWatch also leads on device support (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price 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. TagFrame sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HomeWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HomeWatch versus TagFrame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeWatchTagFrame
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPeter VogelsHolger Krupp

In-app purchases

None

HomeWatch

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TagFrame

One-time1
  • Save your edits$6.99

Questions

Is HomeWatch free?
HomeWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TagFrame free?
TagFrame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HomeWatch or TagFrame have ads?
Neither HomeWatch nor TagFrame shows ads.

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