Comparison

Flux HA Dashboard vs Orbit Dashboard

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

Head to head
About

Flux HA Dashboard

Control your smart home with beautiful, customizable dashboards. Design floor plans, add interactive objects, and manage devices like lights, thermostats, and media players. Automate your home with a visual builder and enjoy a private, local connection to your Home Assistant.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop dashboard builder
  • Customizable device layouts
  • Interactive floor plan design
  • Living artwork with SVG objects
  • Full smart device control
  • Multi-room audio playback
  • Visual automation builder
Features
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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.

About

Orbit Dashboard

Features
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Orbit brings your whole life onto one dashboard. Instead of hopping between ten apps to see what matters, Orbit overlays your calendar, reminders, health, weather, people, money, and more onto a single Today screen — then surfaces what actually needs you. ONE DASHBOARD, EVERY HORIZON Switch between Today, This Week, This Month, and This Year to see what's coming — an appointment weeks out, a bill due, a birthday — across every area at once. CAPTURE ANYTHING, INSTANTLY One box. Type or dictate, and Orbit's on-device AI files it as a task, note, idea, quote, or person. No folders, no friction. ASK ORBIT A private, on-device assistant that answers from your own data, plus a daily summary of your day. ORBIT NOTICED Insights that connect two parts of your life no single app sees — a birthday during a busy week, poor sleep before a demanding day, a bill due while you're traveling. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE • Calendar & Reminders — your events and lists, with inline complete • Health — activity rings, steps, heart rate, and sleep • Weather — current conditions, forecast, and threshold alerts • People — birthdays, important dates, and who to reconnect with • Money — App Store sales, a stock watchlist, a retirement forecast, and bills • Projects, Content, Travel, Garage, Journal, Library, Email, Deliveries, and more WIDGETS EVERYWHERE One configurable Orbit widget in every size — Home Screen and Lock Screen. Pick what it shows, check off reminders and routines without opening the app, and it follows your theme in Light and Dark. WORKS WITH APPLE Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, Handoff, and interactive widgets — no setup. Just say "Hey Siri, capture in Orbit." BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, synced over your private iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There's no Orbit account and no Orbit server. What you create stays on your device and in your private iCloud. Capture cleanup and Ask Orbit run on-device with Apple Intelligence. Only a coarse location ever leaves your device — and only to fetch the weather. Available in English and Spanish. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ericrogerstechnology.com/Orbit/PRIVACY.html

Screenshots

Flux HA Dashboard4 screens
Orbit Dashboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Orbit Dashboard at Free against Flux HA Dashboard's $9.99. Orbit Dashboard also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Flux HA Dashboard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

Orbit Dashboard is free to download; Flux HA Dashboard costs $9.99 up front. Orbit Dashboard sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Flux HA Dashboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flux HA Dashboard ships an update weekly, Orbit Dashboard every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flux HA Dashboard versus Orbit Dashboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlux HA DashboardOrbit Dashboard
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKathryn HaltermanEric Rogers

In-app purchases

None

Flux HA Dashboard

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Orbit Dashboard

Subscriptions2
  • Orbit Plus — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Orbit Plus — Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Orbit Plus — Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Flux HA Dashboard free?
Flux HA Dashboard costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit Dashboard free?
Orbit Dashboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flux HA Dashboard or Orbit Dashboard have ads?
Neither Flux HA Dashboard nor Orbit Dashboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flux HA Dashboard or Orbit Dashboard?
Flux HA Dashboard ships an update weekly, and Orbit Dashboard every 6 days. Most recently, Flux HA Dashboard was updated on September 18, 2026 and Orbit Dashboard on September 30, 2026.

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