HINT Control vs Elabify Maknoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HINT Control
Manage your T-Mobile Home Internet gateway with advanced features. Control WiFi settings, view statistics, and more. This app is not affiliated with T-Mobile.
- Advanced statistics
- WiFi radio control
- SSID management
- Band steering
- Gateway access
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HINT Control is a cross-platform app for accessing and managing your T-Mobile Home Internet gateway, with some extra features compared to the official app. Features include advanced statistics, WiFi radio control, SSID management, and band steering, with more to come as more is discovered about the gateways. HINT Control currently supports the Arcadyan KVD21, the Arcadyan TMOG4AR, the Sagemcom Fast 5688W, the Sercomm TMOG4SE, and the Noka 5G21. The Askey LTE gateway is not supported at this time. This app is NOT affiliated with T-Mobile. HINT Control is open source and also available for other platforms. Check out the downloads and source code at https://github.com/zacharee/ArcadyanKVD21Control/.
Elabify Maknoon
Manage your digital identity, assets, and privacy securely in a post-quantum world. This open-source app allows you to self-custody credentials, prove identity selectively, and manage multiple cryptocurrency wallets.
- Decentralized Identity with Sovereign Trust Anchor
- Receive verified credentials
- Selective disclosure for proving identity
- Full custody Bitcoin wallet with hardware support
- Manage Ethereum, Solana, and Tron wallets
- Privacy-focused with data on-device
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Elabify Maknoon is your identity, assets and privacy in applications, built for a post-quantum world. Maknoon is open source and holds the things that matter: your identity, your assets, and your privacy. Tap your international passport receive a verified credential that you can self custody and use to privately prove your identity. Your Bitcoin, Bitcoin Lightning, Ethereum, Solana, and Tron wallets are supported along with hardware wallet signing. What you can do today: • Decentralized Identity with Sovereign Trust Anchor: Tap your e-passport with NFC • Receive verified credentials from any Elabify-compatible issuer • Present a credential to a verifier with selective disclosure. Prove your age, your residency, or your wallet ownership without revealing the underlying document. • Manage a Bitcoin wallet with full custody, hardware-wallets, and Lightning. • Manage Ethereum, Solana, and Tron wallets What stays on your device: Maknoon is designed for privacy and self custody. Your recovery phrase, your passport chip data, your photo, your credentials, and your wallet balances live on the iPhone in the Secure Enclave. When you present a credential you can chose what to disclose. No analytics and no tracking. Use your own self-hosted nodes and servers. Privacy is always first, and privacy is normal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elabify Maknoon at 5.0 against HINT Control's 4.3. Elabify Maknoon also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). HINT Control's advantage is ratings volume (113 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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.
Elabify Maknoon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HINT Control has 113 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HINT Control ships an update every 2 weeks, Elabify Maknoon every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HINT Control | Elabify Maknoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (113 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wander | Elabify |
Customer experience
HINT Control
Elabify Maknoon
Bugs and requests
HINT Control
Reported bugs
18 issues- UI bug hides settings on SSID management page
- Cannot disable 5ghz wifi after warning
- Disabling 5ghz radio breaks gateway functionality
- Latest update crashes repeatedly
- Not compatible with newly released G5AR T-Mobile gateway
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- Invalid JSON error when trying to log in
- Latest update crashes over and over
- G4AR not showing LTE stats
- Cannot paste password or use password manager to login
- Keyboard will not reduce on login screen (iPhone 11 Pro)
- App doesn't work with VoiceOver
- Unauthorized Error at Login
- Doesn’t work - Unauthorized error
- Doesn’t work - unauthorized access error
- Changed channel, now cannot connect on other devices, requires factory reset
- Latest update breaks Sagemcom gateway, won't pass login screen
- Cannot pick channel 36 for 5ghz, always goes to channel 40
- No G4AR support
Requested features
14 requests- Add automatic reboot schedule (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Trigger reboot on connection loss
- Add Beacon Interval control
- Add more Transmit Power control (e.g., 8mW on 5GHz, 21mW on 2.4GHz)
- Advanced control with number input for transmit power
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- Restore transmit power slider
- Add temperature of gateway
- Allow users to name unknown devices
- Clarify named devices further
- Add port forwarding controls
- Add DMZ controls
- Support for G4AR gateway
- Adjust APN settings
- Web app version
Elabify Maknoon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HINT Control
No in-app purchases
Elabify Maknoon
No in-app purchases
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