Comparison

Domika vs Tepi

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

Head to head
About

Domika

Control your smart home devices with this native iOS app for Home Assistant. It offers convenient access through home screen widgets, lock screen buttons, and control center shortcuts for everyday tasks like adjusting lights or AC. Get critical alerts for leaks and fires with an optional subscription.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen buttons
  • Control center buttons
  • Critical push notifications
  • Multiple Home Assistant instance support
  • Compact dashboards
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The only fully native iOS app for Home Assistant. Domika supports home screen widgets, lock screen buttons, control center buttons, and sleek, compact dashboards. Domika is an unofficial Home Assistant app designed for simplicity. While it doesn’t cover every feature—like setting up new devices, creating automations, or adding integrations—it focuses on what you do most often. Domika makes it easy to turn off lights, adjust the AC, or close the garage in a straightforward, convenient way. Plus, it offers unique features: — Home screen widgets — Lock screen buttons — Control center buttons — Critical push notifications for events like fire or water leaks If you have multiple Home Assistant instances, Domika has you covered! You can add widgets and controls from multiple homes. Domika dashboards are free to use. A subscription is only needed for system widgets, critical push notifications, and shortcuts. Terms of Use: https://domika.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://domika.app/privacy_policy/

About

Tepi

Features
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Tepi puts every tado° room in one place. If your home mixes tado° V3+ and tado° X, or spreads them across two tado° accounts, you know the problem: two apps, or endless switching between homes. Tepi shows every room in a single list, with the same controls, and never asks which generation you meant. LOCAL, AND NO TADO° SIGN-IN NEEDED Every room, temperature and switch works without one. Changes go straight to the valve over HomeKit, on your own network: in under a second, with no round trip through anyone's servers, and they keep working when your internet is down or tado's API isn't answering. Signing in is optional. It adds what HomeKit doesn't carry: matching rooms to tado°, device health, day-by-day history for V3+, handing a room back to its tado° schedule, and reaching your home when you're away without a HomePod or Apple TV. WHAT'S IN IT • Every room, both generations, all accounts, with current temperature, target, humidity and whether the radiator is actually heating • tado° X paired straight to Apple Home, one room per room however many devices it has • Instant control: drag the bar, nudge by half a degree, Boost or Off • Room groups: switch Upstairs off, or send the bedrooms to Eco, in one tap • Comfort and Eco: two temperatures you set once and send to every room or to a group • Quick actions: All off, Comfort, Eco and Resume from the Home Screen icon • Favourites, custom names, hidden rooms and drag-to-reorder • Link a room to its tado° room by hand when the names don't match • One tap to hand a room, a group or the whole house back to its tado° schedule • Siri and Shortcuts: a room, a group or the whole house, by voice or in a shortcut • Apple Watch: every room on your wrist, with the Digital Crown, Off, Boost, Comfort, Eco and your groups • Room history for tado° V3+, kept by tado°, so it's complete even when the app was closed • Battery, firmware and connectivity for every device TEPI ASSIST (EXPERIMENTAL, OPTIONAL) Off until you turn it on. Presence reminds you when you leave home and when you come back: one tap sets the house to Eco, or hands it back to its tado° schedule. Suggestions learn what you usually do and offer it at the right moment, as few or as many as you like. With Apple Weather on, it also suggests heating up before a cold evening. Tepi learns on your iPhone, and nothing changes until you tap. WHAT IT NEEDS Your tado° devices have to be visible in Apple's Home app. For tado° V3+ that's the Internet Bridge you already own; no hub is required. tado° X uses Matter over Thread, so your home needs Thread, usually from a HomePod, an Apple TV or another Thread border router. Tepi explains what's missing. PRIVACY No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your tado° data goes from tado° to your phone and nowhere else, and nothing is collected in the background. If you use Presence, your exact home location stays on your iPhone too. The only thing that ever reaches the developer is a support email, if you write one. You can attach a short summary of your setup: it's off unless you turn it on, and you see every word first. FREE, AND DELIBERATELY SMALL No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. Tepi is built by one person who got tired of switching between two apps to heat one house. Feedback is very welcome: hello@tepiapp.com. Tepi is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by tado GmbH. tado° is a trademark of tado GmbH.

Screenshots

Domika4 screens
Tepi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tepi at none against Domika's 7. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Domika sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tepi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Domika ships an update weekly, Tepi every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Domika versus Tepi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDomikaTepi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDEVPOCKET LLCThiago Regal da Silva

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Domika

Subscriptions5
  • Domika Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Domika Family Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium features$4.991 Year
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  • Domika Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Domika Family Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Thanks Tip$2.49
  • Coffee Tip$4.99
None

Tepi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Domika free?
Domika is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tepi free?
Tepi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Domika or Tepi have ads?
Neither Domika nor Tepi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Domika or Tepi?
Domika ships an update weekly, and Tepi every 5 days. Most recently, Domika was updated on October 19, 2026 and Tepi on October 16, 2026.

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