Comparison

HDashboards vs APEXpulse Battery Control

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

Head to head
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.

About

APEXpulse Battery Control

Features
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Know exactly what your Marstek Venus E battery is doing. APEXpulse gives you real-time monitoring, detailed diagnostics, historical insights, and direct control over your battery. Go beyond the basic numbers to understand how your battery is performing, spot potential problems early, and take control of how and when it charges. • Monitor live battery and AC power, state of charge, backup power, electrical data, and system status • Follow live trends with mini graphs throughout the battery overview • Track battery vitality, including temperatures, cell balance, cycle count, and real-time efficiency • Inspect all 16 battery cells individually and quickly spot weak or imbalanced cells • Explore detailed historical graphs for power, voltage, current, frequency, temperatures, cell balance, and more • Control charging, discharging, state of charge targets, backup power, and power limits directly from the app • Create and manage charge and discharge schedules with an intuitive visual editor • Review pending control changes before writing them to your battery • Manage multiple batteries from one place • Learn what the numbers mean with built-in explanations and battery diagnostics • Use APEXpulse in English, Dutch, or German Built for Marstek Venus E 3.0 batteries using Modbus TCP. Whether you want a quick look at what your battery is doing right now or a deeper understanding of its performance and health, APEXpulse puts the information and controls in one place. APEXpulse is an independent application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Marstek Energy Co.

Screenshots

HDashboards4 screens
APEXpulse Battery Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HDashboards at none against APEXpulse Battery Control's 1. HDashboards also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. APEXpulse Battery Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HDashboards asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HDashboards ships an update fortnightly, APEXpulse Battery Control every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
HDashboards versus APEXpulse Battery Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHDashboardsAPEXpulse Battery Control
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMenno van HoutAPEXone bv

In-app purchases

None

HDashboards

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

APEXpulse Battery Control

One-time1
  • APEXpulse Pro Unlock$12.99

Questions

Is HDashboards free?
HDashboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is APEXpulse Battery Control free?
APEXpulse Battery Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HDashboards or APEXpulse Battery Control have ads?
Neither HDashboards nor APEXpulse Battery Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HDashboards or APEXpulse Battery Control?
HDashboards ships an update fortnightly, and APEXpulse Battery Control every 8 days. Most recently, HDashboards was updated on November 7, 2026 and APEXpulse Battery Control on October 28, 2026.

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