HomeSnap vs ThreadMapper

HomeSnap gives you a clear, private view of your HomeKit home: glance at it from a widget, get told the moment something needs attention, ask it questions, and see exactly what changed over time. Read-only. On-device. No accounts. AT A GLANCE Add HomeSnap widgets to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy: - Low Batteries: every device running low, most urgent first, with a threshold you set per widget. - Unreachable Devices: anything offline, so you catch a dropped lock or camera fast. - Recent Changes: the latest activity in your home. - Device Status: choose one or more devices and see what they are doing right now. Larger sizes show more. ALERTS Get notified the first time a battery drops below your chosen level, or when a device goes offline. Both are optional, and both appear in your change history. A device's own low-battery warning always counts. Batteries section listing every battery device and its level, most urgent first. SIRI, SHORTCUTS & CONTROLS Say "Take a HomeSnap snapshot," add a one-tap button to Control Center or your Lock Screen, or build a daily automation so a fresh capture is guaranteed. SNAPSHOTS & CHANGES HomeSnap snapshots your entire HomeKit setup once a day (or whenever you want) and compares each capture to the last. You will know exactly when an accessory was added, removed, renamed, or moved; when a room, automation, or scene changed; when a device went offline. Every difference is color-coded, grouped by date, and searchable. You can easily now restore any devices that were removed. LIVE STATUS & EVENT LOG See what each device is doing right now across the app. Turn on the Event Log to capture a live stream of activity: lights, locks, doors, sensors, button presses. Lite mode keeps the signal; Full mode captures everything. Filter, search, and export. Always-On Mode turns an old iPhone or iPad on a charger into a continuous recorder. PRIVATE WEB DASHBOARD Flip on the Local Web Dashboard and open it from any device on your Wi-Fi: live tiles, an activity heatmap, charts, a streaming event feed, and per-room and per-device drill-ins. Served on your LAN only, with an optional password. PRIVACY HomeSnap is strictly read-only. It cannot toggle accessories, run scenes, or change any HomeKit configuration. Your home data stays on your device: no accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing about you or your home is ever transmitted off your device. Built for anyone who runs a HomeKit home and wants to see, at a glance and over time, how it is doing.

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 on any iPhone, and with Apple Intelligence a Network Assistant and a troubleshooter that reads this device's history, all on device • 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 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. The Network Assistant and the troubleshooter need iOS 26 and an Apple Intelligence-capable device; AI Insights works on any iPhone. 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.