Comparison

dS Smart Home vs HDashboards

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

Head to head
About

dS Smart Home

Control your smart home devices, including lighting, shading, and music, with this intuitive application. Monitor energy consumption, weather, and alarms. Easily manage rooms, create custom scenarios, and adjust settings for a more comfortable living environment.

Highlights
  • Device control (light, shading, music)
  • Energy consumption monitoring
  • Weather and climate readings
  • Custom scenario creation
  • Room and device management
  • SONOS speaker control
  • Heating control
Features
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• Simple and convenient The new dS Smart Home is the perfect app for the perfect smart home. Setting up and operating your digitalSTROM Smart Home has never been easier and more convenient. Whether light, shading or music - the app offers everything you need to make your life easier and more comfortable. • Clear structure The app has four tabs (Favorites, Cockpit, Rooms, Settings) that help you to quickly switch between different features: • Favorites: In the Favorites the most important scenarios of the whole flat are displayed. And you can add your personal favorites. These can be scenarios from the rooms, individual devices or user-defined actions. • Cockpit: the cockpit shows the current energy consumption and that of the last 7 days, weather and climate readings, current alarms and warnings, and user-defined states. In the detailed view of energy consumption, the individual circuits are displayed to the second. The climate data details show the temperature and humidity readings from the past days and weeks.. • Room overview: All rooms (including scenarios, devices and buttons) of your digitalSTROM Smart Home are displayed in the room overview and can be operated directly. • Settings: In the settings you can add further installations (for example your holiday home) and have direct access to the tutorials or the help page. • Custom actions Add custom actions to your favorites and retrieve them at any time. • Create and edit scenarios New scenarios can be easily and conveniently created and existing scenarios can be adjusted or deleted as needed. • Control of the SONOS speakers All SONOS speakers integrated into your digitalSTROM Smart Home can be operated via scenarios or the Play-Pause-function and the volume can be adjusted. • Overview of rooms, scenarios and devices Check the different measured values (e.g. temperature or humidity) and the current state of scenarios and all devices for "light" and "shading" for every room of your digitalSTROM Smart Home. Any changes made are displayed in the app immediately. • Make temporary settings Adjust the current brightness or color of lights and the position of shutters, blinds or awnings at any time easily. With a long click (3D-Touch) on a scenario or device you can open the temporary settings and make adjustments. • Control your heating Check the current temperature in the rooms, choose between Comfort and Eco mode in each room and set the desired temperature for each mode and room. • Assignment of buttons Try out how the various clicks on your light and shading buttons work and adapt the displayed scenarios to suit your requirements. • The home at a glance In the cockpit you will find information on current alarms and weather warnings, the user-defined states as well as the current energy consumption in your home.

About

HDashboards

Create personalized control panels for your smart home devices. Customize layouts with various tile types, colors, and actions. Integrate with AI assistants to build dashboards using natural language descriptions.

Highlights
  • Customizable tile layouts
  • 20+ card types
  • Flow control and notifications
  • User logins and permissions
  • AI-assisted dashboard creation
  • Web view and custom HTML cards
Features
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HDashboards turns your Homey into a beautiful dashboard that's entirely yours. Control your lights, keep an eye on your energy use, check the weather and start flows, all from one screen on your iPhone, your iPad, a tablet on the wall or any web browser. YOUR LAYOUT, YOUR WAY • Drag, drop and resize every tile • Choose from 20+ card types: devices, flows, speakers, weather and forecasts, gauges, Insights graphs, clocks, titles and more • Give each card your own colors, icons and tap actions • Make a dashboard for every room, every screen and every person MADE FOR HOMEY FLOW • Start any flow with a single tap • Run flows when someone presses a card • With the HDashboards companion app for Homey, your flows can send notifications to your dashboards, recolor cards and open dashboards A LOGIN FOR EVERYONE • Give everyone in your home their own login • Choose per dashboard who can view, use, edit or share it • Give the kids the lights, not the front door MISSING A CARD? BUILD YOUR OWN The webview card shows any web page, or a few lines of your own HTML. Add a chart, a camera stream or anything else you can build for the web. JUST DESCRIBE IT Connect HDashboards to Claude, ChatGPT or any other AI assistant that supports MCP. Describe the dashboard you want, and watch it build itself on your screen. WORKS ON ALMOST EVERY SCREEN • iPhone and iPad • Any web browser • Wall-mounted tablets, with the top bar hidden for a clean, full-screen display • Smart displays, through a secure sign-in link More than four years in development, and we're only getting started. New features arrive regularly, many of them suggested by people who use HDashboards every day. HDashboards requires a Homey. HDashboards is an independent app and is not affiliated with Athom B.V., the maker of Homey.

Screenshots

dS Smart Home4 screens
HDashboards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HDashboards at 100% against dS Smart Home's 33%. HDashboards also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dS Smart Home ships an update every 2 months, HDashboards fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
dS Smart Home versus HDashboards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdS Smart HomeHDashboards
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdigitalSTROM AGMenno van Hout

Customer experience

dS Smart Home

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

HDashboards

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

dS Smart Home

No in-app purchases

None

HDashboards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dS Smart Home free?
dS Smart Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HDashboards free?
HDashboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do dS Smart Home or HDashboards have ads?
Neither dS Smart Home nor HDashboards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, dS Smart Home or HDashboards?
dS Smart Home ships an update every 2 months, and HDashboards fortnightly. Most recently, dS Smart Home was updated on November 2, 2026 and HDashboards on November 7, 2026.

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