Comparison

Home Assistant vs nymea

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Home Assistant

Control your entire smart home from one app, locally and privately. Automate devices, receive notifications, and manage your home's data securely. Integrates with thousands of smart devices and open standards.

Highlights
  • Control entire home from one app
  • Discover and configure new devices
  • Automate device actions
  • Local data privacy
  • Connect to open standards (Z-Wave, Zigbee, Matter)
  • Remote access via Home Assistant Cloud
  • Location-based automation
Features
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The Home Assistant Companion app allows you to access your Home Assistant instance on the go. Home Assistant is the smart home solution focused on privacy, choice, and sustainability. It runs locally in your home via a device like the Home Assistant Green or Raspberry Pi. This app connects to all the most powerful features of Home Assistant, - One app to control the whole home - Home Assistant is compatible with the biggest brands in the smart home, connecting to thousands of smart devices and services. - Discover automatically and quickly configure new devices - such as Philips Hue, Sonos, and IKEA Tradfri. - Automate everything - Make all the devices in your home work in harmony - have your lights dim when you start watching a movie, or turn off your heat when you’re away from home. - Keep your home’s data in the home - use it privately to see past trends and averages. - Connect to open standards with hardware add-ons - including Z-Wave, Zigbee, Matter, Thread, and Bluetooth. - Connect anywhere - If you would like to access this app while away from home, the most secure and simple way to get started is Home Assistant Cloud. The app unlocks your smartphone or tablet as a home automation tool. - Securely share your location, using it to automate heating, security, and so much more. - Get notifications on what's happening in your home, from detecting leaks to doors left open, you have full control over what it tells you. - Carplay functionality lets you open a garage or disable the security system from the dash of your car. - Build your own widgets to control any device in your home with a tap. - Integrate Home Assistant's functionality into Shortcuts, for example have your phone’s morning alarm turn on the coffee machine. - Apple Watch compatibility can show your home's temperature on a watch face or quickly activate devices. - Text or talk to your local voice assistant on your device. - Mac compatibility allows you to control your home from your desktop, but also to share data to build automation, like having your streaming lights turn on when your camera is active. Join the over 1 million users and empower your home with better privacy, choice and sustainability. Compatible with: Airthings, Amazon Alexa, Amcrest, Apple HomeKit, Apple TV, ASUSWRT, August, Belink WeMo, Bluetooth, Bose SoundTouch, Broadlink, BTHome, deCONZ, Denon, Devolo, DLNA, Ecobee, Ecovacs, Ecowitt, Elgato, EZVIZ, Fritz, Fully Kiosk, GoodWe, Govee, Growatt, Hikvision, Hive, Home Connect, Homematic, HomeWizard, Honeywell, iCloud, IFTTT, IKEA Tradfri, Insteon, Jellyfin, LG Smart TVs, LIFX, Logitech Harmony, Lutron Caseta, Magic Home, Matter, MotionEye, MQTT, MusicCast, Nanoleaf, Netatmo, Nuki, OctoPrint, ONVIF, Opower, Overkiz, OwnTracks, Panasonic Viera, Philips Hue, Pi-hole, Plex, Reolink, Ring, Roborock, Roku, Samsung TVs, Sense, Sensiba, Shelly, SmartThings, SolarEdge, Sonarr, Sonos, Sony Bravia, Spotify, Steam, SwitchBot, Synology, Tado, Tasmota, Tesla Wall, Thread, Tile, TP-Link Smart Home, Tuya, UniFi, UPnP, Verisure, Vizio, Wallbox, WebRTC, WiZ, WLED, Xbox, Xiaomi BLE, Yale, Yeelight, YoLink, Z-Wave, Zigbe

About

nymea

This application connects and controls smart devices and services within a smart home ecosystem. It allows users to configure and manage various connected products, create custom scenes, and automate behaviors for their environment. The platform supports integration with a wide range of smart devices and services.

Highlights
  • Connect smart devices and services
  • Configure and control IoT functionality
  • Create custom scenes and behaviors
  • Supports Raspberry Pi and GNU/Linux
  • Open-source with developer documentation
  • Remote access via optional cloud feature
Features
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nymea is a professional IoT platform that allows to link smart devices and services together. The nymea software is used for smart products like smart home gateways, intelligent and connective home appliances, energy control services, asset management applications, sensor data collectors and more. nymea is open source, written in Qt and offers the tools & step-by-step guides for your own device/service integration. nymea consists of 3 parts, nymea:core, nymea:app and nymea:cloud. nymea is running on embedded devices like a Raspberry Pi, or any other GNU/Linux based system, works like a translator for devices and services and allows them to interact with each other. The powerful rule engine allows to connect any available thing in the system and create individual scenes and behaviors for your environment. nymea:app is a frontend application for nymea:core. It allows to configure and control all functionality of nymea:core. nymea:cloud is an optional feature to enable remote access to nymea:core from anywhere, allows sending Push Notifications to mobile devices and other services requiring online connectivity. The open-source community image comes with plugins like: - Philips Hue - Elgato Smart Lights - Netatmo - Pushbullet - Kodi - LG Smart TV - Open Weather Map - Serial Port devices - and more Get the nymea image, install instructions, user guides, source code and developer documentation on https://nymea.io

Screenshots

Home Assistant4 screens
nymea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Home Assistant at 4K against nymea's 1. Home Assistant also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). nymea's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

nymea holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Home Assistant has 4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Home Assistant ships an update every 10 days, nymea every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Home Assistant versus nymea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHome Assistantnymea
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNabu Casa, Incchargebyte austria GmbH

Customer experience

Home Assistant

All ratings4,010 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews514 reviews
Positive54.3%
Neutral8.6%
Negative37.2%

nymea

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Home Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

nymea

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Home Assistant free?
Home Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is nymea free?
nymea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Home Assistant or nymea?
nymea is rated higher. Home Assistant averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while nymea averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Home Assistant or nymea have ads?
Neither Home Assistant nor nymea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Home Assistant or nymea?
Home Assistant ships an update every 10 days, and nymea every 2 months. Most recently, Home Assistant was updated on October 29, 2026 and nymea on October 5, 2026.

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