Remote Control for HomeKit vs Smart Things
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remote Control for HomeKit
Effortlessly manage your smart home devices, including air conditioners, lamps, and speakers, from your phone. Adjust settings like temperature, color, and brightness with a user-friendly interface. Transform your living space into a connected, intelligent home.
- Control air conditioners (temp, modes, timer)
- Adjust smart lamps (color, brightness, timer)
- Manage speaker volume and playback
- Seamless smart home integration
- User-friendly interface
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Remote Control for HomeKit puts complete control of your smart home devices right in your pocket. Effortlessly manage air conditioners, smart lamps, speakers, and more with a beautifully designed interface optimized for your smart home. Key Features: - Control air conditioners with temperature, modes, and timer shutdown - Adjust smart lamps for color, brightness, and auto-off timer - Manage speakers for volume and playback control - Seamless integration with smart home ecosystem Transform your living space into a smart home with Remote Control for HomeKit — simple, powerful control for your connected devices. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. By using this app, you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AV8qCpqTZBslQXqKYt8Mi7dsppxoSDpY7RG9um6dO8Y/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1utxLqWKzLxdhd5CPlvP38vDAKejhVrlIADZP0BB01oU/edit?usp=sharing
Smart Things
Control all your smart home devices, including lights, thermostats, and cameras, from a single interface. Manage your smart TVs with integrated remotes and create custom scenes and automations for convenience. Personalize room aesthetics with custom wallpapers and accent colors.
- Control lights, thermostats, locks, and more
- Live view for HomeKit cameras and doorbells
- Remote control for smart TVs (Fire TV, Roku, Samsung, LG)
- Create custom scenes and automations
- Personalize room aesthetics with wallpapers
- Widgets and Control Center integration
- Siri and Shortcuts support
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Every accessory in your home, and every remote you actually reach for, in one app — on iPhone and iPad. CONTROL THE WHOLE HOME Lights, thermostats, locks, blinds, fans, sensors, purifiers, sprinklers, cameras. If HomeKit reports it, you can see it and set it. Each control is built from what the accessory says about itself, so a dimmer gets a slider, a color lamp gets a wheel, and a lock gets a lock — including accessories released after this app was. CAMERAS Watch your HomeKit cameras and doorbells live, with a fresh snapshot on each camera's card. TELEVISION REMOTES Fire TV, Roku, Samsung, LG and other smart TVs, found on your Wi-Fi and paired in seconds. A full directional pad, playback, volume, a keyboard for typing on the TV, and its apps a tap away. Assign a television to a room and it sits with everything else in that room. SCENES AND AUTOMATIONS Run a scene from anywhere in the app. Capture how your rooms are set right now and keep it as a scene, or rename, re-record and delete the ones you have. Build automations that run at a time of day, at sunrise or sunset, or when a sensor or accessory changes — motion detected, a door opened, a light switched on. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Run a scene or switch an accessory by voice, from Spotlight, the Shortcuts app or the Action button. MAKE EVERY ROOM ITS OWN Give each room a wallpaper — one of ours or a photo of yours — with an adjustable blur. Accent colors can follow the wallpaper automatically, so a room looks like itself rather than like a settings screen. WIDGETS AND CONTROL CENTER See how much of the house is on at a glance, switch an accessory or run a scene straight from the home screen, and keep your favorites in Control Center. Choose which room a widget follows and which scenes it shows. SMART THINGS PRO Seeing your home — every accessory's state, its readings and your cameras — and building scenes and automations are free. Controlling and adding accessories, running scenes, the TV remote, interactive widgets and your own room photos are part of Smart Things Pro, an auto-renewable subscription. Smart home control that shows you everything your accessories can do, and asks nothing you should not have to think about. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12voOgya1fD5zQagp2-4iQ6464r8q1ZW9uJ-vONIoucE/edit?usp=sharing Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1fA32bGcq7_uAz0_JcWQ_8VZb_0pWlH8Uq9nDysVwk/edit?usp=sharing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Remote Control for HomeKit at 5.0 against Smart Things's 3.0. Smart Things's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Remote Control for HomeKit sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Smart Things sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Remote Control for HomeKit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Remote Control for HomeKit ships an update every 2 months, Smart Things weekly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Remote Control for HomeKit | Smart Things |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HomeFlow Labs | Mikita Kharoshka |
Customer experience
Remote Control for HomeKit
Smart Things
In-app purchases
Remote Control for HomeKit
- Manage speakers$5.997 Days
- Seamless integration3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Remote Control for HomeKit3 Days trial$5.997 Days
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- HomeKit|Smart Home Remote3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Remote for HomeKit3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Control air conditioners$7.997 Days
- Adjust smart lamps for color$9.997 Days
- HomeKit Remote for Smart Home$19.991 Year
- HomeKit Remote Control$29.991 Year
- HomeKit Controller・Smart Home$39.991 Year
Smart Things
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Pro Monthly Special$5.991 Month
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- Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
Questions
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