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CLUSTER HOME-MOBILE-AUTOMATION · 28 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-01-27

Smart home control apps

This cluster consists of mobile apps that discover, control, and monitor home automation systems and smart devices, including lights, cameras, and security features. The dated entry history before the index start spans from 2012 to early 2026 with a sparse, irregular pattern of one new entry per month across widely scattered months, making the timeline's shape too thin to read as a trend. Traction leaders are led by Home Assistant, though all three listed products show zero activity stars, indicating limited engagement signals. Two members have no source date.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2015: 1APR 2017: 1OCT 2017: 1MAR 2018: 1AUG 2018: 1JAN 2019: 1MAY 2020: 1SEP 2020: 1MAR 2021: 1OCT 2022: 1JUN 2024: 1MAY 2025: 1SEP 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 6
JAN 2015OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby · 6 commercial · 5 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01glimt3★1 day—hobbyLocal smart-home app that flashes lights and plays tones when AI coding agents finish, fail, or need attention, and returns lights to their previous state.
  2. 02appliances_autonotify1★2 days—open sourceSmart home integration that sends automatic notifications when household appliances start and finish cycles, with live progress on phones.
  3. 03homey-battery-watchdog1★8 days—hobbySmart home app that monitors battery-powered devices and sends alerts when they stop reporting, with optional push notifications.
  4. 04Home Assistant0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that connects to a local home automation system, letting users control devices, create automations, and receive alerts based on location or sensor events.
  5. 05HouseControl0★10 days—hobbyAndroid app that controls smart home devices and toggles their state from a phone.
  6. 06filament0★3 days—hand-codedhobbyUnofficial mobile app that controls Lepro smart bulbs through widgets, Siri Shortcuts, and a local web controller.
  7. 07Hermes-Go0★5 days—Companion mobile app that connects to a bot control mode and web interface for remote management.
  8. 08Hestia0★4 dayslivehobbyAndroid app that controls Shelly home-automation devices locally, including dimmers and shutters.
  9. 09iOS-app0★10 days—hand-codedhobbyiPhone app that controls home lights remotely and automatically turns them on when the user enters a set radius around the home.
  10. 10Ting0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that pairs with an electrical sensor to prevent home fires and alert homeowners to power outages.
  11. 11Xiaomi Home0★22 dayslivecommercialMobile app that manages smart home devices, adding, controlling, and sharing them with household members.
  12. 12Alfha-Soluci-nes-0★1 mo—Mobile app for residential condominiums that manages QR-code access control, OCR package scanning, and AI-assisted home automation over local network and Bluetooth.
  13. 13ha-instinct0★1 mo—hobbySmart-home automation app that predicts the user's intended action from a single wearable button press, learning from past decisions and house state.
  14. 14openHAB0★2 moliveopen sourceMobile app that connects to and controls a self-hosted home automation hub, unifying various smart home devices and protocols in one interface.
  15. 15Roku Smart Home0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that manages and controls smart home devices including security cameras, doorbells, smart bulbs, and plugs.
  16. 16ADS Aniware0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that lets customers of a security provider control their alarm systems, automation, and security cameras from their phone.
  17. 17Home Assistant0★11 daysliveopen sourceMobile companion app that controls and monitors devices connected to a home automation instance.
  18. 18Dragonfly Hub0★3 molivecommercialApp that manages a home network with parental controls, device management, security features, and priority settings.
  19. 19Pearlnode0★4 moliveopen sourceMobile app that controls Shelly smart home devices over local Wi-Fi without cloud or account, including power monitoring, schedules, and firmware updates.
  20. 20Home App | For Philips Hue, Arduino & more0★6 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceSmart home app that controls Philips Hue lights and other IoT devices, allowing creation and management of scenes.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.