Comparison

Homerise vs Dawnboard

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

Head to head
About

Homerise

Control your smart home devices with intuitive gestures and spatial widgets. Visualize and manage your home's accessories through interactive floor plans and augmented reality.

Highlights
  • Spatial widgets with persistent placement
  • Wrist control with room awareness
  • Customizable dashboard
  • Interactive floor plan view
  • Augmented reality remote control
  • Preset configurations for scenes
Features
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Homerise leverages HomeKit to provide intuitive and expressive ways to control your smart home. IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Bring your smart home to life on Vision Pro with the new Immersive Experience! Spatial Widgets - Persistent Placement : Widgets stay exactly where you place them, even after a reboot. - Wall Snapping: Widgets feel like they’re truly part of your space. - Wall Occlusion & Proximity Activation: Widgets automatically hide or minimize to keep your field of view clear. Wrist Control - Seamless control: Lift your left wrist and control your smart home, just like in your favourite Sci-Fi! - Room Awareness: Walk into another room and the controls adapt automatically. DASHBOARD An overview of your entire home and fine control over your accessories! Build your ideal dashboard with a wide variety of customizable widgets. FLOOR PLAN Add markers and widgets to the floor plan of your home and easily interact with your devices. Choose which markers and widgets are shown according to the zoom level, this way you can seamlessly go from controlling a single device, room by room, up to your entire home. AR REMOTE Place markers in Augmented Reality in your actual living space and then interact with them just by pointing with your phone like a remote control. Magical! Here you can tap and swipe, but also tilt your phone to control your accessories. Naturally, you can also customize the actions behind each gesture. PRESETS Create templates of your favorite configurations and reuse them easily throughout the app in markers and scenes. With lighting presets you can easily create a colorful palette from a picture and set a lighting ambiance with just a tap :) Homerise main goal is to enhance the way you interact with your smart home. Privacy policy: https://www.homerise.app/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.homerise.app/terms

About

Dawnboard

Transform your Apple TV into a dynamic dashboard. Customize layouts, themes, and widgets like calendars, photos, and music playlists. Control it all from your iPhone for a personalized viewing experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable layouts and themes
  • Widget support (calendar, photos, music)
  • iPhone remote control
  • Animated themes
  • OLED burn-in protection
  • Countdown timers
  • Visual effects
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Dawnboard turns your Apple TV into a dashboard for the things you want to keep in view. Set it up on your iPhone, then send changes to the TV over your local network. Dawnboard is free to use. Layouts and themes Choose from six layouts: Gallery Hero, Triple Portrait, Quad Square, Mixed Gallery, Cinematic, and Ambient. Each layout has slots that you fill with widgets. Dawnboard includes 17 animated themes: New Dawn, Twilight, Ocean Breeze, Aurora, Outer Space, Enchanted Mist, Underwater Kingdom, Winter Wonder, Golden Hour, Valentine, Tiki Paradise, Moss Cathedral, River Canyon, Moss & Rain, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and Spring Blossoms. You can also make a theme with a nine-color gradient. The display includes OLED burn-in protection. Display styles Choose Classic, Cozy, Weather, Day Planner, Countdown, or Minimal to control what appears in the header and footer. Widgets Add countdowns, calendar events, weather, lists, photo albums, or an Apple Music playlist to any compatible slot. Calendar Import events from Apple Calendar on your iPhone. Eight agenda and month views preserve your calendar colors, and you can choose whether to show locations and past events. Photos An album can hold up to 25 images. Vision-based auto-cropping handles landscape, portrait, square, and cinematic formats, with a separate crop for each format. Albums play as a crossfade slideshow on the TV. Countdowns Create a countdown with its own image. Dawnboard can send a daily reminder and another reminder on the day before the event. Effects Trigger Pixie Dust, Shooting Stars, Sparkles, Fireworks, Confetti, or Lanterns from the Command Center on your iPhone. Fireworks has eight show patterns. You can also leave the pixie sprite running and adjust the effect intensity. Apple Music Assign a playlist to each paired Apple TV and control playback from the TV remote. Pairing and sync Scan the QR code on the TV to pair it with your iPhone. Changes normally appear in under a second over Wi-Fi. You can manage more than one TV and give each one a different layout and theme. Privacy Dawnboard does not require a separate account and does not contain ads. Your data stays in your private iCloud account, and local network sync is encrypted. The iPhone and Apple TV can use different iCloud accounts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dawnboard.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Homerise2 screens
Dawnboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dawnboard at none against Homerise's 13. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Homerise sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Dawnboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Homerise against 4.5 for Dawnboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Homerise ships an update every 3 weeks, Dawnboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Homerise versus Dawnboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeriseDawnboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, Apple TV
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMATTERFUL STUDIOSMoxiebytes LLC

Customer experience

Homerise

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Dawnboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Homerise

Subscriptions4
  • Subscription small pack1 Month trial$1.991 Year
  • Subscription medium pack1 Month trial$3.991 Year
  • Subscription large pack1 Month trial$5.991 Year
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  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time4
  • Lifetime small pack5 variants$9.99
  • Lifetime medium pack2 variants$19.99
  • Lifetime large pack$29.99
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  • Lifetime$29.99
None

Dawnboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Homerise free?
Homerise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dawnboard free?
Dawnboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Homerise or Dawnboard?
Homerise is rated higher. Homerise averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Dawnboard averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Homerise or Dawnboard have ads?
Neither Homerise nor Dawnboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Homerise or Dawnboard?
Homerise ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dawnboard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Homerise was updated on August 1, 2026 and Dawnboard on September 14, 2026.

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