Home+ 6

This app makes managing HomeKit accessories and automations enjoyable and effortless. I’ve always found the built-in app cumbersome and frustrating, and therefore had never set up my home the way it should be. But after 10 minutes in Home+, I found myself happily organizing and renaming my sprinkler zones, remembering the horrible experience doing that in the built-in app. Now I’ve finally renamed and organized all of my accessories and automations they should be, and it was easy. Unfortunately though, Home+ doesn’t offer much more functionality than the built-in app. And like many other 3rd party apps, it doesn’t display HomeKit-enabled TVs, nor AppleTVs. These make the purchase price a bit difficult to justify for me. Ultimately the one feature that would make this more than worth the purchase price for me would be an additional “dashboard” view, with more flexibility in sizing and placement of accessories, groups, and scenes, all in one dedicated view alongside the existing views for Accessories, Groups, Scenes etc. My 1st-gen iPad Pro 12.9” serves as a wall-mounted, always-on control center for my home and music, and with Home+ there is no good way to show more than a handful of accessories and cameras on the screen at once for quick access. Just look at the app screenshots on the App Store listing to see all of the wasted space in the Accessories view. There are other apps that offer a customized dashboard view, but they fall far short of the elegance and simplicity of Home+. And at the end of day, this is the app I’d rather use.

I don’t post many reviews in the App Store. But I feel like this app deserves it! Don’t let the price scare you away. Apple should hire this team to redesign the native home (HomeKit) app on the iPhone. I’m very much into home automation and I also use Home Assistant for my automations. But after finding this app I changed some of those over to this app with great success. It does take some time to figure out how to properly set automations, but in the end it’s so worth it. What I like the best with this app is the ability to set conditions for automation triggers. For example if I want my lights to come on when my Motion Sensors detect Motion they will but I can also set them to only come on if my TV is set to “off” then after Motion is not detected it will turn the lights back off again. Now if the TV is “on” nothing happens if I choose. This is just a small example of what is possible with conditions in automations. I also run a humidifier in my home but when the humidity in the room is above 50 this app turns my humidifier off and stays off until the humidity level drops below 45. This is awesome and I absolutely love this app. Again don’t let the price scare you away. You will not be disappointed. The author is here to help you if you have any questions. Thanks for making this app! I will be looking for any future releases from you guys!

I have been using this app for a long time now and have seen it grow as apple allows the developers to have more options with the programming. I have spoken with Matthias on several occasions asking for various abilities that weren’t programmed in and if he was allowed he would come out with an update down the road incorporating my request. I have been looking for a way to turn on my lights a certain time before sunset since its dark in the house before sunset and after apple opened it up to developers Matthias put it in Home 3. This allows me to not have to worry about constantly changing the time the lights come on as the day lengthens or shortens. I also wanted the ability to activate devices only on certain days and that is now programmed in. Lastly I wanted the ability to move my scenes and automations around in the stacking order and that is also the case now. Everything I wanted in an automation program is now within Home 3. There are also other options that I don’t use now, but its great to know that if I want them in the future, they are there. This program is well worth the money I paid for it.