The Home Remote User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience60.5% of reviews
Neutral11.1% of reviews
Negative experience28.4% of reviews

~ Based on 81 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is The Home Remote Safe?

The Home Remote appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Home Remote is 75/100.

This assessment is based on 99 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

67.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
24.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 98 App Store ratings for The Home Remote.

Is The Home Remote Legit?

The Home Remote appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Home Remote is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

IOS26 beta app will not run.

The requested app extension could not be found

Great WeMo Alternative

Now that WeMo is ending their cloud service, this is a perfect alternative for local control of WeMo devices. And it looks like the app was just updated a few months ago so hopefully the developer will continue to support the app.

Great App to consolidate various automations

This has been one of the best apps I have used to consolidate and control over various vendors for home automation.

Over the years it has slowly been loosing it ability though to work with some vendors.

Most recently the MyQ functionality no longer works. The app development team needs to fix the broken ones.
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End of life

This WAS an awesome app but the developer is no longer supporting it. Integrations have stopped working because he isn’t maintaining it anymore unfortunately.

Great for DIY; hoping for more

The app is awesome and has allowed me to do so much after iRule went the way of the dodo.

There is so much potential to take this to an 11/10. Unfortunately, feature requests are generally ignored and updates have come to a halt.

Hoping the writing isn't on the wall.

Not sure about this app

It seemed great at first and I even bought the business edition login.

That said the app appears to only sync a portion (176) of my SmartThings devices (across two hubs and 280 devices). A lot of devices are missing.

The business edition login doesn’t even seem to work even after paying for it.

I kinda just gave up on trying to use that particular feature.

However I am trying to use more but finding it limited since it can only partially sync devices. Hopefully I just missed something that needed to be done or a feature enabled.
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Works ok so far

I run my smart home on Hubitat and wanted a better Dashboard to run on a tablet and iphone. This App is functional on my iphone and has allowed integration of Hubitat, Honeywell, Sonos. Its fairly intuitive to set up the basics but some documentation would be helpful. For example, how do you remove a group? I bought the pro version but it looks no different to the free one. There are no instructions in the App on how to import a dashboard created in the desktop designer software. The biggest plus is that its easy to use so my wife will likely use it.
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Starts with a white screen.

This is a great app, but it starts with a white screen(and it goes to dark mode only after a few seconds), even when it is set to dark mode and it is really annoying when you are using it in a home theater. It happens on Android and IOS. It should be very simple to solve. This is the only thing missing to this app to get 5 star.
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Highly Customizable

I was a user of the now discontinued VeraMate application, and I was looking for a user interface that could give me the data I needed at a glance. I constructed a VeraMate replacement user interface with all of the data and control functions I needed in under two days.

There is one thing it seems I cannot do, dynamic tile reordering. When a device is "inactive," it will leave a blank space in the device browser. When the device is "active," it will then fill in that space.

A few notes on customizing:
The app will run without Designer using default groups.
Highly customizable with Designer.
A Windows machine is required to run Designer.
Designer has a mild learning curve.
Some programming knowledge is helpful.

I really like this program, and it definitely fulfilled my needs. If you dig in and learn the Designer operating principles, I think you'll be very happy with the end result.
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Excellent app and support

Control all of the devices listed from one, simple to use, app. Download the desktop app and you can modify or build your own design. Works great on IPhone and IPad. The developer is quick to respond if you have an issue. Give it a try - you won’t be disappointed.

Not bad

Not bad, has lot of integration, no widget so only 3 stars

Fast response time!

This app is SO much faster to get the job done. The native Android app to control my lights takes too many steps. This app fires up immediately and controls my lights with very little delay.

This app is a game changer for harmony hub

I just got a harmony hub and was horrified when I opened the app and saw the layouts for my devices. Thank you for providing a device remote app that actually look like a remote and not a jumbled mess with misspellings.

Great Product

This works great with hubitat, so much that I have retired the dashboards for now and use the home remote. The only thing would be nice if you have Z-wave lights that where turned on manually at the switch you could send out a API call to update all Z-wave lights to show there new state.. I did this on hubitat dashboards that when you enter a Dashboard with Z-wave lights it would use http field to do the API request. Just nice thing to have.

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excellent

please can you add support broadlink universal remote

Well this doesn’t work at all

If you have ewelink don’t bother with this app does not work with it at all.

Works superb

So fast to initialize and config and useful app . Thanks

Works on iOS 9.3.5!

Hard to find something that works with smart life app!

Great solution

This works for me, because I can easily share my setup with the family.

Great connection

This is so easy to use. Linked all my devices without any problems!
Try it, you won’t be disappointed.