Logitech Alert vs Controller for HomeKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Logitech Alert
Monitor your home security system remotely. View live video and audio streams from your cameras, access recorded footage, and manage motion alerts directly from your iPhone or iPad. Optimized for Wi-Fi for the best performance.
- Live video and audio streaming
- Access on-camera DVR recordings
- Motion detection alert management
- Secure username and password access
- Landscape and portrait viewing
- Mobile Commander features
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Get the power and freedom to connect to your Logitech Alert™ Video Security System with an app designed specifically for your iPhone, iPad or iPod. NOTE: This app only supports Logitech Alert cameras, not WiLife cameras. CHECK STATUS See an fresh image from your cameras see as soon as you login. WATCH LIVE VIDEO - HEAR AUDIO Check in on your cameras anytime and watch H.264 video, optionally with audio, streaming live from your cameras. ACCESS YOUR ON-CAMERA DVR Watch the high-quality video recordings, including audio, created when your camera detected motion while you were away. Interact with your recordings using pause or quickly move to early or later clips (Mobile Commander feature). CHANGE ALERTS Turn motion alerts on or off with the flick of your finger (Mobile Commander feature). VIEW IN LANDCAPE OR PORTRAIT Rotate your device to landscape or portrait as you navigate through your cameras and watch video. SECURE ACCESS Your cameras are always secure and only accessible with the username and password you create. OPTIMIZED FOR WI-FI Stream directly from your cameras when your device and cameras are on the same Wi-Fi network. Please use Wi-Fi for the best video and audio performance and experience. SUPPORTS: iOS 8.4 and higher supported devices. PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://alert.logitech.com/privacy
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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Controller for HomeKit at 4.1 against Logitech Alert's 3.3. Controller for HomeKit also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 245). Logitech Alert's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and review sentiment (48% vs 29%). 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
Both are free to download. Controller for HomeKit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Logitech Alert asks for nothing beyond the download.
Controller for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Controller for HomeKit has 2.8K ratings behind it against 245, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Logitech Alert's written reviews are positive against 29% of Controller for HomeKit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Logitech Alert ships an update every 5 months, Controller for HomeKit every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Logitech Alert | Controller for HomeKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (245 ratings) | 4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.8% of reviews — better | 28.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 245 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 232 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Logitech Inc. | acasa Software GmbH |
Customer experience
Logitech Alert
Controller for HomeKit
User reviews
Logitech Alert
From 245 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Still being used
- ⭐ Quality service for legacy system
- ⭐ Excellent app
- ⭐ Logitech wonder
- ⭐ Great software
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is offline
- 🐛 Not working very disappointed
- 🐛 App no longer works
- 🐛 Obsolete
- 🐛 Seems to be dead
Controller for HomeKit
From 2.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Powerful automation features
- 📚 Helpful backup and restore functionality
- 🔍 Detailed logging and troubleshooting
- 🧠 Advanced HomeKit control and customization
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crash-prone
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🤖 Poor customer support
- 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive UI
Bugs and requests
Logitech Alert
Reported bugs
6 issues- No video on iPhone App
- App closes when trying to see other camera sites
- iPhone app no longer shows history clips
- Live streaming not working on iOS 10
- Login screen freezes
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- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to view recorded clips without paying subscription
- Push notifications for motion alerts
- Time option for setting motion alerts
- Support for Wilife cameras
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
In-app purchases
Logitech Alert
No 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
Questions
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