Macro App vs Flux HA Dashboard

Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.

Flux is the most beautiful way to control your smart home with Home Assistant and Apple HomeKit — built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, with the polish of a first-party Apple app. DESIGN DASHBOARDS YOU'LL LOVE • Drag-and-drop builder with a free-form canvas — place anything, anywhere • Per-device layouts: a tailored design for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV • Beautiful tiles: buttons, gauges, thermostats, graphs, cameras, weather, calendar, energy flow, media players, and more • Every widget scales to its tile and never clips — stacks, buttons, gauges, everything, at any size • Bring your home to the big screen — a dedicated Apple TV app that mirrors your dashboards exactly, navigable with the Siri Remote START FROM YOUR HOME ASSISTANT DASHBOARDS • Import any Lovelace dashboard — even the auto-generated Overview — as native Flux widgets, laid out for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV • Rooms: one page per area, built in a tap • Refresh from Home Assistant keeps your arrangement and only touches what it created • Export a dashboard as a file to share it; import one as a new dashboard DRAW YOUR HOME — FLOOR PLANS • Sketch your actual floor plan with walls, doors, windows and rooms — crisp, to-scale vector drawing • Furnish it from a library of objects — beds, sofas, tubs, vehicles and more — rotate, stretch and place freely • Set it as a live dashboard backdrop and lay your controls right where they live LIVING ARTWORK • A library of premium SVG objects — lamps, fans, appliances, vehicles, tanks and more • Map them to your entities so they come alive: lights glow in their real color, fans and washers spin when running, thermometers fill with temperature, tanks show their level • Import your own SVGs and wire them up in seconds CONTROL EVERYTHING • Full light control: brightness, color and effects for RGB/WRGB bulbs • Smart thermostats with multiple designs and instant, optimistic response • Inline brightness, volume and cover sliders right on a tile • Live camera feeds and camera walls, media players, covers, locks — every Home Assistant domain • A clear banner whenever Home Assistant rejects a command MUSIC, EVERYWHERE • Play Apple Music straight from your device and send it across your speakers with AirPlay 2 • Multi-room grouping with per-speaker volume, shuffle, repeat and up-next queue • Album art, scrubbing and living visualizers that dance to the beat SMARTER HELPERS & WEATHER • Build virtual devices that combine and calculate — group entities, sum, average, threshold and more — in plain language, no YAML • Apple Weather built in: full daily and hourly forecasts with the metrics you choose AUTOMATIONS, MADE SIMPLE — AND POWERFUL • A visual "When → Only if → Do" builder that reads like plain English • Branch with Cases: do different things in different situations • Test any automation, watch it run, and trace exactly where it succeeded or failed • Saved as real Home Assistant automations • Let Home Assistant drive Flux: flux_set_page switches any screen to a dashboard or page, flux_notify posts a banner on every Flux screen PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Connects directly to YOUR Home Assistant — local network or Nabu Casa • No middle-man cloud, no account required — your data stays yours • Full metric/imperial unit conversion for every value Make your smart home look as good as it works. Home Assistant is a trademark of the Open Home Foundation. Flux is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Open Home Foundation.