Comparison

HomeHub+ vs ThreadMapper

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

Head to head
About

HomeHub+

This app combines a smart flip clock with extensive weather and calendar features, and a powerful HomeKit controller for managing smart home devices and cameras. It allows for creating custom dashboards and logging sensor data over time.

Highlights
  • Smart flip clock with customizable sounds and motion detection
  • World clock with analog/digital faces and satellite map
  • Live weather, rain forecast, and radar
  • HomeKit device control (lights, locks, thermostats)
  • HomeKit camera live streaming and snapshots
  • Customizable HomeKit dashboard with sensor logging
  • Interactive sensor charts with historical data
Features
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3 GREAT APPS IN 1 1. SMART FLIP CLOCK 2. HOMEKIT CONTROLLER 3. MASSIVE HOMEKIT DASHBOARD 1. SMART FLIP CLOCK & WIDGETS Transform your iPhone into a desk clock that never sleeps! It flips open with a cool 3D rotation and lets you add an hour chime with a bell sound or even have it say the time in your language. Plus, it automatically dims to save battery and wakes up when you walk by with motion detection. It’s a fantastic way to give your old iPhone a new purpose. - Clock: Flip clock showing hours, minutes and seconds, with an option to add chime and tick sounds. - World Clock: Choose between an analog or digital face with a satellite map and a live day/night view. - Date: Displays the current date. - Weather: Shows live conditions, temperature and wind using WeatherKit. - Rain Forecast: A 12-hour clock showing the chance of rain. - Rain Radar: An animated global radar with wind information. - Sunrise & Sunset: Tracks the sun’s path across the sky. - Moon Phase: Features a photorealistic moon with an animated star field. - UV Index: Displays the intensity level in colour. - Calendars, Reminders and Birthdays - RSS feeds - Countdown: Shows how many days are left until (or since) a specific date. - Alarm & Timer: Set daily alarms or countdowns with sound, haptic and visual alerts. - Now Playing: Controls music with artwork and AirPlay. - Photo: Slideshow from your photo albums. - Buienradar: Dutch rain radar with an intensity chart (NL only). - NS Trains: Shows live Dutch railway departures with a commute mode (NL only). 2. HOMEKIT CONTROLLER [In App Purchase] Manage your smart home directly from the dashboard—no need to switch apps! - Lights: Turn them on or off, adjust brightness, change colour temperature or set them to a preset colour. - Switches & Plugs: Toggle them with a single tap. - Locks: Lock and unlock with visual feedback. - Blinds: Adjust the position with a slider that has step controls. - Thermostat: Set your desired temperature with a heating/cooling indicator and see the outside temperature. - Scenes: Activate scenes with a single tap. HOMEKIT CAMERA [In App Purchase] See your HomeKit cameras as dashboard tiles with snapshots that refresh automatically or live streaming. Tap to view them full screen. 3. MASSIVE HOMEKIT DASHBOARD Create a full-screen home dashboard with modular rows. Mix tile rows (5–7 tiles wide) with chart rows (up to 3 side-by-side sensor charts). You can have up to 5 rows per page and 5 pages to design a command centre for your home. SENSOR LOGGER The Home app shows you what’s happening now, but HomeHub records everything. Turn on logging for any HomeKit sensor to create a history over days, weeks, months and years. - Temperature, humidity, motion, contact, light, air quality, CO/CO2, smoke, water leak, occupancy, battery - Smart logging: only records meaningful changes, not just noise - Interactive charts with pan, select and min/max/average stats - Live sensor values on dashboard tiles alongside your widgets - Relink data when accessories are renamed or moved All sensor readings sync across devices through iCloud. CUSTOMIZATION Choose from 9 font weights, Celsius or Fahrenheit, 12/24-hour time and customise each tile. Organise pages by room, purpose or mood. Drag tiles to reorder them and long-press for settings. PRIVACY FIRST All data stays in your iCloud account. No third-party servers or tracking. Languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese Requirements: - iOS 18.6 or later - HomeKit-compatible accessories for sensor and control features - Camera tile and control tiles available as in-app purchases

About

ThreadMapper

Visualize and diagnose your Thread smart home network. Understand device status, battery levels, and network health with clear grades and historical data. Offers advanced AI insights and AR mapping for detailed troubleshooting.

