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Best HomeKit App

DR2000

Great app that I’ve been using for some time. Version 4 is a huge upgrade. Looking forward for upcoming features of actually ungrouping devices.

New version

cmh716

So disappointed they moved to the same square icons instead of a list of devices. It’s such a complete waste of screen real estate. Who needs a 1cm x 1cm icon to display a temperature?

Dislike new UI

MKEFlyer

If I wanted to use the Apple Home app I would, version 4 copies the UI of Apple Home. Version 3 was easier to have a birds eye view of all accessories at once.

Apple should follow your lead

MotoTrvlr

The new version is stellar! Well done! This is everything Apple should have done.

I was SO EXCITED, but now SO DISAPPOINTED!

Rstrick41

No new layout. I updated from Home 3 because I was SO excited about the supposed new tile layout among other things. But was I disappointed. All of my devices on my phone are straight up and down like on my Apple watch. I have to scroll down through each one to find a device. There is no tab layout. I requested assistance and was told that it is a 'known issue' on smaller iPhones like the iPhone SE and 'might be fixed' by the next update. Well, I'm not on a smaller iPhone, I'm on an iPhone 8 with plenty of real estate to hold every other app. I don't think I have EVER paid $14.99 for an app that didn't even offer a trial and be told basically, wait and see. I keep checking and checking but no update. Very disappointed with the response, very disappointed with the app, and very disappointed with the wait. I would REALLY like to get what I paid for (right now), not when the developer is 'in the mood!'

Great App!

tjm052716

This is a fantastic app with a ton of features that are missing from Apple’s own Home app. One of my favorite features is the automations section and the extra features included. The developer is very responsive to requests and support. Keep up the good work!!

Good app, but quite glitchy

487659284738

I’ve been impressed with the app and its automation controls. It’s a good option for anyone who wants to go beyond what the stock Home app allows. The app also looks very clean. Unfortunately, however, the app in general feels quite glitchy. On the automation tab, icons in scenes with many accessories are squished.When customizing an automation, actions in the list rearrange themselves without prompting, and sometimes new items don’t appear until you go to another page and return. The process for setting up/editing scenes (especially lights) is particularly problematic. Settings for each accessory randomly disappear, don’t save, or change themselves. I also get error messages saying a setting already exists even when it doesn’t. The color/hue/saturation options are also confusing and seem possibly to cause some of the glitchiness described above. If I choose to use hue and saturation, it shouldn’t convert to color without asking. For me, being able to independently control hue and saturation was actually the key selling point of this app over others, yet in practice it forces you to use color... I would like to see color removed entirely, or at least an option to disable. All in all, the app has potential, but basic quality control issues like these shouldn’t occur in a $15 app.

Great Home Replacement. Needs favorites / at a glance screen.

Daveman918

The developer has done a really nice job here. The performance of the app is 10x better than the native home app which I have found useless since iOS 13. The ability to get to and configure additional characteristics of some of my devices, like my Leviton switches is a nice touch. I would really like two things for this to be epic. A favorites / at a glance screen and use of CloudKit to keep my edits and at a glance screen consistent across multiple devices. Overall really good so far.

Version 4.0.1 is a major regression

Devvvvvvvvvvvvv

Think very carefully before you pay $15 for functionality that is now available in other free apps. Coupled with the inability to downgrade an app to a prior version in iOS, this makes for a very risky purchase that may result in your paying for an app that could be broken or have core functionality removed at the developer's whim a couple years later. This app was always buggy with attribute changes seeming to be accepted but then being reset frequently. One time, it actually ended up deleting my entire homekit configuration when I thought I was removing an accessory. I see this also happened to other users. But now in version 4, the developer has removed and altered core functionality that was really the only thing making the app useful for me. Adding accessories to a scene by group is no longer available, and adding accessories to a scene can only be added by adding each accessory attribute individually. Adding lights to a scene by group was actually quite useful for adding multiple lights with the same attribute settings, but for some reason, this has been removed. Inexplicably, the UI design was also changed in version 4, and it didn't result in making things more clear—icons were added and controls changed so now every edit will bring you out of the accessory control view back into the accessories list. Actions that used to be clear and straightforward are now incredibly tedious. For example, if you want to add a light at 100% brightness, with a red hue at 50% saturation, you have to add the light power state, then it takes you to the power state save screen, tapping "save" then takes you to the scene device list. Then you have to go back to repeat and add each accessory attribute for every single light attribute you need to be affected by that scene. For example, adding the brightness—it takes you to the brightness save view, then tapping "save" takes you to the scene device list, then you have to add the saturation, and so on... You cannot add all the light's attributes in one step (by checkboxes like in version 3). So what used to take 3 or 4 taps to achieve now will take, for 8 lights, over 90 taps. The update to version 4 removed most of the useful functionality for this app, and the developer has not responded to my request for a refund and does not even seem to care to acknowledge that their update has introduced massive UI/UX issues. But they already have my money, so I guess they're ok with it...

Does this app not support Arlo Ultra cameras?

JustBlessed106

I used to love this app and It used to be my go to app for HomeKit. However the biggest flaw with Apples Home app as now come to this one. In MY opinion the ‘tile’ layout is horrible. The main reason I used Home 3 was ease of seeing everything from basically 1 screen. The absolute worst is the tile layout for Today Widget. I wish I knew how to develop apps because in MY opinion the way Home 3’s widget was would be absolutely genius for an app. Basically seeing every device in a single non scrolling scene.

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