So powerful and easy to use
The app and home hub are amazing. The hub itself is easy to setup with the app. The app makes it even easier to setup your home devices to easily talk to each other. Five stars
Best Hub!
I have used this for years and it works flawlessly.
Highly Recommend
Best way to incorporate Google Home with HomeKit. EXTREMELY EASY
Buy this!
Links everything Google/Nest with Apple Home flawlessly and easily. The best little box in the business. 100% reliable and constantly updated. Keeps getting better and better.
Can’t recommend unfortunately
We’ve had this product and for a while. It worked great for a while. Now we have an error message us telling us to contact Starling support. Which we have done. With no response. While I understand there can be issues I’m less forgiving of a company doesn’t contact you back. Bummer, I’d suggest another solution other than Starting.
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OPEN SURVEILLANCE MARKETS FOR NEST CUSTOMERS!
I am super excited I’ll soon get out of my google home premium subscription. I hate devices with apps that don’t deliver what the device promises. I get to “unlock” google’s fancy cam and pair it as I please!
Stopped working
Stopped working
A godsend
Why society permits the major providers of smart home technology to lock each other out is a mystery. Especially, when you consider that someone sets up their home with a broadly compatible platform like Nest that ends up being swallowed by one of the giants whose ecosystem is then forced upon them. Starling fixes this for apple home users. It’s rock solid doing its thing in the background 24/7 without fail at a nominal cost. Which is amazing. But also telling: those greedy behemoths could easily fix things if only they were half willing.
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Easy to use
Quick and easy access, review, make changes e.g. firmware updates, restart hub, etc. on your iPhone to the Starling hub.
Sad to see, the announcement that Starling will no longer sell their product to cost conditioned caused by Tariffs. Hopefully, Starling is rebranded since the hubs works with many other devices other than Google Nest. I'd pay a premium for the device, much like Hoobs and/or a reasonable annual fee.
Sad to see, the announcement that Starling will no longer sell their product to cost conditioned caused by Tariffs. Hopefully, Starling is rebranded since the hubs works with many other devices other than Google Nest. I'd pay a premium for the device, much like Hoobs and/or a reasonable annual fee.
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No dark mode icon, no updates
No dark mode icon, no updates
Best Purchase I’ve Made for My Home
Starling Home Hub has been a fantastic product that I’ve now used for over a year and never had an issue with. Even when I added a second Home to Nest for my parents, I was able to get it all working with a second Starling Hub at the parents house and properly segregate everything so they only have access in HomeKit to their home Nest cameras.
Hats off to the team for really putting a great product together and an app that allows for the proper customization for different scenarios.
EDIT (Aug 2025): Recently my 2022 Starling Home Hub experienced a hub hardware failure and after reaching out to support I received a replacement that fixed the issue for free. This really has been the best purchase for my home as my wife has found having a Nest Doorbell attached to our HomeKit so helpful as she can check hear the chimes and check the camera through all our HomePods and Apple devices (TV, iPads, iPhone). Kudos to the team and the company for doing right on both product and support!
Hats off to the team for really putting a great product together and an app that allows for the proper customization for different scenarios.
EDIT (Aug 2025): Recently my 2022 Starling Home Hub experienced a hub hardware failure and after reaching out to support I received a replacement that fixed the issue for free. This really has been the best purchase for my home as my wife has found having a Nest Doorbell attached to our HomeKit so helpful as she can check hear the chimes and check the camera through all our HomePods and Apple devices (TV, iPads, iPhone). Kudos to the team and the company for doing right on both product and support!
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Just works.
Seamless and unobtrusive. Couldn’t ask for more from a bridge that links google home devices to Apple Home.
Set it and forget it
I’ve had it for a few months and it’s great. Almost forget I have it.
Didn’t think it could get better.
This device has been the product that just keeps on giving. Its latest update has essentially turned it into a plug and play HomeBridge with the added benefit of being insanely easy to use and straightforward.
Must have for making IOT devices play nice
It’s a crucial piece of kit if you like some features of Google home stuff but mostly live in the Apple Ecosystem.
Simple to set up hub; Complicated in HomeKit
Feb 2025 update:
Update has caused everything to be deleted despite a modal displayed after update was complete explaining that everything would remain connected.
2022:
Setting up the Starling hub was super simple and very easy and fast. Setting up my nest, protect smoke detectors was also super simple, fast and easy in the nest app. Getting my Nest devices to show up in a controllable way inside the HomeKit app failed three times in a row (they showed up in HomeKit, but were displayed as “not responding”) … but I finally got it to work after 2 necessary factory resets, and the two more because I wanted to change the way they appeared in HomeKit.
Update has caused everything to be deleted despite a modal displayed after update was complete explaining that everything would remain connected.
2022:
Setting up the Starling hub was super simple and very easy and fast. Setting up my nest, protect smoke detectors was also super simple, fast and easy in the nest app. Getting my Nest devices to show up in a controllable way inside the HomeKit app failed three times in a row (they showed up in HomeKit, but were displayed as “not responding”) … but I finally got it to work after 2 necessary factory resets, and the two more because I wanted to change the way they appeared in HomeKit.
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Great integration between Google & Apple
I’ve been using the Starling Home Hub at my house for 5 years - I wanted to be able to control my Nest Thermostat within Apple Home. With the recent Firmware updates and the ability to control other Google Home only devices in Apple Home the Starling Home Hub has become even better than it was. I love it so much that I bought a unit for my parents place for Christmas to integrate their home into their Apple ecosystem.
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Great product
I didn’t realize how well this thing works because you forget about it.. if you ever wanna be reminded, just try some of these other integrations.. that will wipe the smile off your face quick!!
Excellent for Nest
I bought it to integrate my nest thermostat to my homekit. It made it easier than to buy a new thermostat compatible with homekit.
Best app and Device
This is so far the best Google Nest bridge for HomeKit. All my accessories work great on the Apple ecosystem. The Starling team works so hard to make this device the best on the market. I wish I could rate them with more than just 5 stars.