Highlights
  • Network health at a glance with A-F grade
  • Device status and battery levels
  • Mesh map visualization
  • Offline alerts with quiet respect
  • Device history and uptime tracking
  • AI Insights and troubleshooter
  • AR room mapping
Features
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ThreadMapper shows what your Thread smart home says about itself. Most Thread devices are invisible. They just work, until they don't, and there's no way to tell which one dropped, which border routers you really have, or whether a quiet sensor is asleep or gone. WHAT YOU GET • Network health at a glance: an A–F grade with a clear score, and the specific issues pulling it down • Better than yesterday? A line under the grade saying whether today is up or down on yesterday, and which rule moved it • Every battery in one list, emptiest first, with the room • Your Thread devices, apart from the rest: the ones that say they are on Thread, and every other accessory labelled for what it is, behind a bridge or not yet known • Mesh map: your Thread devices by room, and the links they report • Offline alerts that respect quiet: a sleepy sensor gets two hours before it is called offline, and devices that go quiet together are one event • Device history: uptime, reboots and firmware changes • Apple Watch app: your grade on your wrist • Home-screen widget and Live Activity for at-a-glance status HONEST ABOUT ITS DATA ThreadMapper shows only what a device or the network states. A device is Thread when it says so. A border router is one the network proves. A line on the map is a link a device reported. iOS doesn't expose radio signal strength for Thread accessories, so there is no signal figure: a device's page shows how quickly it answered, in milliseconds. The battery level is what each accessory reports about itself. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Everything stays on your iPhone, and the AI features run on device. Your network data is never uploaded. THREADMAPPER PRO: a one-time purchase, not a subscription • AI Insights, Network Assistant and a troubleshooter that reads this device's history, on device with Apple Intelligence • What the radios say: why a device rebooted, how often it changed parent router, how often a battery device wakes, and how many apps and households can still control it • AR room mapping and X-Ray: scan rooms into a floor plan, place each device where it really is, and see the links your devices report drawn through your real home • Your year on one card, your mesh as a twenty-second film, and as an A2 poster a print shop will take • A year of daily grades on one calendar, no Apple Intelligence needed, a month of history, weekly reports, and when your home is at its worst • Export every health sample, daily grade and battery reading as CSV or JSON, and import them on a new iPhone • Jobs and evidence sheets: a page for a client showing what a visit changed, and a page per device for a warranty claim • Device groups, multiple homes, scheduled reports and a pinned-devices widget REQUIREMENTS ThreadMapper reads your network through HomeKit, so you'll need a home with at least one Thread border router, such as a HomePod mini or an Apple TV 4K. Border routers are found through Local Network access. AI features need iOS 26 and an Apple Intelligence-capable device. Room scanning needs a Pro-model iPhone with a LiDAR scanner. Want to look around first? Turn on Demo Mode to explore the whole app with a simulated network, no hardware needed.

Screenshots

HomeHub+4 screens
ThreadMapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HomeHub+ at 100% against ThreadMapper's 0%. HomeHub+ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). ThreadMapper's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. HomeHub+ sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and ThreadMapper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HomeHub+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of HomeHub+'s written reviews are positive against 0% of ThreadMapper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeHub+ ships an update every 9 days, ThreadMapper every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HomeHub+ versus ThreadMapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeHub+ThreadMapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGijs RaggersTintin Razavian

Customer experience

HomeHub+

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ThreadMapper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HomeHub+

One-time2
  • HomeHub+ Camera tiles$1.99
  • HomeHub+ Control tiles$4.99
1 purchases

ThreadMapper

One-time1
  • PRO Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is HomeHub+ free?
HomeHub+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThreadMapper free?
ThreadMapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HomeHub+ or ThreadMapper?
HomeHub+ is rated higher. HomeHub+ averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while ThreadMapper averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HomeHub+ or ThreadMapper have ads?
Neither HomeHub+ nor ThreadMapper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeHub+ or ThreadMapper?
HomeHub+ ships an update every 9 days, and ThreadMapper every 4 days. Most recently, HomeHub+ was updated on August 22, 2026 and ThreadMapper on September 30, 2026.

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