PowerHouz

I’ve been watching this app and its complaints of in-app purchases. When they finally removed the IAP requirement to be fully functional, I purchased it. Overall, it’s a nicely designed app and I like the fact that you can personalize the rooms with your own images. One thing I was surprised about is the lack of TRIGGER conditions. You can only build a trigger on date/time and frequency. No Location-based triggers and No Sunset/Sunrise triggers. A competing app has those trigger conditions (at almost 3x the price) but I would have figured that those would be included. I’m still playing with the app and building my home, and will update review if i find any other positive or negative aspects of the app.

Developers note: this would've been a four star review if you would have just priced it at $9.95 with a free trial for one accessory. You're competing against apps that charge $15 so making people pay five dollars to find out they have to pay five more to unlock the real functionality is silly. And annoying. The Tutorial could be better, but The features and layout are very good, and better than most of the competition. Fix the pricing and I'll change the review.

I have no idea why Apple is allowing this app in the App Store. They make you pay money something to utilize the devices that are already added to your HomeKit configuration. That is flat out ridiculous. I can't even check the functionality of the app, because I refuse to pay for each device that I have already added in my home, and can access using any number of other apps.