Maestro Snap began with a very human problem: the light switch was all the way over there, and I was all the way over here.
So I taught my Apple Watch to do the walking. Point your arm at a lamp, like you're showing it to a friend, and snap your fingers. The lamp obeys. No phone, no hub gymnastics, no shouting at a speaker that answers from the wrong room. Just you, casually rearranging the physical world with your fingers.
Point. Snap. Magic.
HOW THE MAGIC WORKS
Your watch already knows which way your arm is pointing. Maestro learns where your things are: you "paint" a device by pointing at it for a few seconds while wandering a little, and your wrist taps along while it learns. From then on, a snap is a toggle.
It keeps learning. Correct it once when it guesses wrong and that mistake gets rarer. Rooms change on their own as you walk around, so the lamp you meant is the lamp you get.
Snapping awkward with your watch hand? Switch the trigger to Tap instead. Same magic, quieter.
WHAT IT CONTROLS
• Apple Home, out of the box, with no account and no sign-in
• Home Assistant for the fully automated household
• Lights, switches, plugs, fans, blinds, TVs and scenes
• Accessories you grouped in the Home app answer as one, the way Home already shows them
• Four hundred entities in Home Assistant? Put a "maestro" label on the handful you actually want and Maestro shows only those
• Webhooks, so anything with a URL can answer a snap (Unlimited)
THE PARTS I'M QUIETLY PROUD OF
• Start a paint from your iPhone: tap a device there, then point at it on your wrist
• Two floors? The watch learns your home's elevations, so the upstairs lamp stops stealing snaps from the one below it
• It stays out of the way when you are not home
• Runs entirely on your wrist, screen on or off
• Never counts as a workout. Your rings are safe.
• No account, no cloud, no data collection. Your home stays yours.
• Needs a watch with a compass: Apple Watch Series 5 or later, any SE, any Ultra
FREE VS UNLIMITED
Free is the complete experience for one device in one room, which is a perfectly good way to feel like a wizard about one specific lamp. Nothing is crippled, it is just smaller. Maestro Unlimited is a one-time purchase that lifts the caps, adds webhooks, and lets you dress the thing up: five color schemes, eight snap effects and eight app icons, because if you are going to cast a spell it may as well look like one.
Not long ago this kind of thing needed a movie set, a robe, and a special-effects budget. Now it takes a watch and one working finger snap. The future is deeply silly, and I am here for it.
This is a very cool app, coded in a very cool way. There are some fundamentals you must learn to make proper use of it, but it’s worth it once you do. The developer is very responsive and helpful.
Really want to like it but…
choppedzombie
No matter what I do I keep getting a device no longer exists. Simply doesn’t work. Will try again later if dev patches!
Developer Response
Hi! That definitely shouldn’t happen. Could you go to the support section in the app and send me a report?Thanks,David
One fix, and it matters if you have painted a lot of devices.
- Homes with about twenty or more painted devices could crash the
watch app on almost any action. The learned model had outgrown the
space watchOS allows an app's settings, and the system stopped the
app rather than let the write finish. The model now lives in
regular files with no such limit, and your existing paint moves
over on first launch. Thanks to Nick for the crash logs that
pinned it.
- If the app ever does go down, the next launch notes what it was
doing, and that note rides along in a support export.
Version 1.4.4
The developer, David Ruiz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
David Ruiz
Size
13.3 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.