# Smart Home Playground — Explore Your Home Network

> Network scanner and visualizer for smart home devices, prioritizing privacy. (iPhone/iPad app by ARSHAM HATAMBEIKI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-home-playground/id6776854910 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ARSHAM HATAMBEIKI](https://appshunter.io/developer/6776854912)
- Category: Utilities, Developer Tools
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 4 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Brazilian Portuguese and 3 more
- Released: 2026-06-11
- Data updated: 2026-09-13
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-home-playground/id6776854910/reviews.md

## What is Smart Home Playground?

Smart Home Playground: Discover Your Network

Have you ever wondered exactly what is connected to your home Wi-Fi? From smart plugs and thermostats to phones and media players, modern home networks are incredibly complex.
Smart Home Playground is your ultimate, privacy-first toolbox for discovering, analyzing, and visualizing every device sharing your space. Built natively for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, it bridges the gap between advanced network analysis and an intuitive user experience.
Whether you are a seasoned IT professional troubleshooting a connection or a curious homeowner wanting to see how your smart home communicates, this app makes the invisible network visible.

Key Features

- Deep Network Scanning: Instantly scan your local network to discover connected smart home gadgets, media players, wearables, and personal devices.
- Smart Home Inspector Report: Generate insightful reports covering everything from media features to Matter fabric analysis.
- Intelligent Device Identification: Smart Home Playground leverages powerful, on-device AI to recognize and name the hardware connected to your Wi-Fi, turning a confusing list of IP addresses into recognizable devices.
- Service & Protocol Interrogation: Go beyond the surface. The app interrogates and tags the specific services your devices expose, with native understanding of the latest smart home evolutions, including Matter, Thread, AirPlay, Cast, mDNS, and Bonjour.
- Interactive Visual Canvas: Featuring a clean, tag-based list view, and we are also building a next-generation visual network diagram. You will be able to map out your devices on an interactive canvas, seeing exactly how they connect via physical fabrics (like Wi-Fi or Thread) and logical fabrics (like Matter or Cast).
- Universal Apple Native App: Beautifully crafted in native Swift, delivering a fast, fluid, and cohesive experience whether you are scanning from your iPhone on the couch or analyzing data on your Mac.

100% Private. Zero Data Harvesting.

Your home network is your private domain, and it should stay that way.
- Unlike many other network scanners, Smart Home Playground processes everything locally.
- All AI identification and scanning happen entirely on-device.
- There are no hidden analytics, no required accounts, and absolutely no ulterior motive to capture, store, or sell your data.

Take control of your smart home ecosystem today with a tool built for the curious, by the curious.

## Key features

- Deep network scanning
- Intelligent device identification
- Service and protocol interrogation
- Interactive visual network diagram
- Universal Apple native app
- 100% private, zero data harvesting


## Frequently asked questions about Smart Home Playground

### What devices can Smart Home Playground discover?

Smart Home Playground can discover a wide range of devices connected to your Wi-Fi, including smart plugs, thermostats, phones, media players, wearables, and other personal devices. It leverages on-device AI to identify these gadgets.

### Does Smart Home Playground collect my data?

No, Smart Home Playground is 100% private and does not harvest any data. All scanning and AI identification happen entirely on-device, with no hidden analytics, required accounts, or data selling.

### What smart home protocols does Smart Home Playground support?

The app interrogates and tags specific services your devices expose, with native understanding of Matter, Thread, AirPlay, Cast, mDNS, and Bonjour. This allows for detailed analysis of smart home communications.

### How does Smart Home Playground visualize my network?

It offers a clean, tag-based list view and is developing a next-generation visual network diagram. This interactive canvas will allow you to map device connections via physical and logical fabrics like Wi-Fi, Thread, Matter, and Cast.

### Is Smart Home Playground available on Android?

Smart Home Playground is built natively for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, delivering a fast and cohesive experience across these Apple devices. It is not currently available on Android.

### How often is Smart Home Playground updated?

The app was last updated on June 11, 2026, with version 1.0. As a native Apple app, updates are delivered through the App Store, ensuring users receive the latest features and improvements.

### What is the age rating for Smart Home Playground?

Smart Home Playground has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a broad audience interested in understanding their home network. This rating indicates it contains no mature content.

### Does Smart Home Playground have ads?

No, Smart Home Playground is completely free and does not contain any advertisements. Users can explore their network without interruptions.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.8 — 2026-09-09

Now read your Home Inspector Report in 12 languages! Insightful reports and in-app hints covering everything from media features to Matter fabric analysis.

### 1.7 — 2026-08-04

Smart Home Inspector Report: Generate insightful reports covering everything from media features to Matter fabric analysis. Now also merging in your Apple Home devices that may not be on your WiFi network!

### 1.0 — 2026-06-11

No release notes.

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