Wallflower for HomeKit

Wallflower for HomeKit

By nxtbgthng GmbH

  • Category: Utilities
  • Release Date: 2019-05-22
  • Current Version: 2.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 13.77 MB
  • Developer: nxtbgthng GmbH
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Score: 3.23529
3.23529
From 17 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

Wallflower turns an iPad or iPhone into an interactive control panel on the wall, for everyone to use. * Wallflower is optimized for running 24/7 on your wall. * Based on HomeKit: It supports lights, thermostats and ACs, switches, outlets, contact sensors (doors, windows), and sensors for temperature, humidity, air quality, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon dioxide, light intensity, air pressure and noise. And much more! * The interface is optimized to be looked at from far away. When it is not in use for a while, some elements are hidden and the interface is simplified. Those elements show up again, when you approach the device. When it's dark in the room, Wallflower can turn the display way down. * All sensor data is drawn into the same graph: Values from multiple sensors are merged intelligently. * If you want to provide your guest with Home Wifi, provide a convenient button where they can join via QR code. * Weather is displayed in a compact text form, including weather alerts if there are any. Detailed weather information, including charts, are just a tap away. * Along with it, you can select calendars to display, so for example your family calendar is always in view for everyone, in the place where everyone looks. This way there is a quick glanceable way to see what's up, even while walking by. * All issues for your smart home (like empty batteries, network problems, …) are conveniently displayed on the top. * There is no tracking in the app. And no extra analytics beyond the anonymized basics that the AppStore provides for the users that opted in. There's no invasive 3rd party frameworks either. We don’t want your data, your home is yours, and yours alone. * Settings are protected against unauthorized tinkering via a passcode or - if your device supports it - with your face or fingerprint. And after a while of not using it, it turns back to the main screen. * Last, but not least: Wallflower makes a great and very accurate wall clock. Wallflower requires a subscription to display weather, calendar or run with complex setups. However, you can try the home features without a subscription for one device of each kind (and 2 lights) at the same time. So you can try everything out as long as you want, and if you have a simple setup that might even be all you need! And if you're not a fan of subscriptions, there is a one-time option to pay for the home features.

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Reviews

  • Homekit accessory cannot be reached

    5
    By Sarah J. Connor
    Says Homekit accessory cannot be reached on my iPad mini iOS 9, but it does list all my devices. Please help! Update: Developer response was helpful. Thank you!

  • Slow, clumsy, over-priced

    1
    By cloudkucooland
    Yes, my old iPad is slow, but there is no reason an app like this should stop drawing the clock and become totally unresponsive for minutes at a time. It crashes frequently. At free it is worth uninstalling. I feel sorry for anyone who paid for it.

  • Updates?

    2
    By oRoBoTo
    It’s been well over a year since you updated. Your monthly subscription and or 65 dollar purchase does not hold value. At best it’s a $10 one time payment app. Please either update or change your price structure.

  • Good concept, needs regular updates and a tweak

    4
    By stray legs
    I searched for just such an app which I would gladly pay $10, a subscription not so much. A clock yep for a nightstand and preferably a clock that gives way when touched to larger buttons to control scenes or other HomeKit features instead of tiny icons or letters that are a bit hard to locate half asleep or at an angle. Good concept, maybe somebody will complete it.

  • Needs an update - where is 2.0?

    3
    By TheRealDappen
    This app is very minimal and sleek and offers a simple way to control a single room. I purchased with the hope that 2.0 would be released with features to control a whole home (or at least multiple rooms) and it is nowhere to be found. Last update was over a year ago. Their website points to a Medium article from 2019. I think this app may be dead in the development cycle. For what it currently is - a large clock with toggles for the HomeKit devices placed in the room you designate - it works. For a wall mounted solution - it’s so so.

  • Great concept but execution isn’t quite right

    3
    By gball and club
    I love the concept for this app, but theres a few issues I have. 1) the visual design isn’t very “apple” and doesn’t gel with my mostly modern house aesthetic 2) the clock takes up so much space 3) dev could draw some inspiration from other apps like Fuse and Homedash here

  • Great app

    5
    By jimbosoaurus
    I use this on an old iPad in my office as a ‘mission control’ for the house. The UI is beautiful and it gives me a good high level view of my HomeKit system. My fav feature is the QR code for the WiFi. I send all my guests over to the tablet if they want to use the WiFi instead of spelling out my complex password. Great app, I hope you guys keep supporting really old iPads and keep putting out updates!

  • Holds a lot of promise

    4
    By Commander Cody
    I luv the interface and the big clock. I would like to use this on my nightstand to be able to quickly control my homekit devices; however it currently does not support my Lutron fan’s, although they appear in the app. Also, the homepods do not appear so I am unable to control their statuses as well. These would be my prerequisites for a subscription, so let me know if these are doable.

  • Interesting start

    3
    By Siobhan Ellis
    A good start. I wanted it for my living room but it doesn’t support TV’s yet. Shame I had 2 waste a 2 week trial just to find that out😞 Still has promise and I’ll look again when it supports TV’s

  • Good app with some big misses

    3
    By Ansuz07
    The Good: This app is aesthetically very pleasing. Most of the HomeKit “skin” apps focus on cramming as much functionality as they can onto the main page at the cost of how good the app looks. These developers realize that an always-on wall controller needs to look good in your home; they put only relevant information on the screen and do it in such a way that you don’t mind having the app as a part of your decor. I also really like that you can customize what is available on the screens, allowing you to sort by “floor” rather than just rooms. For people with more open-concept homes, where there is little delineation between rooms, it is great to be able to control multiple rooms from a single screen. In my case, having the living, dining and kitchen all in one place makes the app much more usable than the standard HomeKit interface. The Bad: To get this out of the way - yes, the app charges a subscription for use. While I certainly would have preferred that this be a one time purchase, I get why they need to have a recurring revenue model to make updates. That said, the update cadence is not commensurate with the subscription model. Two minor functionality updates in five months is not what I expect when I pay a subscription; I expect the app to have new things added on at least a monthly basis - new functionality, new skins, new icons, etc. I’m happy to pay $4/mo for the app, but it just doesn’t feel like I’m getting $4/mo worth of value . There are also some major functionality gaps right now. I can’t control my alarm system from the app at all, nor can I see any of the video feeds from my HomeKit cameras. While I like the clock and time graph features, I feel that an app like this should allow me to quickly reference other relevant HomeKit information - like my camera feeds. All in all, I think this app has great potential, but it is still a few upgrades away from really feeling like a $50 app, much less an app that warrants the (relatively) high subscription costs. A much faster update cadence, along with a focus on other key functions of a robust HomeKit enabled home, would push this review up.

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