Home Assistant

Name: Home Assistant
Rating: 4.044199 (13293 reviews)
Author: Open Home Foundation (OHF)

By: Open Home Foundation (OHF) App

The official app for Home Assistant. Control your home anywhere in the world.

Overview

Google Play Store

Downloads

4,687,533 ▲ 30.95K

Data as of 2026-08-23

Rating:

4.04 ▼ 0.03

(13,293)

Version:

2026.6.5-full

Last updated: 2026-06-22

House and home (Free)

Features & Capabilities

The Home Assistant Companion app is your gateway to managing and automating your smart home remotely with maximum privacy and control. Compatible with thousands of smart devices including Philips Hue, Google Home, Sonos, and Apple HomeKit, this app allows seamless integration and automation to make your home smarter and more sustainable. You can automate routines like dimming lights when watching a movie or turning off heating when away, while keeping your data privately stored locally.

Features include support for open standards like Z-Wave, Zigbee, Matter, and Thread, notifications for home events, Android Auto and Wear OS compatibility, customizable widgets, and voice assistant control. With secure remote access via Home Assistant Cloud and extensive device compatibility, over one million users trust Home Assistant to empower their home automation experience securely and efficiently.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Home Automation

By:

Open Home Foundation (OHF)

Downloads:

4,687,533 30.95K

Rating:

4.04

(13,293) 0.03

Version:

2026.6.5-full Last updated: 2026-06-22

Version code:

22884

Creation date:

2019-11-12

Publisher country:

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.CALL_PHONE Very high risk
android.permission.CAMERA Very high risk
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE Very high risk
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE Very high risk
android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO Very high risk
android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION High risk
android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS High risk

Size:

92.32MB

Email:

an*****@home-assistant.io

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-23

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 25,229 ▲ 43

Other rankings

#29 in House and home (Free) ▲ 1

#80 in Android wear (Free) ▲ 6

#5 in assistant keyword 49 ▲ 2

#5 in home keyword 29 ▼ 2

#19 in automation keyword 39 ▲ 7

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Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Open Home Foundation (OHF)

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.homeassistant.companion.android

Email:

an*****@home-assistant.io

Website:

https://www.home-assistant.io

User Reviews

Users praise Home Assistant for its feature-rich, essential role in managing smart homes, but report widespread connectivity and UI reliability problems. Core complaints center on flaky connections, VPN/tunnel access issues, and update-induced regressions that slow or crash the app. Notifications can be noisy or unreliable. A subset of reviews highlights strong cross-platform appeal and handy features, but ongoing stability concerns dominate the consensus.

Pros

Very useful and essential for Home Assistant management; many users say they love the app and rely on it.
Feature-rich with broad capabilities that users appreciate.
Cross‑platform accessibility (Android and iOS) with easy portal access.

Cons

Frequent connectivity problems: app often fails to connect, shows page not available, or requires re‑login when networks or VPNs change.
UI/UX performance issues: unresponsiveness, lag, and controls getting stuck; updates sometimes regress usability.
VPN/remote access compatibility problems: VPN blocks access, Nabucasa/Cloudflare tunnel issues.
Notification reliability: notifications are unreliable or overly noisy.
Update-induced instability: new releases cause crashes, white screens, or other instability.