# Diya — Simple home control

> Simple home control (iPhone/iPad app by Gopal Agarwal.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/diya/id6800841109 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Gopal Agarwal](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800841111)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-10-07

## What is Diya?

Diya is a warm, beautifully simple way to control your smart home.

Instead of hunting through menus, Diya lays your home out the way you think about it — room by room. Tap to turn on the lights, start a fan, cool a room, open the curtains, or play music. One tap runs a whole scene.

Diya connects to your own Home Assistant, so your home stays yours — your data never leaves your devices and your own server.

  WHAT YOU CAN DO
  • Control lights, fans, AC, geysers, curtains and media — room by room
  • One-tap scenes: Good Morning, Movie, Goodnight, All Off
  • Per-room and whole-home "All off"
  • Pin your favourite devices to the home screen
  • Live camera view for your Home Assistant cameras
  • Fast, tactile controls with instant feedback
  • Light & dark themes

  PRIVATE BY DESIGN
  • No accounts, no tracking, no ads
  • Your connection details stay in your device's secure storage
  • Commands go straight from your device to your own Home Assistant

  TRY IT FIRST
  Not set up yet? Tap "Explore a demo home" to try Diya with a sample home — no setup needed.

  REQUIRES
 A running Home Assistant instance and a long-lived access token. Diya is a control app for your existing Home Assistant setup; it is not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation.

## Is Diya safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Diya.

## Is Diya legit?

Diya has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Diya is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-21

• On this day — a photo from your own albums, right on your Home.

• Notice board and Coming up — what the family has pinned, and how close the next trip is.

• A health summary on the Homes that want one — how many medicines and notes are on file. Informational only, and your records stay on your own home server.

• Everything from before is where you left it: who's home, the weather, your room, the shopping list and Share my location.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-20

• Your Home is now yours — each person opens on what they actually need. Mummy lands on her own room's controls in large type; Aarohi on Share my location; everyone else on who's home and the house.

• Shopping list — whatever is on the kitchen list, on your Home.

• Tidier rooms — your own room and the one you use most are a tap away, without hunting through the Rooms tab.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-17

• Share my location — a new Safety card on your Home. It tells the family where you are and lets you call them straight away, with a five-second countdown so a stray tap costs nothing.

• Works even when home doesn't — the call and the message go straight from your phone, so it still works on mobile data, away from home, or when your hub is offline.

• It does not contact emergency services. For that, call them directly.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-17

• Your own Home — Diya now opens on a personal Home tab: who is home right now, the weather outside, and the controls you have pinned.

• Rooms, unchanged — every light, fan, AC and camera now sits under a Rooms tab, right where you left it.

• Try before you connect — explore a sample home first, with no setup and no account.

• Clearer when home is out of reach — if your hub is restarting or you are away from your network, Diya now says so and offers to retry, instead of asking you to sign in again.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-07

Entrance cameras now load reliably — the live view waits for each frame to finish before fetching the next, so slower cameras no longer time out.

Diya also connects directly over your home Wi-Fi when you're at home, which makes everything noticeably faster.

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