Comparison

Hihome Smart vs HDashboards

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

Head to head
About

Hihome Smart

Effortlessly manage your smart home devices remotely. Control lights, set schedules, and share access with family. Voice control integration with popular assistants makes managing your home simpler than ever.

Highlights
  • Remote device control
  • Multiple device management
  • Timer and schedule settings
  • Family device sharing
  • Voice assistant integration
  • iOS Widget support
Features
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With the Hihome App you can easily set up your Smart Home. 1. Control devices and lamps remotely 2. Control multiple devices 3. Set a timer or time schedule 4. Share devices within your family 5. Easy and fast connection between your Hihome devices 6. Use Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa or Siri to control your devices by voice. 7. Apple iOS Widget support

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

Hihome Smart4 screens
HDashboards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HDashboards at fortnightly against Hihome Smart's every 7 months. Hihome Smart's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hihome Smart versus HDashboards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHihome SmartHDashboards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAt Home Technologies BVMenno van Hout

Customer experience

Hihome Smart

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HDashboards

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

In-app purchases

None

Hihome Smart

No in-app purchases

None

HDashboards

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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