mate. - Smart Home Dashboard

I feel like such an idiot. This app is completely useless…well, unless to want a weather display. None of the promised features are there. The is a SCAM!!!! It is absolutely criminal to advertise a product that does absolutely nothing. I’m feeling sick…

Straight up garbage. QR scanner didn’t recognize the QR codes on any of my smart bulb packages. No easy way to just look up your devices not clear indication of what products they support. It’s $5, so whatever.

This app promises to be a total home control that brings all your apps together. Which sounds amazing because it’s hard to find all the things that work with HomeKit, so I was thinking I was paying $5 for an app that I could control everything in. Wrong. It’s an app launcher. You point the buttons to which app you use for devices then it opens that app. Not at all what it makes it sound like in the description. Requesting a refund as soon as I can.

Thanks so much to the amazing team who created this app, it’s a real game changer.

I like this app

This app has some pretty cool promise, but that’s really all it has, promise. One of the primary major flaws is that you can’t customize the buttons in any meaningful way. What you see in the screenshots is what you get - icon for icon, capability for capability. And it doesn’t really even “control HomeKit” as promised. You click on lights and it simply takes you to the Home app to then find the light and do what you want to do. What was finally the last nail in the coffin was, after many times of “trying to love this app” I started to really dig in and control my TV with that big TV button and the only apps that apply to me is Apple TV or Apple TV remote. Well, I don’t want the TV application, I wanted the remote, which exists perfectly on my iPad, but this application goes to the App Store and says that the application is not found. This leads me to believe that this app really isn’t maintained. I give this two stars because it’s kind of a pretty app but its usefulness is almost nothing. Honestly there are already a ton of apps that allow you to not only customize the experience but also do the same hum-drum task of giving you shortcuts to your other apps - you know, kind of like a FOLDER does. Now, if this gets to a point where I can customize the screen and have SIGNIFICANTLY more control over what the icons do then I’m all in for trying it again.

This is a great concept considering that Apple’s Home app leaves something to be desired. However, there are a lot of improvements needed in order for this app to be good. You should have the ability to only see buttons for devices that actually exist in a room, as well as labels for each of the devices. Also to sort of set a favorites dashboard to view and control devices from multiple different rooms, as well as camera feeds.

Great idea as I have not found another app to tie together my various home automation platforms. Seems to be having some issues with the current iOS. Wish the UI could be customized more I.e. ability to move buttons around, remove buttons that aren’t used, have preview images of the linked apps instead of the generic buttons etc.

I’ve just started using this app. I already have quite a few HomeKit devices and this connected immediately and is better than the home app. I really love it.

All this app does is provide a central place where you click links that open other apps. If is NOT a controller for home kit devices. Don’t waste your time.