HomeSnap - Home Backups & Logs

HomeSnap is the historian for your HomeKit home. It captures what your home looked like yesterday, tells you what changed today, streams what's happening right now, and offers a private web dashboard you can pull up from any device on your Wi-Fi.

Three things. All read-only. All on-device.

SNAPSHOTS HomeSnap quietly snapshots your entire HomeKit setup once a day (or whenever you want) and compares each new capture to the last. You'll know exactly when an accessory was added, removed, renamed, or moved; when a room was created; when an automation was enabled or disabled; when a scene was modified; when a device went offline. Every difference is color-coded, grouped by date, and searchable in a timeline.

EVENT LOG Subscribe to live HomeKit characteristic changes and capture a stream of what's actually happening: lights turning on, motion sensors firing, doors opening, locks engaging, buttons being pressed.

Two capture modes:

• Lite: the events that matter. Lights, locks, doors, sensors, button presses. Skips ambient readings like temperature and battery.
• Full: every notify-able characteristic. More complete, noisier, more battery.

Filter by room, category, or accessory. Search the log. Export to Markdown. Tap any device to see its scenes, automations, and full event history.

ALWAYS-ON MODE Dedicate an old iPhone or iPad or Mac on a charger for continuous HomeKit recording. Always-On Mode keeps the screen awake while logging. Pairs well with iOS Guided Access for a kiosk-style setup.

WEB DASHBOARD Flip on "Local Web Dashboard" in Settings and any laptop or phone on the same Wi-Fi can open a clean, light dashboard:

• Live KPIs: events this hour, today, most active device, most active room
• Activity heatmap showing when your home is busy
• Charts: events over time, by category, by room, top accessories
• Live event feed streaming via WebSocket
• Per-accessory drill-in showing every scene and automation it appears in
• Per-room view listing accessories, scenes, automations, and activity
• Downloadable JSON, Markdown summary, change history, and event log

Read-only. Served on the local network only (Bonjour-discoverable at homesnap.local, with an IP fallback). Optional password.

EXPORTS Home Summary (Markdown), Change History (Markdown), Event Log (Markdown), and a full JSON snapshot. Share-sheet on iOS or one-click download from the web dashboard.

PRIVACY HomeSnap is strictly read-only. It cannot toggle accessories, run scenes, or modify any HomeKit configuration. All data stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics, no tracking. The web dashboard runs on your LAN only. The optional Notify by Pingie integration is the only feature that contacts an external server, and only when you explicitly enable it.

Built for anyone who manages a HomeKit home and wants visibility into how their setup evolves over time.