What does it work with?

Apple Home, Google Home, and SmartThings appear in the unified dashboard. Home Watch monitoring also covers gear like Sonos, Hue, Lutron, and eero on your network. Flo by Moen connects for live water telemetry and valve control.

What is free, and what is paid?

Six tools are free forever with no account: Thread Network, Protocol Breakdown, Room Planner, Device Lifespan, ISP Alerts, and Pair Vault. The Home Hub shows your Apple Home devices free; connecting Google Home and SmartThings into the one deduped list comes with Network Intelligence. Four power tools are one-time purchases: Network Intelligence, Home Watch, Pair Vault Premium, and Energy Insights. The bundle is $14.99 for everything, and every paid tool starts with a 7-day free trial.

What can the app see?

Only what your phone can already see on your own network, and it stays on the phone. No account, no server, no data sold. The privacy label on the App Store says the same thing.

Purchases go through Apple, so refunds do too: report a problem at apple.com/support and Apple handles it directly.

Smart Home Life

It sees your whole home. Now it runs it.

Name: Smart Home Life: Tested
Author: Anthony Harmond

Apple Home, Google Home, and SmartThings in one app, deduped into a single list. See every device, then actually control it: lights, scenes, locks with Face ID, the garage, thermostats, even Philips Hue. One home, one app.

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189 devices tested$0 gifted, ever40+ automations

New · Console

Your home, sized for the room you're in.

Glance at it on your phone. Stand it on the counter as a wall display. Let it settle into a calm night face that wakes when you walk past. One app, three states.

Free glance tiles built in. Console $7.99 unlocks live camera, energy, vehicle and appliance tiles, custom boards, and the wall and night faces. Included in the bundle.

Not just a dashboard. A remote for the whole house.

For two years this app only watched. Now it acts. Tap a tile and it does the thing, across every ecosystem you own.

Lights and scenes

Dim, color, or run a whole scene in one tap. Hue direct, plus HomeKit and SmartThings.

Locks and garage

Lock up and close the garage behind a Face ID confirm. No accidental taps.

Climate

Set the temperature and mode from the same screen you check it on.

One deduped home

Devices on two platforms show once, not twice. The list finally matches your house.

What's new

A lot landed this release.

Ambient Apple Music

A full-screen now-playing wall face with album art and live controls. Open straight into Apple Music for lyrics.

Philips Hue, direct

Local control of every Hue light and scene, a live event stream, and Sync Box for your TV. No extra hub trip.

Appliance timers

Live Activities count down your washer, dryer, and oven from the Lock Screen.

Bandwidth check

A free speed test that tells you what your internet means for your cameras, not just a number.

CarPlay

Arrive-home and leave-home tiles, plus a home status glance, sized for the dash.

Ask your home

Ask "what's running right now?" in plain language and get a real answer, built from your live device state, on device.

Energy, its own tab

A rate clock that counts down to off-peak, live usage, grid status, and a plan picker that shows your savings.

Always free

Six tools. No account. No paywall.

Free forever, not free-for-now. No sign-up, no trial clock.

Thread Network

Map your Thread mesh and border routers.

Device Layers

Every device by protocol: HomeKit, Thread, Matter, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.

Room Planner

See coverage room by room.

Device Lifespan

Track aging devices before they fail.

ISP Alerts

Know if it's your network or your provider, in seconds.

Pair Vault

Store HomeKit and Matter codes behind Face ID.

Pricing

Pay once. No subscription.

Buy a tool and it's yours. Nothing renews. Every paid tool starts with a 7-day free trial.

Network Intelligence$12.99Identify every device, full ecosystem breakdown, Sonos control, and the synced Integrations view.Unlocks 10 guides

Home Watch$2.99Background offline alerts, uptime and battery tracking, and notification rules.Unlocks 5 guides

Console$7.99Live tiles, custom boards, and the wall and night faces for your iPad or iPhone.Wall + night modes

Pair Vault Premium$2.99QR code regeneration and export. Scanning and storing codes is free.Unlocks 3 guides

Energy Insights$3.99Rate clock, cost tracking, and the plan picker with your savings.

All Tools Bundle

Everything: Network Intelligence, Home Watch, Console, Pair Vault Premium, Energy Insights, and all 13 setup guides.

Saves almost $11 vs buying separately

$19.99

Get the bundle

7-day free trial on the paid tools. The six network tools above stay free with no account, forever.

Questions

The honest answers.

What's free, and what's paid?

Six tools are free forever with no account: Thread Network, Device Layers, Room Planner, Device Lifespan, ISP Alerts, and Pair Vault. Your Apple Home devices show free; pulling Google Home and SmartThings into one deduped list comes with Network Intelligence. Five power tools are one-time purchases: Network Intelligence, Home Watch, Console, Pair Vault Premium, and Energy Insights. The bundle is $19.99 for all of it, and every paid tool starts with a 7-day free trial.

Is there a subscription?

No. You buy a tool once and own it. Nothing renews, nothing expires.

Does it actually control my devices?

Yes. Lights, scenes, locks and the garage (behind Face ID), thermostats, and Philips Hue, across Apple Home, Google Home, and SmartThings. It used to only watch. Now it runs the house.

What is Console?

A dashboard mode that scales to where you are: a glance on your phone, a calm wall board on the counter, and a true-black night face that wakes on motion. Free glance tiles are built in; $7.99 unlocks the live tiles, custom boards, and the wall and night faces.

Who builds this?

One person, Anthony, who bought all 189 devices with his own money. Zero gifted, zero paid. If it fails in my home, it leaves the list.

Smart Home Life. One home, one app.