Home Assistant Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience54.1% of reviews
Neutral8.9% of reviews
Negative experience37.0% of reviews

~ Based on 516 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Home Assistant Safe?

Home Assistant appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Home Assistant is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 4,037 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 4,037 App Store ratings for Home Assistant.

Is Home Assistant Legit?

Home Assistant appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Home Assistant is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Glitchy Mess

I constantly have to reload this app because it’s made with some bloated cross platform web tech instead of building a first in class swift app. The companion settings are buried and super config heavy with nothing pre-built for you to use. Setting up Apple Watch car play or OS widgets is such a pain. Dashboard editing is just completely broken half the time while the app hangs waiting for the server to respond (an issue that doesn’t occur on desktop web browsers). Overall the UX looks like it was designed by developers for developers and would really benefit from some professional UI/UX input. On the plus side the automations have been getting much better and easier to use so slow improvements are happening.
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Super

Nouveau dans ce milieu j’ai fait directement le grand saut, et passer les étapes les plus importantes assez facilement assisté par lA, car la communauté est au top,
Bravo

Response from developer

Thank you!

Отличное приложение

Спасибо разработчикам и всем кто принимает участие в улучшениях. Приложение с каждым годом становится всё лучше.

Response from developer

Thank you!

Just bad

Homeassiatant’s web UI is dated at best and is horribly clunky. I’m a huge homelabbing and Linux nerd and honestly I would prefer a config file to how bad this UX is. Things aren’t grouped logically, sometimes assets don’t show in search. Unfortunately this seems to be a project that succumbed to scope creep without any thought given to how it would work for most people. Imagine my shock and horror when the iOS app is basically just a WebKit wrapper for the web UI. Location and widgets are incredible unreliable. I have up and moved to something else. What homeassistant promises is great, what it delivers is the most frustrating piece of software that’s ever been on my servers.
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Response from developer

Thanks for letting us know about your experience! I can’t provide support in here, but I’d be happy to help if you reach out through our official channels like Discord or GitHub.

Home Assistant is amazing!

Love your work! So good. Been using for over a year. Subscribe to Casa Nabu as well. Your ecosystem is great and the community are top notch. App it very good.

Just one minor issue. I thought I’d write a review to bring your attention to the recent delays around the iOS app. Seems to be slow to load, reloads frequently. Clear cache notifications. Something recently in the last month or so must have changed. Hope you can look into it and fix the issue.
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Response from developer

Thanks for letting us know about the issue! I can’t provide support in here, but I’d be happy to help if you reach out through our official channels like Discord or GitHub.

Entfessle dein Smart Home

Home Assistant ist die ultimative Möglichkeit, fast jedes smarte Gerät in einer einzigen App zu steuern. Vorab: Man braucht eine eigene Hardware (Mini PC oder ähnliches) um Home Assistant zu betreiben! Aber dann: Vorbei die Tage, als man jeden Tag alle möglichen Apps auf dem Handy suchen musste, sich in deren Menü umständlich die Funktion aufrufen musste um dann irgendetwas zu steuern oder zu automatisieren. Home Assistant ist das Schweizer Taschenmesser unter den Apps. Ich steuere damit Lampen, das Garagentor, den Pellet Ofen, die Markise,… alles von unterschiedlichen Herstellern! Und das beste zum Schluß: Ich kann das alles, obwohl eigentlich nur zum Teil offiziell kompatibel, mit Apple Home verbinden und schlussendlich per Siri von der Apple Watch aus sprachsteuern. Besser geht’s nicht!
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Response from developer

Thank you!

Requires Location tracking

Requires high accuracy location tracking to use internal URL. That’s invasive. I don’t use any of the location features.

Home Brilliance!

Just keeps getting better!!!

Response from developer

Thank you!

Problème plein écran

Bonjour depuis la dernière mise à jour le plein écran de HA n’est plus du tout un plein écran et une barre apparaît maintenant en haut de mes devices (iPad pro et mini) j’espère que la prochaine mise à jour va corriger cela car ça ne fait plus propre du tout merci

Response from developer

Thanks for letting us know about the issue! I can’t provide support in here, but I’d be happy to help if you reach out through our official channels like Discord or GitHub.

Simply the best

Incredibly powerful and free. Takes some work to get going but rewards the investment

Home Assistant is amazing but the macOS app isn’t

For some reason, the macOS app performs worse than the same UI open in any of my web browsers. Constantly reloads or navigates home on its own. Frigate cameras don’t work.

Sehr gute App

Ich mag die App und nutze sie für die Steuerung meines Home Assistant.

Leider hat sie seit kurzem den Fehler, daß sie den freien Speicher meines iPad (Air M2) nicht mehr erkennt. Sie zeigt nur noch 0,00% an, was definitiv nicht stimmt.

Response from developer

Thanks for letting us know about the issue! I can’t provide support in here, but I’d be happy to help if you reach out through our official channels like Discord or GitHub.

Rubbish application

Terrible app. Takes an excruciatingly long time to load up the app. Unable to view cameras outside of the house which defeats the purpose of this app. Notifications arrive late.

Loved this but please fix

Suddenly using tons of battery in background even if I didn’t open and explicitly exit the app. I love the HA community but Please fix this

A new life and freedom!

I had no idea this thing existed, completely changed my life and privacy, I have automations that I thought I could not never do with Alexa! Amazing, thanks for the hard work.

Needs fix

Worked great but since recent update, I now don’t see my dashboard I created when opening the app. It gives me some overview that I didn’t ask for. That’s why I created my own dash. Under my settings, my default is set to my dash but the app now ignores it. Seems to work on my android tablet.

Pure Love

Best App in the App Store

The last smart home app you’ll ever need

Been using this for a few years now and the iOS app performs so much better than expected. Seriously, good job devs. Handles thousands of entites on my dashboard and there’s been an explosion of new features over the time I’ve used it.

Really surprised how well it integrates with the native features of both iOS and Android. Keep up the good work.
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Do not download

Does not connect, steals data

It’s killing my battery

I am not sure if it’s iOS 27 but I get warnings everyday that it has been running for hours in the background :( ( I had to delete it just to have my phone last thru the day )