Comparison

Mikonus for Home Assistant vs PC Controller

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

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Mikonus for Home Assistant

Features
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Your home becomes the dashboard. Mikonus transforms your real home into an interactive 3D interface for your smart home. Create your house or apartment once in Mikonus, connect your devices, and control lights, climate, blinds, sensors and more exactly where they are located. Then publish your home as an interactive 3D dashboard in Home Assistant or Homey — without having to build your dashboard in YAML. 3D DASHBOARDS FOR HOME ASSISTANT AND HOMEY Create and edit your home in Mikonus. Rooms, furniture, smart-home devices and their connections can then be published as a dashboard scene. Use your home on tablets, wall displays or desktop dashboards. When your home changes, simply edit it in Mikonus and publish the updated version again. YOUR SMART HOME — WHERE IT ACTUALLY IS No long device lists. No cryptic entity names. Tap a room or an object and control your devices directly in the spatial view. Blinds show their current position, sensor values appear inside your rooms, and supported devices visually react to their state. The lamp next to the sofa? Control it right there. CONNECT YOUR SMART HOME Mikonus connects to existing smart-home systems, including: • Home Assistant • Homey • Philips Hue • Apple Home / HomeKit Depending on the provider and device, you can: • Turn lights on and off, dim them and change colors • Adjust temperatures • Control blinds and shades • Control fans • View and control doors and locks • See sensor values directly in your rooms • View cameras • Trigger scenes and automations • Visualize energy and device states Available functionality depends on the connected smart-home system and device. SCAN WITH LiDAR OR DRAW IT YOURSELF On supported iPhone and iPad models, capture your home using LiDAR and Apple RoomPlan. Or create your entire floor plan yourself with the integrated 2D editor. Edit walls, doors, windows and room boundaries, then turn your floor plan directly into your 3D home. DESIGN YOUR HOME Place furniture, lights, climate devices and other objects. Move, rotate and resize them, and connect supported objects to your real smart-home devices. Outdoor areas can also become part of your Mikonus world. START FOR FREE Mikonus Free supports: • Unlimited rooms • Up to 15 interior objects • Up to 3 smart-home objects • 1 smart-home provider Within these limits, you can control your devices without restrictions and publish your home to supported dashboards. Mikonus Premium removes the quantity limits for your entire smart home. A SMART HOME SHOULD FEEL LIKE A HOME Technically, smart homes consist of devices, entities, sensors and automations. People think differently. We think about the lamp next to the sofa, the temperature in the bedroom or the front door. That is where Mikonus starts. Mikonus — your home in your hand. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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PC Controller

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PC Controller turns your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch into a remote control for your Windows PC or Mac. Move the mouse, type, change the volume, switch monitors, move files and put the computer to sleep, all over your own Wi-Fi, with no cloud, no account and nothing to sign up for. Install the free agent on your computer, scan the QR code it shows, and you're paired. The app also lists the computers it finds on your network, so there's nothing to type. TRACKPAD AND KEYBOARD • A full-screen trackpad: move, tap, two-finger right-click, scroll, drag and pinch to zoom • Type with the iPhone keyboard, emoji and dictation included • An extended keypad with the keys a phone doesn't have: arrows, Esc, Tab, Home, End, Delete, Ctrl, Alt and Win • Build your own shortcuts and fire any key combination with one tap • On Windows it all works on the login screen too, before anyone has signed in POWER • Lock, sleep, wake, shut down, restart or log off • Wake a sleeping PC over Wake-on-LAN, and let the app set up the PC so it wakes from a full shutdown too • Schedule it: "Sleep in 30 minutes" keeps counting down on the computer after you've left, with a live countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Set your home once and the phone can wake the PC as you arrive and lock it as you leave, decided entirely on the device SOUND AND MEDIA • Master volume and mute, plus a mixer with its own slider for every app and every output device • Switch the default speaker, and mute the microphone for every app at once • See what's playing, with album art, a scrubber and transport controls that drive Spotify, browsers and any other player SCREENS • Turn each monitor on or off, choose the primary, and set brightness, resolution and refresh rate • Save a display arrangement and bring it back with one tap • Grab a screenshot of any display and save it to Photos or share it FILES AND CLIPBOARD • Browse the computer's folders and drives, download files with live progress, then preview, share or save them • Send photos, videos and files to the computer, from the app or straight from the share sheet in any other app • Push the phone's clipboard to the PC or pull the PC's to the phone, text or image • Send a link and it opens in the computer's browser AND MORE • Bluetooth: see what's paired and connected, then connect, disconnect, scan and pair • Vitals: CPU, memory, disk, battery, uptime and the processes using the most memory, with a swipe to end one • Apps: see what's open on the computer, bring one forward, minimize or close it • Siri: "Hey Siri, lock my PC", plus Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center buttons for Lock, Wake, Mute and Mute Mic • Apple Watch: trackpad, media, power, monitors, mixer, shortcuts and clipboard on your wrist, and it finds the PC on its own when the phone isn't around • iPad: a dashboard that puts the whole machine on one screen • Available in 15 languages PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no server. The phone and watch talk directly to the agent on your computer over your Wi-Fi, VPN or Bluetooth, and the pairing token lives in your Keychain. PC Controller collects nothing: no analytics, no telemetry, no account. WHAT YOU NEED The free PC Controller agent, for Windows 11 or macOS 13 and later, from https://pccontroller.rymanit.com. The phone and the computer must be on the same network, or connected through a VPN or Bluetooth. PRICING Every feature is free for 7 days, with no card up front. After that, choose PC Controller Pro — Monthly (USD 0.99 per month), PC Controller Pro — Yearly (USD 8.99 per year) or PC Controller Pro — Lifetime, a one-time purchase (USD 19.99). Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Privacy policy: https://pccontroller.rymanit.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mikonus for Home Assistant4 screens
PC Controller4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PC Controller at 16.0 against Mikonus for Home Assistant's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Mikonus for Home Assistant sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year and PC Controller sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mikonus for Home Assistant ships an update every 4 days, PC Controller weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Mikonus for Home Assistant versus PC Controller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMikonus for Home AssistantPC Controller
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarsten SchmuckermeierMalkane

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mikonus for Home Assistant

Subscriptions1
  • Mikonus Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mikonus Lifetime$69.99
3 purchases

PC Controller

Subscriptions2
  • PC Controller Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
  • PC Controller Pro — Yearly$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • PC Controller Pro — Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Mikonus for Home Assistant free?
Mikonus for Home Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PC Controller free?
PC Controller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mikonus for Home Assistant or PC Controller have ads?
Neither Mikonus for Home Assistant nor PC Controller shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mikonus for Home Assistant or PC Controller?
Mikonus for Home Assistant ships an update every 4 days, and PC Controller weekly. Most recently, Mikonus for Home Assistant was updated on October 7, 2026 and PC Controller on October 11, 2026.

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