Comparison

HomeMapper vs Atlas Time

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

Head to head
About

HomeMapper

This app provides a unified inventory of all devices on your smart home network. It scans HomeKit, Home Assistant, Thread, Matter, and IP devices, correlating them by hardware identifiers to display comprehensive details in one view. It also helps manage setup codes for various smart home devices.

Highlights
  • Unified device inventory
  • Scans HomeKit, Home Assistant, Thread, Matter, IP
  • Correlates devices by hardware identifiers
  • Detailed device information
  • Setup code vault for HomeKit, Matter, Z-Wave
  • Export inventory to CSV
  • Room-based device grouping
Features
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Your entire smart home network. One view. HomeMapper builds a unified inventory of every device on your network, scanning HomeKit, Home Assistant, Thread, Matter, and IP at once and correlating them by hardware identifiers. DISCOVER Every method runs at once: • Apple's ecosystem. HomeKit via Apple's framework, plus Thread accessories, Border Routers, and Matter. • The network itself. Bonjour, subnet scans, and protocols like SSDP/UPnP. Printers, NAS boxes, and other local-only devices show up too. • Home Assistant. Direct read of your device registry: Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave, ESPHome, and MQTT. When a device appears through several methods, HomeMapper merges it by seven hardware identifiers, not names. Anything uncertain stays as duplicates, never a guess. YOUR DEVICES, EVERY DETAIL See devices Apple's Home app can't, and the details it tucks away: manufacturer, model, firmware, serial number, battery, IP and MAC address, and how each device connects, in columns like Connected via, Signal, Channel, and Stability. On iPad and Mac, devices appear as a sortable table; on iPhone, as detail cards. A room-based view groups them by room. TOPOLOGY MAP The Topology map draws your smart home the way it is wired: your Thread mesh, from the border routers down to the end devices they carry, and each HomeKit bridge with the accessories behind it. It draws only connections it can measure. Filter to the whole picture, just the Thread mesh, or just your bridges. Tap a device for its full detail, or tap a connection to see its signal strength and how stable it has been. A red triangle marks a connection that is not working: weak, dropping traffic, or gone quiet. When a device will not report how it connects, HomeMapper says so rather than inferring a connection. A Health view lists what needs attention on your mesh, worst first: what is wrong, which devices, and one thing to try. Most homes read "Everything looks healthy." Export the map as a PNG, PDF, or SVG, titled with the home and dated. It also reads each Thread device's mesh role, and each Border Router's Extended PAN ID and Thread version, hidden in the Home app. HOME ASSISTANT HomeMapper scans your Home Assistant instance as deeply as HomeKit. Zigbee, Z-Wave, ESPHome, MQTT: devices HomeKit can't see appear alongside the ones it can. Pick a Primary Platform, and its room names win when a device is known to both. SETUP CODE VAULT Every HomeKit, Matter, and Z-Wave device has a setup code on a sticker that fades or gets lost. You need it to pair the device, and again if you reset or move it. No scan can recover one: setup codes never travel over the network. Save each code while you still have it: scan the QR with the camera, pull it from a photo, or type it in. It reads printed 8-digit codes too, for older accessories without a QR. A room-by-room list shows which devices are still missing one. Have a lot? Export a CSV worksheet, fill it in on a computer, and import it back. Your codes stay yours: on your device, in your backups, and synced through your own iCloud. EXPORT AND BACK UP Export your inventory to CSV, filtered how you want, for Numbers, Excel, or Sheets. Back up your inventory, settings, and setup codes to iCloud Drive or a local folder, and restore on another device. PRIVACY You are not the product. Zero ads, zero tracking. Nothing leaves your device unless you send it. No account, and the only login is your own Home Assistant. FREE AND PRO HomeKit scanning, the device list, the room-based view, and switching between Apple Homes are free forever, with no scan or time limits. Pro unlocks multi-protocol scanning, all 20+ columns, the combined "All Homes" view, Home Assistant, the Topology map, the setup code vault, backup and restore, and CSV export. Subscribe yearly with a 7-day free trial, or buy Lifetime once and it never expires. Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Terms of Use: https://homemapper.app/terms/

About

Atlas Time

Visualize global time zones and daylight patterns. Coordinate international meetings, plan travel, or simply explore the Earth's illumination at any given moment. Compare local times, dates, and sunrise/sunset information for multiple cities.

Highlights
  • Global time zone comparison
  • Daylight and night boundary visualization
  • Sunrise and sunset information
  • Offline city catalog
  • Works offline
  • No account required
Features
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Atlas Time creates a portrait of one shared moment across the globe. Coordinate a global meeting, plan travel, find the right time to call someone abroad, setup your world clock, or simply explore our beautiful blue planet. Swipe through time and watch the boundary between day and night move across Earth. Pinch to zoom and see more detail. Choose any date and time to see how daylight changes throughout the year or see everywhere sunlight reaches right now. Add cities and compare local times, dates, UTC offsets, daylight saving status, and sunrise or sunset information at a glance. Atlas Time includes a curated offline city catalog and is designed for iPhone and iPad, with landscape layouts that make full use of larger screens. The complete app works offline and requires no account or sign-in. One purchase includes everything, zero ads, no subscriptions, no gated content. Atlas Time includes Earth imagery adapted from NASA Earth Observatory’s Blue Marble Next Generation and Black Marble datasets. NASA does not endorse Atlas Time, and no affiliation is implied.

Screenshots

HomeMapper4 screens
Atlas Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HomeMapper at Free against Atlas Time's $0.99. HomeMapper also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Atlas Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, 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

HomeMapper is free to download; Atlas Time costs $0.99 up front. HomeMapper sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Atlas Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HomeMapper against 5.0 for Atlas Time. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HomeMapper has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HomeMapper ships an update weekly, Atlas Time every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HomeMapper versus Atlas Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeMapperAtlas Time
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.418.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVault Hunters NM LLCHoward Patty

Customer experience

HomeMapper

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Atlas Time

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HomeMapper

Subscriptions1
  • HomeMapper Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
None

Atlas Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeMapper free?
HomeMapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Atlas Time free?
Atlas Time costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HomeMapper or Atlas Time?
HomeMapper and Atlas Time are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do HomeMapper or Atlas Time have ads?
Neither HomeMapper nor Atlas Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HomeMapper or Atlas Time?
HomeMapper ships an update weekly, and Atlas Time every 10 days. Most recently, HomeMapper was updated on October 24, 2026 and Atlas Time on October 19, 2026.

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