HINT Control vs Station Insight
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/.
Station Insight
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Station Insight turns your Ambient Weather station into a live dashboard for the spaces you manage — the greenhouse, the server closet, the nursery, your home. It's a companion app for Ambient Weather station owners; you'll need a station (or the built-in demo) to use it. A DASHBOARD FOR EVERY SPACE Group the sensors you care about into dashboards — one for the greenhouse, one for the house, one for the lab — and switch between them with a tap. Rename any sensor so "Temp 1" becomes "Greenhouse". WIDGETS FOR HOME AND LOCK SCREEN Put any dashboard on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Each widget can show a different dashboard, in every widget size — the readings you care about, without opening the app. WORKS WITH SHORTCUTS AND SIRI Ask for any reading or a whole dashboard from the Shortcuts app or Siri — "Check my station in Station Insight." Readings come back with their value, unit, and threshold status, so you can build automations like "every morning at 7, if the greenhouse is below 40°, notify me." Data-only steps run in the background without opening the app. COMBINE READINGS Create custom readings that combine sensors, like the difference between outside and inside temperature, and put those on dashboards, widgets, and in Shortcuts too. KNOW THE MOMENT SOMETHING DRIFTS Set a low and high threshold on any reading and its tile warns you — amber as the value nears the limit, then a bold "Out of Range" flag when it crosses. Add your own note to a notification — "Outside has cooled to inside — turn off the A/C" — so the alert tells you what to do, not just what happened. BUILT TO BE ACCESSIBLE Every reading, alert state, and control is labeled for VoiceOver, text scales to the largest accessibility sizes, and threshold warnings are spelled out in words — never signaled by color alone. Full Dark Mode, too. YOUR UNITS Imperial, metric, or follow your device — °F/°C, mph/km/h, in/mm, inHg/hPa. TRY IT WITHOUT HARDWARE No station yet? The built-in demo serves realistic readings through the full app — dashboards, thresholds, and a live alert scenario — so you can explore everything before you buy a station. CONNECT YOUR STATION Enter your Ambient Weather API key and every sensor your station reports appears in seconds: temperature, humidity, wind, rain, soil moisture, air quality, barometric pressure, and more. Requires an Ambient Weather station and its API key. (Other platforms may be added later.) Your API key is stored securely in the device Keychain and readings go directly from the weather service to your device — no accounts, no middleman server. I've run an Ambient Weather station for years, and kept wishing it did more with the data. So I built Station Insight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HINT Control at Free against Station Insight's $2.99. HINT Control also leads on ratings volume (113 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Station Insight's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
HINT Control is free to download; Station Insight costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Station Insight 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.
| Parameter | HINT Control | Station Insight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| 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 | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wander | Robert Roy |
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
Station Insight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HINT Control
No in-app purchases
Station Insight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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