Home Assistant Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience54.1% of reviews
Neutral8.6% of reviews
Negative experience37.3% of reviews

~ Based on 510 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 3,967 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.5% 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 3,967 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

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!!!

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

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 )

Bâtiment 2.0

Cette application est toujours de en évolution dans le bon sens, et j’en apprends tous les jours. Difficile de trouver l’équivalent même dans les grands constructeurs actuels de logiciels de ce type …
Elle est vraiment top !

Response from developer

Thank you!

Slower than web interface and randomly crashes

Months later, new versions just keep getting worse. Bloated and unreliable excrement
Typical of the pathetic, half finished, badly designed, poorly thought out mess that Frenks Fan Club produces.
STILL no security or decent multi user capability.
The entire home assistant system can only be described as the best of a (very) bad lot.
Every update just brings a different set of bugs, usually without fixing anything meaningful.
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After updates

Can’t get my ssl url to work

Loving it

I’m enjoying using HA along with the IOS companion app.

HA forcing AI assistants on us

I love Home Assistant, but forcing “assistant” on us with no legit way to actually turn it off is insulting to the community. Have you looked around? There’s a massive amount of hate for forced-AI these days. Home Assistant is supposed to be about giving USERS control, but in this case the HA devs have said they know what’s best for all their users so here’s a forced AI assistant you can’t disable or remove. Infuriating.
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One to rule them all

Home Assistant is the smart home platform I've been hunting for 10+ years.

Apple Home? Check. Google Home? Check. Alexa, SmartThings? All tried them. None deliver what HA does: total control over your devices without compromising privacy.

The killer feature: Everything runs locally. Your data stays yours. No cloud dependency. No telemetry mining. This is what smart home should feel like.

Warning: HA is powerful, which means it's not plug-and-play easy. Invest the time to learn it but you won't regret it.

Massive respect to the developers keeping this open, local-first without compromising privacy. 🙌
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